Today’s guest is Marne Gulley, a Secondary Literacy Specialist for Denver Public Schools.  Previously, Marne served as a Peer Observer in DPS after working as a High School English teacher.

In our conversation, Marne talks about being a constant lead learner and approaching working with school and teacher leaders with a mirrored approach to what we want to see teachers do in  the classroom.  She discusses DPS’s innovative teacher leadership structure where veteran teachers take school-based leadership roles while still remaining in the classroom part-time.  She discusses many of the methodologies that she has employed to be an effective thought partner for the instructional leaders she has worked with in her roles, including learning the powerful Cognitive Coaching approach.  She digs into DPS’s comprehensiveness and wholistic teacher evaluation framework known as LEAP.  She also talks about DPS’s next steps in equity related to the “hows” of culturally responsive teaching, including exposure and practice to grade-level text and cultivating rich connections to personal lives.

Thanks as always for tuning in to today’s episode with humble badass educator Marne Gulley.