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Beyond the Bell: Boosting Extracurricular Participation at Your School
"Increase extracurricular participation by removing barriers, promoting widely, and aligning activities with student interests. Build a welcoming environment and connect activities to academic success."
Bridging the Gap: Uncovering Learning Needs in Multilingual Students
Effectively addressing learning gaps in multilingual learners requires moving beyond simple language barriers. Teachers should observe carefully, modify assessments, utilize students' native languages, and focus on content-specific language. Building supportive relationships is key to creating an environment where students feel comfortable learning and growing.
Language Matters: A Look at Athletic Culture Through an Educational Leadership Lens
The power to provide a healthy, safe and positive athletic culture lies within the leadership of the athletic program. Athletic administrators and coaches have an inherent responsibility to ensure that the athletic culture of the school includes as its core offering an avenue of student learning that stresses safety and well-being within all participation opportunities.
Unleashing Little Einsteins: Differentiating STEM Projects for Gifted Elementary Learners
Ever wonder how to truly challenge your gifted elementary learners during STEM projects? It's not just about giving them more work, it's about giving them different work. Dive into practical strategies for differentiation, from offering complex choices to fostering independent investigation. Learn how to ignite their curiosity and watch them soar!
Creating a Safe and Supportive Classroom: Understanding and Working with Students Affected by Trauma
Understanding the effects of trauma is crucial for teachers. This post explores how trauma manifests in students and offers insights into creating a classroom where all students feel safe, supported, and empowered to learn.
Small Groups, Big Impact: Strategies for Effective Literacy Instruction
Small group instruction can feel overwhelming, but it doesn't have to be! Our latest blog post breaks down effective strategies for planning, managing, and assessing small group work in literacy. Get practical tips you can use tomorrow!
Recommended Readings
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Taking Action; Second Edition: A Handbook for RTI at Work™
The second edition of Taking Action explores how educators can utilize the PLC at Work® process to establish an effective multitiered system of supports. This guide details essential actions for the guiding coalition, teacher teams, and intervention team. It includes new recommendations and tools for assessments, student engagement, and overcoming resistance.
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Behavior Solutions: Teaching Academic and Social Skills Through RTI at Work
Meeting students' behavioral, emotional, and social needs enables them to excel academically and personally. Take strategic action to close the behavior gap with Behavior Solutions. This resource outlines using PLC at Work® and RTI at Work processes to create a collaborative, research-based, three-tiered support system.
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Culture First Classrooms: Leadership, Relationships, and Practices that Transform Schools
Creating a positive classroom culture is an art and a science. In "Culture First Classrooms," Dr. Darrin Peppard, Katie Kinder, and expert educators share strategies for transforming classrooms and schools. This book illustrates how to create environments where students and staff feel safe, engaged, and empowered. Learn how laughter, relationships, and intentional culture-building enhance learning and success.
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180 Days of Self-Care for Busy Educators
Use 180 Days of Self-Care for Busy Educators to lead a happier, healthier life both in and out of the classroom. Author Tina H. Boogren offers thirty-six weeks of daily self-care strategies aligned with the school year, covering themes like creativity, relationships, and time management for educators.
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Highly Effective Team - PLC at Work
Transform teacher teams into a force for student success with this action-driven guide. A companion to Learning by Doing, it offers 15 essential actions for effective collaboration, clarifying learning goals, leveraging assessments, and ensuring every student receives necessary support. This accessible, conversational book equips teams with the tools, strategies, and insights needed to enhance student achievement.
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The Blueprint: Survive and Thrive as a School Administrator
The Blueprint is meant for aspiring administrators, teacher-leaders, current administrators, and central office personnel. The Blueprint is also written for teachers, community members, and even students in leadership positions because what is discussed within the book can and should be implemented in every school across the globe.
The stories shared throughout the book will make you reflect, make you ponder, and make you laugh. Each chapter will assist you in your leadership journey. At the end of the day, we are all in this together. Let’s band together and change the game.
