Santa Ana Unified: Creating Incredible Pathways for Students
An April 24, 2017 article in Getting Smart, Santa Ana Unified Creating Incredible Pathways for Students K-12, features Santa Ana Unified School Distri…
Dos and Don’ts of PBIS: 10 Ways to Increase Equity and Authentic Positive Reinforcement
Instead of ditching the entire philosophy and practice of PBIS, we need to be aware of and prevent implicit biases from influencing our systems and pr…
Personalize Your Professional Development: Leadership Scope and Sequence Planning
Portico coach, Jocelyn Bigay, uses this Leadership Scope and Sequence Planning Template within her Copilot sessions to focus goals for the year and id…
The Brain-Body Connection: Adopt Cross-Curricular Approaches in Elementary by Combining PE and Math
Teaching physical education is the only content area that educates students in all three of the learning domains – the cognitive, the affective, and…
The Brain-Body Connection: Adopt Cross-Curricular Approaches in Elementary by Combining PE and Literacy
Teaching physical education is the only content area that educates students in all three of the learning domains – the cognitive, the affective, and…
Beyond Just Reading: Combine Project-Based Learning with Literacy
PBLWorks put together a resource with innovative and creative ways to weave PBL into Literacy programs. Below are a few ideas.
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…
7 Strategies for Building Trust in Working Relationships: Survey and Reflect on Your Relationship-Building Skills
Use this resource to evaluate, survey, and reflect on your own relationship-building skills as a leader, and then commit to an action plan for self-im…
Equip Your Students to be Life Ready Using These 3 Simple Strategies
This last year has been full of airplane rides and early mornings for the School Partnerships team here at Inflexion as we work with school leadership…
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…
How Making Student Self-Reflection Part of School Culture Led to Success for Anaheim Union High School District
Here’s how student self-reflection at Savanna High School helped launch a new learning culture throughout AUSHD and became a new model for the distr…
Strategies for Supporting Family Engagement in Schools: Reflect and Plan for Meaningful Engagement
There is no one-size-fits-all approach to family engagement. However, it’s crucial to ensure families have a voice in their child’s educational ex…
The Skills Students Need: Four Keys Infographic
With education’s current focus on testing and results, it’s easy for both students and educators to lose track of what student readiness means. Th…
Celebrate Progress as Excellence: Encouraging Growth Mindsets & Inclusion
This classroom/school activity was inspired by the former principal of Martin Luther King, Jr. Junior High School, Angela Stevens-Stevenson, in a Crow…
Create a Career Pathway Experience: Making Learning Relevant for All Students
Create CTE or career pathways schoolwide so that every student experiences project-based learning throughout their school experience. Check out Valley…
A Source of Strength and Community: How Identity Keeps Santiam Canyon United Even When Everything Else is Falling Apart
Santiam Canyon Superintendent, Todd Miller, shares how their school district's identity and maxims are a source of community and strength, especially …
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 …
The Literacy Playbook: Integrate Literacy Into Every Period, Every Day
When students are struggling with literacy, consider teaching it schoolwide during every period of every day. This is what Valley High School implemen…
Foster Relationships and Cooperative Learning: Adopt Block Scheduling At Your School
Block scheduling is better for fostering and nurturing relationships for both teacher to student, as well as student to student relationships.
Real Prep: Provide (College) Application Day
Commit time in your yearly calendar to schoolwide activities that remove barriers to postsecondary education such as College Application Day for all s…
Practice Mindfulness: 5 Minutes or Less to Prioritize Your Well-Being
The practice of mindfulness is a combination of awareness and acceptance. When you practice awareness, you focus your attention on your current—pres…
Conduct Empathy Interviews: Elevating Student Voices, So You Can Understand and Support Them
Empathy Interviews provide an opportunity to really understand a student, or group of students, by diving deeper than the surface-level question, "How…
Staffing Solutions: Hiring and Retaining Top Talent
Many schools and districts are struggling to hire and retain talented teachers, with small candidate pools and other constraints. In this Crowdsource …
Holistic Well-Being: Teach and Model Self-Care for Students
Teach and model self-care to students to include: time, meditation, yoga, exercise, sleep, creative expression, and more. Adults on campus can openly …
Moving from Me to We: 8 Ways to Make the Shift to a Positive School Culture
Roosevelt Middle School principal, Amy Zilk, knows that a new leadership role is both rewarding and challenging. But instead of allowing some overwhel…