Plan a Maker Event, Science Fair, or Entrepreneur Day: Engaging & Connecting Students to School Relevance

Plan and implement a school-wide or whole grade maker event, science fair, or entrepreneur day and have students develop projects for the event in a s…

Inflexion January 16, 2021

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Foster Problem-Solving & Creativity: Apply Divergent Thinking Strategies in Lesson Plans

Include divergent thinking strategies in your lesson plans using instructional strategies. Divergent thinking is the process of generating multiple id…

Inflexion January 16, 2021

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In Praise of the Incomplete Leader Activity: Utilize Your Team Member’s Strengths & Grow Strong Leaders

Discuss with your leaders about how better understanding each person’s strengths can create more distributed and inclusive leadership practices. Ide…

Inflexion January 13, 2021

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Mobilize Your A-Team: Examine Your Leadership Team Makeup, Decision-Making Practices & Protocols, and Communication Strategies

This activity will help you examine your leadership team makeup, decision-making practices and protocols, as well as communication strategies.

Jocelyn Bigay January 13, 2021

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Leadership Team Activity: Instill Empathy and Creativity

This activity, designed for the leadership team, will help you learn strategies using the Four Keys framework .– THINK, KNOW, ACT, GO – to align i…

Inflexion January 13, 2021

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Future Readiness Community Engagement Activity: Ensure Every Student is Prepared to Succeed After High School

Facilitate the Future Ready Protocol with all your key stakeholder groups to assist you in developing a shared understanding of the need for a holisti…

Matt Coleman January 13, 2021

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Know Your Why: Discover Your WHY, So Your WHAT Makes an Impact

As a leadership team, it is equally important to be able to articulate the why behind what you are doing; why it is important to do it, and why it is …

Matt Coleman January 13, 2021

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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…

Rachel Phillips December 17, 2020

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6 Tips To Manage Schools Through A Disaster

School administrators are coping with fires, storms, and floods on top of the deep disruption from COVID-19. Here are advice and resources from educat…

Rachel Phillips November 16, 2020

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Marzano’s Strategies & Contextualizing Approaches to Learning in Shared Language for Student Outcomes

This chart lists high-yield instructional strategies, what the research says about them, and how to implement them in classrooms. The information has …

Michelle Liebhardt June 30, 2020

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Case Study: Merced Union High School District

Through its work with Inflexion, MUHSD is seeing strong results in student outcomes and in closing the opportunity gap for underserved students. Calif…

Inflexion June 9, 2020

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Defining Student Readiness Outcomes for All Using the IB Learner Profile

Over the course of the 2016-2017 school year the leadership team at Ocean View High School decided to take a step back and, specifically looking at th…

Inflexion October 27, 2019

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Snapshot of What’s Working: Multi-Tiered System of Support

Few large-scale policy initiatives speak to the potential of the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) more so than the California Scale-Up Multi-Tiere…

Inflexion February 15, 2019

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Fountain Valley High School: Employing Leadership Systems and Structures

At Fountain Valley High School, the leadership team has long realized that leadership in large, comprehensive schools needs to be shared and systemati…

Inflexion July 30, 2018

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Loara High School: Providing Family Learning Walks to Help Families Better Understand Student Outcomes

How do you ensure that the perspectives of all families are incorporated into decisions at the schoolwide level as well as at the individual student l…

Inflexion July 30, 2018

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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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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…

Inflexion June 20, 2018

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Ocean View College Application Day

Interview with Dr. Courtney Robinson about the annual College Application Day at Ocean View High School. All seniors apply, during the school day, to …

Inflexion April 18, 2018

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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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Your School’s Identity is More Important Than You Think

Like it or not, the cultural identity of your school drives everything else you do. Who you truly are and what you believe about yourself at the core …

Rachel Phillips March 16, 2018

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The Future of Jobs: What Jobs Will Be Automated?

Occupations with higher hourly wages face a substantially lower likelihood of being automated. We need to help students develop strong skills through …

Inflexion March 2, 2018

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Painful Reflections After Tragedy

Our conversations at Inflexion this past week have been dominated by the familiar sadness, anger, and empathy we have every time there is another mass…

Matt Coleman February 23, 2018

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Intentionally Pausing to Build Structures

Over the past several years working with Inflexion, we’ve observed the immense value to school leadership teams of simply taking a pause, and having…

Michelle Liebhardt February 16, 2018

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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…

Brandi Peterson January 19, 2018

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Introducing the Inflexion Approach

The Inflexion Approach is rooted in organizational theory and recognizes the critical role identity plays in developing schools and systems that serve…

Matt Coleman November 7, 2017

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