Making SEL a Community Priority: Develop a Shared Vision for Schoolwide SEL With These 5 Steps

Develop a shared vision for schoolwide SEL with the steps outlined. Gather stakeholder thoughts on their shared why and incorporate group feedback int…

Inflexion March 22, 2023

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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.

Inflexion March 22, 2023

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Rethinking Master Schedules: Build a School Day That Prioritizes People

An effective master schedule is so much more than making sure the bells ring on time. It not only sets the pace for the school and community, but it c…

Inflexion March 20, 2023

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Roosevelt Middle School: Using Artful Learning and Community PRIDE Statements to Define Student Readiness Outcomes for All Students and Staff

Roosevelt’s leadership team identified two opportunities that were already part of their community that they would be able to leverage to create a m…

Inflexion July 26, 2018

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Discover Your School’s Shared Vision Readiness: Rate Shared Vision for Readiness in Your School With Your School Leadership Team

This activity will help your team reflect and identify effective leadership practices that will support the elevation and inclusion of stakeholder voi…

Inflexion May 31, 2022

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Three Strategies to Empower Students

What’s the secret to empowering students? How can we unleash their hidden potential? While I’m not sure I’m qualified to answer this question fu…

Curt Sell March 26, 2018

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Assess Your School’s Expansive Opportunities: Ensure Opportunities are Supporting Your Underserved Students

This activity will help your team examine what additional supports and opportunities are at your school and if they are meeting the needs of your stud…

Inflexion February 19, 2021

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Student Self-Awareness & Self-Knowledge: Ask the Right Questions to Understand Your Students

Ask students essential questions. This activity is a great way to learn more about your students, while fostering a sense of self-reflection. These qu…

Inflexion January 16, 2021

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Develop Leaders of Today and Tomorrow: Create Student Leadership Opportunities

Create leadership courses and set up structures for students to take on meaningful leadership roles, empower their voices, and engage them in decision…

Inflexion March 15, 2023

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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…

Inflexion February 24, 2023

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Assess Your Inclusive Practices: Bring Culturally Responsive Practices Into The Daily Routine

This activity will help your leadership team assess and identify how inclusive practices, supports, and structures, such as co-teaching and teaming, a…

Inflexion February 15, 2021

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Purposeful, Valuable Learning: Foster Learners With Autonomy and Drive

This activity will assist your team in learning how to foster students with autonomy, drive, and endurance through instructional routines and school r…

Inflexion March 15, 2023

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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…

Inflexion October 11, 2022

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Expansive Opportunities: Evaluate and Elevate Your School’s Tiers of Support

In this segment, he explains the concept and provides examples of how expansive opportunities—in addition to traditional MTSS tiers of support—ens…

Inflexion May 4, 2023

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5 Ways to Support Your School Community: Integrating Trauma Responsiveness Into Your MTSS Framework

During a Crowdsource Coffee on May 10, 2023, Portico coaches and school leaders discussed strategies for rethinking systems with a trauma responsive m…

Inflexion May 17, 2023

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Coherence and a Multi-Tiered System of Supports Activity: Evaluate & Visualize Your MTSS Framework

Coherence is not simply the alignment of goals, resources, and structures, although that may help. Our definition of coherence is the shared depth of …

Inflexion June 28, 2022

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Inverted Pyramid Planning Template: Planning an MTSS Framework That Works for ALL Students

This MTSS Planning Template will not only help you build out and visualize your school's complete MTSS framework but also start taking steps to implem…

Inflexion June 29, 2022

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Expansive Opportunities in Action: 4 Leaders Who Developed Supports Beyond Traditional MTSS

The Inflexion Approach incorporates core elements of a multi-tiered support approach to ensure each and every student gets what they need to be ready …

Vanessa Brazil May 1, 2023

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Student Surveys: Evaluate and Elevate Your School’s Tiers of Support

In this segment, he shares examples of how focused and meaningful student surveys can help keep MTSS efforts, programs, and vision on-track to ensure …

Inflexion May 4, 2023

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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…

Inflexion January 17, 2023

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MTSS Framework and the Work of the PLC: Two Schoolwide Systems & Three Big Ideas Work Together to Support ALL Students

You cannot effectively implement RTI without the PLC process. The three big ideas drive the work of a PLC: a focus on learning, a collaborative cultu…

Inflexion June 28, 2022

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Strategies for Equitable Family Engagement: Meaningfully Involving and Engaging Families and Trusted Community Advocates

Trusted community advocates can help build connections between community members and school staff, as well as build knowledge around educational activ…

Inflexion April 21, 2023

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Envision the Future of Your School’s Identity: Develop a Shared Understanding of Your School’s Identity

This activity is designed for the entire school community and will be conducted with staff, leadership teams, families, and students. This is an oppor…

Inflexion February 11, 2021

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Passion. Pride. Promise. Two Leaders Help Pave the Way for Their Students & Communities

Tucked away in the hills of rural western Oregon, the Vernonia and Gaston school districts defy many of the stereotypes most of us hold when we think …

Vanessa Brazil October 25, 2022

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Empower Your Students: A Leadership Team Activity to Assess & Rate Your School’s Level of Student Empowerment

This activity will guide your team to examine how student empowerment can be incorporated into students' daily lives. Are your students empowered to c…

Inflexion February 10, 2021

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