Encourage Feedback and Build Consensus: Use the Fist to Five Protocol to Guide Decisions
Building consensus as a school leader is crucial for fostering collaboration, trust, and shared ownership of decisions and direction. By involving sta…
Creating Shared Approaches: Tuning Protocol for Building Consensus
It is critical for school leaders to understand the importance of consensus building within school communities, process feedback, and effectively com…
Enticing Into Confusion
No matter our instructional, distributed, or transformational leadership strengths their value does not address the change agent’s mortal enemy, the…
Open Lines of Communication: Hold Authentic Spaces to Gather Feedback and Have Brave Conversations
Open lines of communication to create brave spaces for your staff, students, and community to share their excitement, hesitations, and to crowdsource …
Resources We Love (And Hope You Will Too!)
During our May Counterpart meetings, we asked folks to share what they have been engaging with recently. Below is a list of all the resources shared b…
Future of Work: Staff Retention
Most likely, you've heard or read about how employees don't quit jobs, they quit bosses. One of the most fundamental aspects of leadership is hiring t…
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…
Future of Work: Inclusive Leadership “I Believe” Statements
Much of what guides and shapes a leader is what they themselves believe to be their role and function as a leader. But how many times have you actuall…
Future of Work: Great Leadership Qualities
Not all great leaders are the same or lead in the same way. Educational leaders, specifically, face many different responsibilities and challenges tha…
Future of Work: 6 Types of Courage for Inclusive Workplaces
The role of educator—and educational leader—takes heart. And courage. But did you know that courage isn't one-size-fits-all? Not only are there di…
Authentic Connection: Closing Questions
One of the best ways to create small, minimal invasive yet very powerful moments of human connections at work, are questions at the beginning of a mee…
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…
Authentic Connection: Positive Endings Mindfulness Activity
Taking a few minutes at the end of your meeting to come back to your breath or to practice some gratitude is a valuable use of time. This is going to …
Authentic Connection: Positive Endings Shoutouts Activity
There are many ways that you can end a meeting on a positive note, shoutouts are just one. Shoutouts show your employees their work and efforts are bo…
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: Guess Who Opener Activity
While this activity functions as an icebreaker, it's best for deeper team-building for established teams. This is a classic team-building exercise for…
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…
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: 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: Exorcise the Demons Opener Activity
While this activity functions as an icebreaker, it also serves the purpose of igniting topic exploration. This activity juices up everyone’s neuropa…
Authentic Connection: Meaningful Endings Inward-Outward Activity
This brief, yet powerful, closing activity not only offers a clear end to your gathering/meeting/training/activity/etc., but it provides participants …
Authentic Connection: Joy Toss Opener Activity
This versatile icebreaker/opener activity—from LMB Consulting—is fantastic for students, staff, leadership teams, peer groups, etc. It certainly f…
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…
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 …