EP234 Ten tips for making sure data meetings are actually useful (with Melissa Forbes)
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Inefficient, unproductive meetings can drain so much energy. If you find that meetings to discuss student progress always turn into complaining and defeatist rants...here's help.
You can make necessary meetings less painful and perhaps even valuable.
Fellow teacher Mellissa Forbes has some really practical tips and mindset shifts to help you. We'll talk about what to do before data meetings, during, and after to ensure they're a better use of your time.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 234 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. |
| 0:07.3 | I'm your host Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement and truth into |
| 0:12.7 | the minds and hearts of educators and get you energized for the week ahead. |
| 0:17.0 | Today, we're talking about how to not only survive data meetings, but thrive and make |
| 0:22.6 | them genuinely useful for your practice. |
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