Your school can innovate without sacrificing the foundations of education by utilizing teachers’ strong suits, embedding innovative practices, empowering students to lead, and engaging families.
Helpful Resources to Share With High School Graduates
Whether a student is preparing or college or career, the summer after high school can be both exciting and overwhelming. Blogger Matt Davis has gathered some resources educators and parents can share with graduates to help them start planning ahead.
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Reflecting on the Year’s Accomplishments
Before your school community scatters for the summer, reflect on your teaching year through student feedback (face-to-face or anonymous), self-evaluation, parent feedback, and your PLN.
8 Ways to Encourage Family Engagement in Secondary Schools
When a school makes the decision to actively engage its diverse community of families, the benefits far outweigh the effort. Check out these eight ways to do it.
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SEL Is Good Teaching
If you’re engaging all students in classroom discussions, offering them responsibility and choice, and communicating with warmth and support, you may already be teaching SEL.
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21 Digital Tools to Build Vocabulary
Read the article by Kimberly Tyson, Ph.D, here.
STEM Everywhere: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math in the Real World
Explore STEM education in settings beyond the classroom walls, and see how opportunities to learn science, technology, engineering, and mathematics are all around us.
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Self-Advocacy
This is a great article by Elizabeth Stein.
We Have Student-Led Conferences. Why Not Teacher-Led Evaluations?
Modeled on student-led conferences, teacher-led evaluations support teachers as learners, motivate risk taking, and recognize the necessity for personalization.
Source: We Have Student-Led Conferences. Why Not Teacher-Led Evaluations?
Resources and Downloads to Support College Readiness
Discover resources and information – including downloads from schools – related to developing the awareness, knowledge, skills, and attitudes that will prepare students to enroll and succeed in college.
Source: Resources and Downloads to Support College Readiness
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