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The #1 Way to Guarantee Growth for 2024-2025

Hey friends! I know this time of year is tough, but I also know that if you are an administrator, you are already looking towards next year. You have to be. So do you want to know the #1 way to guarantee growth for 2024-2025? Reflect on the current year and make a plan proactively…

May 1, 2024

8 Questions to Bring Student Growth

As you can probably guess, one of the main aspects of being a responsive educator is knowing your students, and then planning instruction accordingly – but what exactly does this mean? As I work with teachers, after we go through alignment (you can catch that on the next blog), the next question I ask is…

November 29, 2022

3 Phases of a Crisis – Where are your teachers?

So before I jump into the content of this blog, I want to acknowledge that teaching is hard right now. I, in no way, want to negate the difficulties that educators are facing. I do, however, think it’s important that we are always being reflective. The talk that I heard that led to this blog…

November 17, 2022

6 Ways to Care for Teachers Now!

As this year comes to a close, it’s a great time to leave a lasting impact on teachers. Let’s be honest – it’s been a heck of year. Many of them are tired, overwhelmed and not sure how they’re going to make it to the end of the year, much less start the next school…

April 11, 2022

What Your Teachers Really Need: 6 Things to Consider Going into the 2021/2022 School Year…

What your teachers really need: 6 things to consider going into the next school year…

August 17, 2021