Leading with Transparency: Closing the Feedback Loop with Purpose
Collecting feedback is a critical part of leading a responsive school—but it’s what happens after that matters most. When we ask for input, we set…
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Listening is Leadership: Elevating Student Voice to Transform School Culture
There are a lot of pressures facing school leaders right now: achievement data, staffing challenges, shifting priorities, etc. It’s easy to get caug…
Making Evaluation Meaningful and Supportive
Conceptually, evaluation shapes careers and advancement. In reality, it rarely leads to significant outcomes. Few teachers receive unsatisfactory rati…
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 sta…
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 com…
Open Lines of Communication: Hold Authentic Spaces to Gather Feedback and Have Brave Conversations
Open lines of communication to create brave spaces for your staff, students, and community to share their excitement, hesitations, and to crowdsource …
Ditch the Clip: PBIS Alternatives to the Clip Chart
Clip charts have been a common classroom strategy for many years. Once considered an effective tool for displaying behavioral progress and adherence t…
Learning from Each Other: Use These Tools for Peer Reviews in Teaching
This peer review activity focuses on specific elements of a classroom (outlined below) and fosters encouragement and strategies for teachers given by …
Principal’s Advisory Council: Develop Structures that Elevate Student Voice in Equitable Ways
What does it mean to give students a voice? Not just to speak, but to shape the school they’re part of? For us, it starts with the Principal Advisor…