In this episode Joellen Killion joins the podcast and talks about what impactful feedback could look like as a practice as well as what it could look like in the age of AI.
Joellen's Book on Feedback (link)
About Joellen
Joellen Killion champions educator learning as the primary pathway to student success. She serves school systems, schools, regional, state, and national agencies within the U.S. and abroad as a consultant and learning facilitator. She is senior advisor to Learning Forward and formerly was its deputy executive director. Joellen leads, facilitates, and contributes to a number of initiatives related to examining the link among curriculum; leadership; quality instruction; professional development; and student learning. She has over 30 years of experience in curriculum development and implementation and planning, design, implementation, and evaluation of professional learning at the school, system, state, national, and international level. She was the recipient of the Don Deshler Leadership Award and the Adams County District 12 Merit Award. She serves on the advisory board for the Association for the Advancement of Instructional Coaching in International Schools and is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal on Mentoring and Coaching in Education.
Joellen is a frequent contributor to education publications. Her books include What Works in the Middle; What Works in the Elementary Grades;, and What Works in the High School; Teachers Who Learn Kids Who Achieve: A Look at Model Professional Development; Assessing Impact: Evaluating Professional Learning, 3rd edition; Collaborative Professional Learning Teams in School and Beyond: A Tool Kit for New Jersey Educators; Taking the Lead: New Roles for Teacher and School-based Coaches; The Learning Educator: A New Era in Professional Learning; Becoming a Learning School; Coaching Matters; The Feedback Process: Transforming Feedback for Professional Learning.; and Elevate School-based Professional Learning. She authored and co-authored numerous papers, articles, reports, and workbooks such as PDK’s EDge, The Changing Face of Professional Development; A Systemic Approach to Elevating Teacher Leadership; and resources associated with the Transforming Professional Learning for Common Core Implementation initiative. She serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education. Her particular interests are collaborative learning teams, coaching educator success, evaluation and program audits, standards for professional learning, policy to support professional learning, and comprehensive planning and implementation of high-quality, standards-based, results-focused professional learning.