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Olivia Wahl
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My expertise is in PreK-12 leadership, coaching, and culturally responsive practices. I partner with administrators, coaches, and teachers to align research and beliefs with daily practices, using data-driven decision-making to ensure all students thrive.
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Mind-blowing insight from attachment expert Eli Harwood: Babies literally don't have consciousness of self.

They're born 100% dependent, experiencing life only through who touches & feeds them.
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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#schoolutionspodcast S5E13 What Kids REALLY Need When They Act Out

📣 New Podcast Episode Alert!

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November 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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#schoolutionspodcast S5E12 BONUS: Why Students Are So Tired & How to Fix It

New episode reveals: when students see they're 2/3 through a task (like minute 13 of 20), they don't GET tired - they EXPECT to be tired.

Their brains literally prepare for exhaustion that isn't real.
November 21, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Another pattern in every expert teacher's practices: They pay attention to connections.

Not just teacher-to-student, but:
• Student to student
• Student to self
• Student to curriculum
• Classroom to real world

Sam Bennett visualizes this as a square with hearts at each corner.
November 20, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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For 400+ years since Descartes, we've treated the mind and body like they're divorced.

In classrooms, this looks like:
"Sit still and think."
"Stop fidgeting and focus."
"Your body is a distraction from your mind."
November 20, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Why Students Remember 76% More When They Move While Learning

🎧🎙Listen to the Full Episode: www.buzzsprout.com/1890886/epis...
📺🎙Watch the Full Episode: youtu.be/4-mosH0raZg

Gravity Goldberg shares why students who move while studying retain 76% more information...
November 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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🧠 "Movement isn't the distraction from learning. It is the learning."

Dr. Gravity Goldberg drops this truth in "The Body Brain Connection"—and it changes everything we thought about kids who can't sit still.
November 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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#schoolutionspodcast S5E12 The Secret Connections Between Your Body & Brain

🎧🎙 Listen: pod.fo/e/35424d
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youtu.be/4-mosH0raZg

Students get mentally fatigued at the 2/3 mark of any task—not because they're actually tired, but because they EXPECT to be tired.
November 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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#schoolutionspodcast S5E11 BONUS: Why Every Student IS a Math Person

We became teachers to help but what if making math too easy is actually stealing our kids' mathematical identity?

In this bonus episode, I'm unpacking my conversation with Mona about why struggle is the secret ingredient.
November 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I've been in classrooms with incredible teachers & jumping on late-night Zooms for my book project.

One pattern: the best educators meet people where they are while maintaining sky-high expectations.

@stenhousepub.bsky.social

#Schoolutions #OliviaWahlCoachingConsulting #ForeverGettingBetter
November 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Your 4-year-old is already a mathematician, and formal schooling might actually be getting in the way.

“Little kids have an ability to solve problems without formal schooling. We can reason about the world and make sense of the mathy things going on around us.”

@stenhousepub.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Why Math Education Needs a Revolution

🎧🎙 Listen to the Full Episode: www.buzzsprout.com/1890886/epis...
📺🎙Watch the Full Episode: youtu.be/HO0l_eyKZPw

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November 12, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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The shift: Write challenge problems for your students that are rich rich with multiple options for solving.

Yes, everyone will squirm (including you). But that discomfort?

That's where real mathematical thinking lives.
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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The uncomfortable truth about teaching math:

Most teachers give problems that are too easy because we're wired to be helpers.

But if kids solve it before you finish explaining? You've just wasted 25 minutes.
November 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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#schoolutionspodcast S5E11 - 5 Steps to Creating a Classroom of Problem Solvers

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@stenhousepub.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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#schoolutionspodcast S5E10 BONUS: Drowning in Standards? How to Cut Back to What Matters MOST

Doug Reeves's research is wild—students who deeply master 88% of standards outperform those who race through 100%.

🎧🎙 Listen:
➡️ pod.fo/e/34d5a9
➡️ youtu.be/zWWOACEnWNc
November 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The secret to identifying what REALLY matters in your curriculum? Larry Ainsworth's R-E-A-L criteria.

Too many districts pick standards based solely on "what's on the test" (Assessment).
November 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Coaching insight: The 4 modes of engagement from "The Disengaged Teen" are perfect for teacher coaching!

Passenger → inspire curiosity
Resistor → understand the why behind the push back
Achiever → unpack perfectionism
Explorer → grow together

@drrebeccawinthrop.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Creating IEP Goals That Boost Student Success

🎧🎙 Listen to the Full Episode: www.buzzsprout.com/1890886/epis...
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The reading intervention nobody talks about: Student reading 4 grades behind? Don't water down the thinking
November 5, 2025 at 9:31 AM
We've all been there - racing through standards, checking boxes, knowing deep down our students aren't really getting it.

Essential standards aren't about teaching less; they're about teaching better.

#Schoolutions #SchoolutionsTeachingStrategies #TeacherTips #EssentialStandards
November 4, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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This month, I'm collecting toolbox moments like: Holding onto moments of selflessness between strangers, Daniel Pink wisdom on creativity ("It's connection, repetition, and courage"), and Dr. Douglas Reeves on agency as "The New Literacy."

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November 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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#schoolutionspodcast S5E10 Less is More: Rethinking Essential Standards for Deeper Learning

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November 3, 2025 at 10:17 AM
November's conversations are about one thing: what happens when good ideas meet bad implementation?

From Larry Ainsworth's essential standards reality check to Eli Harwood's "greet kids like dogs do" attachment science - we're leaning into curiosity this month.
November 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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#schoolutionspodcast S5E9 BONUS: Rethinking Certainty in Education - Why We’re Doing It All Wrong

New bonus episode ⬇️
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➡️ youtu.be/h5gj6yH9Sjs
October 31, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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"It's not proving something did or didn't happen. It's about investigating and not having the burden of just being a teacher doing, but becoming a teacher by learning."

🎙️Link to our conversation ⬇️ youtu.be/8omXvWmAPl0
October 30, 2025 at 1:29 PM