I have watched all of the videos and love Power Teaching. I am an Instructional Coach for two Elementary schools. My question is, how to begin using Power Teaching with my 20 teachers that I help guide in their professional development. I am in various classes and sometimes do model lessons, however most of my time is spent in meetings with teachers discussing various instructional strategies... etc. Any suggestions, as I have several teachers that could use the wonderful classroom management help with using these strategies.
Thanks,
Jeanine

From going to the training, it seems to me that the best way to teach Power Teaching is to use it on them. It totally works for adults, though you modify things a bit. Think about the video of Chris teaching his college class. I don't envy you though, even though I think it would work great with a group of teachers, it wouldn't be fun to contemplate actually standing up and trying it. I can say it came much more naturally than I thought though when I started with my third graders recently.

If you want a written step by step walkthrough check out my site http://classroompower.com, and feel free to ask any questions you like.

I wonder if you could get some other coaches involved first....watch videos, read material, then when you're ready, present it to large groups, even if you have to combine schools. Smaller groups are awkward, and teachers are the most challenging students of all! Advertise it as a "Teaching Challenging Students" workshop, and send them to the website, too, to check it out and see the interest.
Whatever you do, try to keep the groups large...that way the energy is high and obvious, and people feel less self-conscious. You may want to show them some of Biff's videos as part of your presentation, as well.