Defining SEL Outcomes: Develop Goals for Schoolwide SEL
This tool will help the SEL team develop and document goals for schoolwide SEL implementation and outcomes using the SMARTIE goal-setting process.
Tag: Leadership
SEL Support Starts With Strong SEL Teams: Assemble an SEL Team Checklist
Assembling the right team to lead a school-wide effort is key to success. This checklist will provide insight into the many stakeholders you should be…
Hiring and Retaining Top Talent: The Importance of Site Leadership and Identity Alignment
Hiring and keeping teachers is tough but crucial. Take action now to attract and retain the talent students need.
How To Build a Culture of Mind, Heart, and Spirit: 4 Ways Leaders Can Support Their Team & School
Embedding school identity in instruction, setting positive expectations, and embracing meaningful change are just some of the educational practices An…
9 Steps to Establishing a District Family Engagement Team
There is growing recognition, grounded in research, that effective family engagement can contribute to improved student outcomes and to closing persis…
Executive Briefing Protocol: The 4 Thinking Styles You Must Consider
Learn the four thinking styles that you commonly encounter in any work environment. When you are presenting information, each type of thinker tends to…
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…
Rethinking Priorities: 6 Ways to Focus on What’s Important
Being a school leader means dealing with 100 urgent fires every day. It’s so easy to get distracted from the really important work that results in m…
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…
Structures that Elevate Student Voice in Equitable Ways: Empowering Students While They Develop Life Skills
Student voice and equity have always been at the heart of my work as a school leader. They aren’t just ideals—they’re essential to creating scho…
