Hire and Retain a Diverse Staff: Nurture a Positive Staff Community
This activity will help you analyze your current recruitment and retention efforts. Developing and nurturing a staff community aligned with your schoo…
Category: Protocols
Purposeful, Valuable Learning: Foster Learners With Autonomy and Drive
Imagine a classroom where students are no longer racing to keep up with the teacher’s lesson plan, but instead, learning at the pace that works for …
Leadership Challenge: Create Collective Genius to Innovate Education
The role of a leader of innovation is not to set a vision and motivate others to follow it. It’s to create a community that is willing and able to i…
Exceptional Situations, Exceptional Students: Networks to Support Students in Intensive Circumstances
The academic and behavioral needs of most students are met through a continuum of support within a school. Some students, however, require out-of-syst…
Embracing Difficult Discussions: How to Have a Crucial Conversation
Having difficult conversations is, well, difficult. However, these are also often the most important and urgent conversations to have. Many leaders ha…
Getting to Really Know Each Other Through Inquiry: Activity with Staff and Students
The beginning of the school year is a critical window. Before we dive into content, expectations, or systems, we have to invest in relationships. If w…
Bonding Braid Activity: Fostering Staff Relationships That Students Prosper From
This staff activity was shared by the former principal of Martin Luther King, Jr. Junior High School, Angela Stevens-Stevenson, in a Crowdsource Webin…
You Belong Here: Making Sure Each Student Is Known
It's not news to educators that students who feel they belong within a school community are more successful both in and out of school. But knowing som…
Unpacking “All” Protocol: Making Sure We Actually Serve ALL Students
A foundational question we should be asking in education is: “What is our school doing to prepare ALL students?” In the following activity, you'l…
Student Voice & Choice: Increase Student Agency and Ownership of Learning
This short video and brief reflection activity can assist you in leading conversations about ways to increase student agency and ownership of learning…