Hi Lara, Just letting you know that I have thoroughly enjoyed the experience of EBO training. It has been challenging (the right amount) and affirming. I particularly liked the coaching for 'cognitive shift' exercise as I experienced a personal/professional...

Hi Lara, It was great to see you at Kempsey Adventist School today. I just wanted to put into writing my thanks and feedback for a PD you ran at my last school, Henderson College, in 2014 (? I I think that was the year) The PD was about Reciprocal Reading strategies...

Hi Lara, I would like to take the opportunity to express my sincere appreciation to you and Dianne for the outstanding two day EBO workshop conducted last Thursday and Friday. You have left us with much to think about as we take steps to implement...

Hi Lara,  The time we spent together learning with our staff was so needed and refreshing. You have left a wonderful footprint for our schools and for that please accept my most sincere gratitude. Many thanks Betty Betty Lakovic Associate Education...

Hi, It was a wonderful day -  I have requested a time slot to share this info at out PD day next Monday. And I have arranged to share this with the parents who come in to help with our reading programme. I used the ......'what you already know' concept when I...

‘EBO is such an observation/coaching method backed up by research. Our head teachers have accepted it as one the best PDs they had that let them view classroom practice from a different perspective. As you learn further about the latest research, you realize that...

Thank you, Lara. Today was the first time I've been EBO'd.  Not confronting at all.  I'll check through your pdf file when I get a chance this evening.  I, too, appreciated the professional conversations that were had; who knew we had it in us 🙂 Roger

Thanks again for such a valuable and exciting PD. I used the approach today team teaching with Remi in my Year 12 class. While it was much slower with the whole class they did seem to engage and connect well with the material we presented. I will certainly be adding...

Evidence Based Observations  have transformed the culture of our school. The programme has opened up classrooms, promoted conversations around data, made teachers more reflective, made deficit theorising unacceptable and teacher goal setting more meaningful. Evidence...

'My initial worries about committing to the EBO process were completely dispelled after my first observation. My EBO coach is exactly that, a coach who is on my side, helping me to use the data collected during the observation to enhance my teaching in a friendly,...