Toolkit is Portico’s library of grab-and-go resources for school leaders. It contains activities, classroom tools, and implementation plans that allow educators to avoid reinventing the wheel and focus more time on transforming learning to be relevant for all.
Recent Toolkit Posts
- Encourage Feedback and Build Consensus: Use the Fist to Five Protocol to Guide Decisions
Building consensus as a school leader is crucial for fostering collaboration, trust, and shared ownership of decisions and direction. By involving stakeholders in the decision-making process, leaders create a sense of unity and alignment toward common goals, improving the chances of success for initiatives and fostering a positive, inclusive school culture. - Creating Shared Approaches: Tuning Protocol for Building Consensus
It is critical for school leaders to understand the importance of consensus building within school communities, process feedback, and effectively communicate with stakeholders throughout the decision-making processes. This protocol is designed to gather warm, cool, and cold feedback from your school community, which can be used to “tune” or adapt the decisions and approaches you move forward with. - Enticing Into Confusion
No matter our instructional, distributed, or transformational leadership strengths their value does not address the change agent’s mortal enemy, the status quo. Foot soldiers in the status quo army are the purveyors of “No!” No matter how promising an idea, the answer is always the same—no.