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…
Planning & Assessing Continuous School Improvement: Implement the PDSA Process & Template
This Plan, Do, Study, Act/Adjust (PDSA) template is designed to help district, building, and teacher leaders connect actions taken to the direct resul…
Mountainside High School: Building a Culture From the Ground Up
Opening a new high school in an established district is a challenge that can be daunting in many respects. Mountainside High School in the Beaverton S…
Valley High School: Redefining a School’s Culture Through an Awareness Campaign
Over the past 2014-2015 school year, the leadership, students, and community at Valley High School in Santa Ana, California, worked with us to clarify…
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 …
Valley High School: Teaching Literacy Every Period, Every Day
In 2015, Valley High School’s academic outcome data showed that students needed explicit support and practice developing the literacy skills necessa…
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…
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…
Portico Student Experience Survey: Measuring Belonging, Connection, Engagement
Let’s move away from an environment where kids are sorted, packaged, and labeled based on the perceptions of adults that barely knew them. Readiness…
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 …
Your Students Deserve the Best: 3 Steps to Hiring & Retaining Top Talent
During a Crowdsource Coffee on February 24, 2023, the Portico community discussed their challenges and nest practices when it comes to hiring and reta…
Magnolia High School: Growing Their Community’s Future
Magnolia High School's agriscience community center was highlighted as a model community school that's helping its community solve its food desert pro…
7 Strategies for Building Trust in Working Relationships
Roosevelt Middle School principal at Vista Unified School District, Amy Zilk, knows that a new leadership role is both rewarding and challenging. One …
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…
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…
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 …
Maxims, Routines, and Practices Can Make Your School’s Vision a Reality
Livingston is a large, diverse school in California’s Central Valley. After working with Inflexion to define their maxims, they reinforced them ever…
Springfield High School: Using Student Voice to Create Programming that Engages All Students
Due to the leadership team’s hard work, SHS was awarded a five-year grant to start the Afterschool Miller Program to give students a safe place to l…
Aloha High School: Operationalizing College and Career Readiness by Defining Student Outcomes
In order for schools to operationalize college and career readiness for all students, it is critical to identify the outcomes schools should be addres…
Work Cycle for Teams: Keep Collaborative Teams Focused on Their Purpose & Goals
So, you want to get on-board with continuous improvement and lasting change in your school and education; you've worked through the root causes of cor…
Annual Goals and 90-Day Action Plan Cycle: Make Long-Term Goals Manageable & Attainable
Understanding that continuous improvement is necessary and identifying what needs to be improved are the first steps towards lasting school change, bu…
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…
Westview High School: Building a Bridge for Students Between High School and Postsecondary Education Using a Senior Inquiry
With the goals of college readiness and student engagement in mind, WHS built a Senior Inquiry course that mirrored an approach to instruction often s…
South Junior High: Using Instructional Teaming To Know Individual Students
Over the past year, as the leadership team at South Junior High in the Anaheim Union High School District worked on MTSS implementation, they realized…
Westview High School: Ensuring All Students Are Known
The leadership team realized that for their Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS), it was critical that individual student’s unique strengths, inter…