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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

One of the things I’m most proud about in Trust-Based Observations is that we ask permission to offer suggestions—and only after relational trust is firmly established—both matter!

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Great ideas don’t come from control—they come from trust. With TBO, leaders create psychological safety so teachers can take risks, learn, and grow. Curious? Check out trustbased.com and grab a quick, no-pressure discovery call.

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Observation shouldn’t feel like a performance. It should feel like leadership. Like trust. Like growth. ✅ No scores ✅ No scripts ✅ No “gotchas” Just real conversations that help teachers thrive. www.linkedin.com/pulse/where-...

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Where Do We Go From Here?

From Compliance to Connection Last week we asked: How did we get here? How did teacher observation become a performance? A game? A waste of time? This week, the question becomes: Where do we go from h...

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

When teachers prep for walkthroughs with hand signals and “super lessons,” we’ve lost the plot. Observations should build trust—not just check boxes. Let’s fix it. ↓ #TrustBasedObservations #SchoolLeadership #TeacherGrowth #edutwitter www.linkedin.com/pulse/dog-po...

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The Dog and Pony Show Has Got to Go!

Above All, I Want to Spend My Time Productively Is that too much to ask? We all know the drill. Pre-observation conference.

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

People don’t like being told what to do. That’s why: “I have a suggestion—would you like to hear?” = huge. It’s one small piece of a bigger trust-building system. If this shifts everything, imagine a whole model built on it. 🔗 trustbased.com #edleadership #trust #teachers #TBO

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Imagine what’s possible when teachers feel trusted to take risks and grow. That’s how real transformation happens. Tag a leader who knows how to unleash their team’s brilliance. 💙 #TrustBasedObservations #LeadWithTrust #SchoolCulture #TeacherInspiration #EduLeadership #SupportTeachers #Edusky

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

What if observation wasn’t about compliance—but about cultivating greatness? Too often, our systems push teachers into survival mode. But greatness can’t be forced—it grows in cultures rooted in trust. That’s the heart of Trust-Based Observations. We don’t rate. We don’t rank. We build.

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

If Hattie’s highest effect size is collective teacher efficacy, but our eval systems lower self-efficacy... How will we ever get there? Observations must build trust—not anxiety. 🎙 w/ [@DarrinMPeppard] on Lean Into Leadership #TBO #TeacherSupport #EdLeadership #CollectiveEfficacy

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Trust-Based Observations: Leadership that builds trust → teaching that transforms students. #TBO #SchoolLeadership #TeacherSupport #EdChat

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Trust-Based Observations: Leadership that builds trust → teaching that transforms students. #TBO #SchoolLeadership #TeacherSupport #EdChat

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Want to lead to so you create "collective teacher efficacy," Hattie's largest effect size (1.57 with anything over.40 being substantial), and create a culture of trust? Go to trustbased.com to learn more. www.instagram.com/p/DJzg0Klpz5...

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Thanks so much for having me on the podcast Gene. I loved the chat. Anyone wanting to know more about Trust-Based Observations can go to trustbased.com

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Thanks for having me on the podcast @gtavernetti.bsky.social ! I’m grateful for the opportunity and I thoroughly enjoyed the conversation.

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Thanks so much for having me on the podcast Gene. I loved the chat. Anyone wanting to know more about Trust-Based Observations can go to trustbased.com

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

In Banff presenting at a conference. A participant tells me that retired caucasian relatives in Vancouver had a trip to the US planned. Got to the border, were asked to give their phones, saw Trump memes on Facebook. Boom—denied entry and banned them from entering the US for two years. Astounding?!?

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Well, new teacher evaluation legislation following A Nation at Risk, No Child Left Behind, and Race to the Top, didn’t improve teaching and learning and has cause untold harm on teacher well being—so if that’s any indication…

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Trust-Based Observations--So far, so very good! As someone who champions coaching, this book is right up my street. Bravo for a fantastic resource focusing on fostering trust, collaboration, and professional growth rather than evaluation and judgment... www.linkedin.com/pulse/25-boo...

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25 books I’ll happily fly the flag for...

As we head into ‘25’, I thought I’d share my thoughts on 25 books that, from my perspective, hold good currency in the world of education today. Some of these below are hands-on teaching gold, whilst ...

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I'm curious: As a school leader, what year over year percentage jump in students achieving proficient in ELA and Math would you be super excited about? #Edusky #Bluesky Education Peeps #EduSky Primary 1️⃣ 1-2% 2️⃣ 3-4% 3️⃣ 5-6% 4️⃣ Greater than 6% 📊 Show results

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

How? We can all have ideas, thoughts, whats, whys but we need HOW in order to make them a reality. I think it’s the most important word, one that is often left out of aspirations.

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Trust-Based Observations offers continuing monthly PD tied to our 9 areas of pedagogy-facilitated by teachers. Teachers choose which area to work on for the academic year and create a goal for it. Meaningful, teacher choice, tied to common goals. All love it-growth follows trustbased.com

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Tracy, I’d love to share. I developed an alternative method of teacher observation called Trust-Based Observations and it makes all the difference. Teachers feel valued and the result is they feel safe trying new practices. Check it out: trustbased.com I’d love to chat about it.

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Agreed—do you know about Trust-Based Observations? Using it teachers feel valued—because they are and it makes all the difference. trustbased.com Please reach out, I’d love to share.

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Get Trust-Based Observations training—improve teaching and learning, create a culture of trust, retain your teachers. Happy to connect you with trained principals to hear their experiences. Reach out—craig@trustbased.com trustbased.com

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Sometimes people make your day: Craig! My goodness so so good to hear from you! I was literally just talking about you last week! So glad you got in touch! TBO has changed the culture of our school and has developed so many reflective teachers which has built such a trusting community. Mehal

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I’d love that Lee Ann. Feel free To email me, craig@trustbased.com and we can set something up.

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Exactly! And perseverance is key, always but especially first year teaching Lee Ann I have a couple of schools I have trained in Trust-Based Observations who are now blending it with UBD feeling like they go together well. I don’t know if you have interest, but I’d love to chat about it if you do.

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Congratulations! My son is a first year teacher at a behavior school in Philadelphia—and it’s hard. I think sometimes when they know your parent is an education author they think that automatically they’re going to be perfect—but it take hard work and practice—as you know.

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Congratulations—I know that feels great!

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Same goes for teacher evaluation. When we grade their pedagogy it creates a deficit mindset in observers, increases teacher dissatisfaction and factors into our teacher shortage. Same thing—something is wrong. Doesn’t have to be that way.

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

As someone who has also had Hattie endorse his book, I know what a big deal that is. Congratulations!! I have a good story on mine if you’re interested.

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

A1: Coming at this from the view of grading teachers I always knew there was something wrong with rating Teacher pedagogy. Reading O’Leary’s research that said rating T’s diminishes relational trust which causes them to play it safe and therefore not take risks or innovate is when I understood why.

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Just popped on to Amazon and saw that the book is 30% off right now. Trust-Based Observations the perfect Christmas present for the school administrators in your life—or a worthy gift for yourself.

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Amen, support them, take action to make them feel appreciated, valued. The know their why—so do what you can as a leader to help them realize their why by creating conditions of trust, so they can experiment, fail, and know they’ll still be supported.

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I also have my own podcast called 20 Minutes of Teaching Brilliance: On the Road with Trust-Based Observations. Ever week training school leaders in TBO I have the privilege of seeing brilliant teaching. We share that out on the podcast via shoptalk with those teachers. tbo.bepodcast.network

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20 Minutes of Teaching Brilliance (On the Road with Trust-Based Observations)

On the road training schools in Trust-Based Observations trainings, we periodically see absolute teaching brilliance during our 20-minute observations. It dawned on us that we have an obligation to sh...

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Thanks for sharing the article. I think you’ll see a fair amount of alignment with Trust-Based Observations. If you type Google my name and Trust-Based Observations you’ll find podcasts listening to me explain it further detail. And of course you can check out the book or trustbased.com

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

$597 million spent by the Gates Foundation trying to improve teaching and student learning outcomes showed, “no significant or sustained improvement” An Annenberg Foundation meta study of all state mandated teacher evaluation legislation showed, “no improvement.” So we know they’re not working.

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

On a mission change teacher observation to a model of trust and support. If we’re going to use observation to create safe spaces for teachers to take risks trying new practices we ought to first examine old practices. Are current models working? Are they improving teaching and learning? #Edusky

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I’m on a mission to transform the world of teacher observations to a model of trust and support. I want teachers to know that can be observed trying something new, have it be a disaster, yet know their principal will praise the risk taking—the path to growth and happy teachers who stay. #EduSky

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

In Trust-Based Observation’s we focus on first noticing, and then sharing those strengths with teachers. The power in starting from strengths is remarkable. Teachers feel empowered. It builds trust and relationship. It leads to a willingness to take risks to improve. It is vital t growth.

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Agreed Pam!! Have you heard of Trust-Based Observations? I think it might align with your work. trustbased.com Hattie calls it collective teacher efficacy in action.

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Agreed, but research says building relational trust first helps receivers to be more open to supportive feedback.

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

“How” to create safe spaces for teachers to take risks to learn is the most important ingredient. We must recognize that grading teachers’ pedagogy inhibits risk taking. We can change that and use specific actions to build trust. Trust-Based Observations shows you how. trustbased.com

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Craig Randall @trustbasedcraig.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I’m so thrilled to be on @bsky.app How refreshing to be able to read and interact without having my blood boil within 30 seconds. Hooked already. Thank you too to everyone on the site for being respectful in your actions. 🙏

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