Tonya Gilchrist

The best professional learning doesn’t fade—it lives.

Tiny Shift No. 11: See learning not as an event, but as a way of being.

When we live what we learn—through our language, our choices, our planning—it sticks.

#just4you #TinyShifts #ProfessionalLearning #TeacherAgency #UDL

An orange moon over Hong Kong last night—after a day of professional learning at Clearwater Bay School.

Today: inside classrooms at @RCHKschool, seeing agency-rich Writers’ Workshop with students.

Research illuminates. Teachers make it live.

#just4you #ibpyp

Arrived in 🇭🇰 just in time for sunset after a delayed journey thru Europe. Grateful to collaborate w/Clearwater Bay School & Renaissance College HK on research-informed literacy.

Tomorrow, we get to work—listening closely, thinking carefully, & learning alongside one another.

Final Tiny Shift of the season!

Real instructional growth doesn’t happen in isolation. It happens together.

Co-planning. Co-teaching. Shared sense-making.
That’s where improvement becomes sustainable.

Tiny Shift No. 16: Improve Together, Not in Isolation #just4you #TinyShifts

Tiny Shift No. 15: Start at the edges, not the center.

#UDL isn’t about adding supports later. It’s about removing barriers before Ss ever hit them.

Low floors. Wide walls. Reinforced corners. High—or no—ceilings.

That’s how learning becomes expansive.

#just4you #TinyShifts