Teaching Learning Leading K-12

Miriam Plotinsky - Lead Like a Teacher: How to Elevate Experience in Your School. This is episode 578 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast. Miriam Plotinsky is an author and instructional specialist who addresses challenges in both teaching and leading across schools with a wide range of differentiated needs. A strong advocate for student-centered learning, she provides coaching and professional development for teachers and administrators. Her first book, Teach More, Hover Less: How to Stop Micromanaging Your Secondary Classroom (W.W. Norton & Company, 2022), is a practical guide to a student-centered instructional approach that removes the necessity of teacher micromanagement. Her second book, Lead Like a Teacher: How to Elevate Expertise in Your School (W.W. Norton & Company, 2023) addresses how to close the “empathy gap” between administrators and teachers by bringing forth the instructional expertise and perspectives of teachers.  Her third book, Writing Their Future Selves: Instru