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Lindsay Unified School District’s Strategic Design
This slide deck provides an overview of the core components of Lindsay’s strategic design and highlights Lindsay’s mission, beliefs, guiding principles, vision, and lifelong learning standards. Instead of a single vision, Lindsay considers several...
Knowing the “Why": How do leaders communicate with new teachers around the purpose and vision of their innovative models?
Clearly communicating the “why” behind a school’s innovative model – not just the model itself – is an essential strategy for building new teachers’ abilities to understand and implement. This guide will explore various ways schools and districts...
Knowing the School: How do leaders prepare new teachers to be successful within their school models?
When welcoming new teachers (whether new to the school or to teaching), it is important that you clearly communicate the nuts and bolts that make your innovative school possible. This includes specifics about your model and approach, the supports...
Knowing the Community: How do leaders ensure new teachers understand and engage with the communities they serve?
When designing onboarding for new teachers (new to the school or to teaching in that school), it’s important to ensure they not only understand the school from an instructional standpoint but also get to know and understand the community they will...
Leadership That Moves You Forward: Innovation, Vision, and Planning
To help understand how district and building-level administrators can successfully manage the change process when leading personalized learning initiatives, the Institute for Teaching and Leading (i4tl) conducted research looking at which actions by...
Leadership That Moves You Forward, Part II: Engagement, Collaboration, and Teambuilding
This Insight, based off of research conducted by the Institute for Teaching and Leading, explores the most impactful actions site-level leadership can use to effectively lead schools through engagement, collaboration, and teambuilding.
Leadership that Moves You Forward, Part III: Diving Deeper on Creating Culture for Change
This Insight, based off of research conducted by the Institute for Teaching and Leading, explores the actions of school and district leadership in terms of their impact on empowerment, self-efficacy, mindset, and motivation of the learning...
Leveraging Language: How can students who are learning English use their home language in a personalized classroom?
Are you interested in learning how to better support your students who are learning English (“ELs”) by offering opportunities to use their home language in your general education classroom? If so, this guide will map out specific ways to engage your...
Strategic Supports: How can general education teachers implement strategic supports for students who are learning English within their personalized classroom?
Are you looking for ways to better support your students who are learning English (EL) within your personalized classroom? If so, this guide will map out specific strategies that can engage your learners in new ways through nonverbal communication,...
Today’s One Thing for Teachers: Assessing for Learning
This edition of Today’s One Thing for Teachers discusses different ways you can remotely assess learning to improve instruction.
What are the design factors that drive quality in K-12 remote learning?
Strong remote instruction leverages key research-informed design features to effectively engage students in learning. This guide will explore three design areas – technology, pedagogy, and relationships – that teachers should consider, as well as...