5 Easy Swaps: Engage in Effective Anti-Bias Training
Research suggests stand-alone anti-bias training may not change long-term behavior. For leaders working to make their schools more equitable, studies …
Category: Protocols
Build Structures For Healthy Relationships – Leadership Team Activity: Assess How Well School Structures Support Healthy Relationships
An activity for your leadership team to reflect on key structures that have been used to build opportunities for students to be known in your school.
Envision the Future of Your School’s Identity: Develop a Shared Understanding of Your School’s Identity
This activity is designed for the entire school community and will be conducted with staff, leadership teams, families, and students. This is an oppor…
Empower Your Students: A Leadership Team Activity to Assess & Rate Your School’s Level of Student Empowerment
This activity will guide your team to examine how student empowerment can be incorporated into students' daily lives. Are your students empowered to c…
Incorporate KNOW Skills for Student-Centered Learning: Redesign Your School to Incorporate Project-Based Learning
Redesign and commit to a schoolwide framework and curriculum that uses Project Based Learning and/or cross-curricular experiences for all students.
Incorporate THINK Skills for Student-Centered Learning: Use Design Thinking as Your School’s Foundational Backbone
Identify a THINK framework, such as design thinking, to set up as a foundational backbone that can be embedded every period, every day throughout your…
Know Your Why: Discover Your WHY, So Your WHAT Makes an Impact
As a leadership team, it is equally important to be able to articulate the why behind what you are doing; why it is important to do it, and why it is …
Future Readiness Community Engagement Activity: Ensure Every Student is Prepared to Succeed After High School
Facilitate the Future Ready Protocol with all your key stakeholder groups to assist you in developing a shared understanding of the need for a holisti…
Mobilize Your A-Team: Examine Your Leadership Team Makeup, Decision-Making Practices & Protocols, and Communication Strategies
This activity will help you examine your leadership team makeup, decision-making practices and protocols, as well as communication strategies.
In Praise of the Incomplete Leader Activity: Utilize Your Team Member’s Strengths & Grow Strong Leaders
Discuss with your leaders about how better understanding each person’s strengths can create more distributed and inclusive leadership practices. Ide…