7 Strategies for Building Trust in Working Relationships
Roosevelt Middle School principal at Vista Unified School District, Amy Zilk, knows that a new leadership role is both rewarding and challenging. One …
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5 Benefits of School Identity Work
During a Portico Crowdsource on October 20, 2022, Santiam Canyon Superintendent, Todd Miller, shared some insights about the importance of school iden…
Passion. Pride. Promise. Two Leaders Help Pave the Way for Their Students & Communities
Tucked away in the hills of rural western Oregon, the Vernonia and Gaston school districts defy many of the stereotypes most of us hold when we think …
A Source of Strength and Community: How Identity Keeps Santiam Canyon United Even When Everything Else is Falling Apart
Santiam Canyon Superintendent, Todd Miller, shares how their school district's identity and maxims are a source of community and strength, especially …
Maxims, Routines, and Practices Can Make Your School’s Vision a Reality
Livingston is a large, diverse school in California’s Central Valley. After working with Inflexion to define their maxims, they reinforced them ever…
How Making Student Self-Reflection Part of School Culture Led to Success for Anaheim Union High School District
Here’s how student self-reflection at Savanna High School helped launch a new learning culture throughout AUSHD and became a new model for the distr…
6 Tips To Manage Schools Through A Disaster
School administrators are coping with fires, storms, and floods on top of the deep disruption from COVID-19. Here are advice and resources from educat…
Marzano’s Strategies & Contextualizing Approaches to Learning in Shared Language for Student Outcomes
This chart lists high-yield instructional strategies, what the research says about them, and how to implement them in classrooms. The information has …
Defining Student Readiness Outcomes for All Using the IB Learner Profile
Over the course of the 2016-2017 school year the leadership team at Ocean View High School decided to take a step back and, specifically looking at th…
Snapshot of What’s Working: Multi-Tiered System of Support
Few large-scale policy initiatives speak to the potential of the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) more so than the California Scale-Up Multi-Tiere…