Resource Sheet: Starting the New Year Connected

Have ten minutes?

• Watch this video from Edutopia: Making Sure Each Child is Known (3 minute video, transcript included) on how a middle school in Nevada connects with each and every student
• Read this article from ACSD: How Principals Spark Engagement (<5 minute read) on the importance of engaging with faculty
• Read this article by Nicolás Pino-James: Golden Rules for Engaging Students in Learning Activities (5 minute read) on how to foster student engagement in the classroom

Have an hour? Explore these items from the Portico Toolkit:

• Conduct Empathy Interviews: Elevating Student Voices, So You Can Understand and Support Them (1 hour activity; 10 minute read)
• Inverted Pyramid Planning Template: Planning an MTSS Framework That Works for ALL Students (1 hour activity; 10 minute read)

Have more time? Read Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, by adrienne maree brown (2017)

• From AK Press

• From Powell’s