Create Effective Leadership Practices: Leadership Team Rating & Reflection Activity
An activity for your leadership team to reflect on your most effective leadership practices.
Build Unity Through Change: Engage Staff in Continuous Improvement Processes
Continuous improvement should be embedded in day-to-day work, in a systemized, organic way. You can think of the cyclical process as a formative asses…
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…
SEL Aligned With Your School Community: Select an Evidence-Based SEL Program
Your SEL team will need to consider several factors prior to the adoption of an evidence-based program for SEL. This activity will assist your team t…
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…
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…
Hiring and Retaining Top Talent: The Importance of Site Leadership and Identity Alignment
It doesn't need to be in the news for us to know: hiring and retaining teachers and school staff is an increasingly difficult task. And it's also the …
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…
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…
Future of Work: Leadership Language that Promotes Psychological Safety
Words matter. What we say and how we say it affects those around us in powerful ways. And while even with the best of intentions and practice, miscomm…
Foster Student SEL Competencies: Embed SEL Explanations Into Daily Check-Ins and Student Self-Management
Embedding social and emotional learning (SEL) into instruction is a powerful way to help students connect and engage in learning. Sharing with student…
Foster Instructional Best Practices: Add Learning Walks to Your School’s Evaluation Toolkit
The Learning Walk routine is a proven and powerful tool for getting smarter about teaching and learning. For almost 25 years this research-backed prac…
Family And Community Engagement (FACE): Evaluate Systems & Structures That Support School Communities
During a Crowdsource on March 16, 2023, Anaheim Union High School District shared strategies for effectively engaging parents and family members. How …
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…
Purposeful Learning and Vision for Readiness: Align Instruction to Purposeful Learning
This activity will help you assess how much purposeful learning is happening in your school. By providing an opportunity to reflect on the bright spot…
Develop and Evaluate High-Achieving Teachers: Create a Learning Progression for Measuring Student Outcomes
The Novice–Expert Continuum is a unique framework that captures the evolution of students’ learning processes as they progress from following proc…
Quick & Fun Learning: Improve Literacy Skills with These 10 Games
These are some of the best writing games that require minimal or no setup time and are an excellent option for substitute teachers looking to quickly …
Add Critical Thinking to Your Classroom: Student Self-Monitoring Activities
Fun critical thinking activities to be used for student self monitoring exercises in conjunction with your curriculum. Included activities: Interactiv…
Authentic Connection: One-Word Opener Activity
While this activity functions as an icebreaker, it's best for deeper team-building for established teams. This activity can reveal some surprising ans…
Authentic Connection: Three Things Opener Activity
This icebreaker is great for introductions and is all about triggering fast, unfiltered thinking before a brainstorming session. It’s not about righ…
Authentic Connection: Team Timeline Opener Activity
While this activity functions as an icebreaker, it's best for deeper team-building for established teams. This exercise helps show, in a visual way, t…
Culture at the Core: How North Valley’s Monthly Themes Reinforce Maxims to Unify the School Community
During a Crowdsource on March 18, 2023, Erik Lathen, Principal of North Valley High School in Grants Pass, Oregon, shared how he's putting their maxi…
Authentic Connection: True or False Opener Activity
While this activity functions as an icebreaker, it also serves the purpose of deeper team-building, even for more well-established teams. Not only doe…
Authentic Connection: 10 Things in Common Opener Activity
This introductory icebreaker is an extremely effective way of encouraging cohesion and building solid inter-departmental relationships, leading to a h…
Authentic Connection: Positive Endings Riddle Activity
Riddles are another fun way to engage your team and leave people wanting more as they leave the team meeting. It’s a great way to get the conversa…