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Offer Opportunities for Fun
Offering different ways for students to connect and engage with each other informally is incredibly important for building a strong culture and community, especially when implementing remote or hybrid learning.
Circle Prompts at Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Community School District implemented “Community Circles” as part of its social-emotional learning curriculum. The circles take place every morning in grades K-8. These prompts can be used by teachers with students during the circle...
Podcasts: TLA Stories of Learning
Explore various podcasts in our leadership series, "What Will We Take With Us?" to hear how education leaders rose to tackle the challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic, and how they're working to take what they've learned into a future that 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...
Launching Community Circles To Better Support Students
In response to the pandemic, Cedar Rapids Community School district implemented a district-wide family engagement plan based around quarterly phone calls to surface needs and concerns from families.
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...
Monterey Peninsula: Getting Inspired by Relationships Between Students and Adults
Through their redesign work, Monterey Peninsula Unified School District has explored deepening personal relationships and students’ feelings of connection within the school community. The design team knew that such personal relationships and feeling...
Norwood Public Schools
The Norwood Public Schools is committed to providing each student with a comprehensive and innovative education in an inclusive, safe and supportive environment. Norwood is a community that is committed to its children and values and respects its...
Cedar Rapids: Brainstorming Ideas for Student Goal-Setting and Feedback
Cedar Rapids Community School District (CRCSD) sought to address a key problem in their district: “How might we provide relevant, standards-aligned feedback to students so that every student reaches mastery?” In brainstorming solutions, the team...
Teacher Provides an Overview of the Community Violation Process at Roots
Roots teacher, Lecksy Wolk, explains the process for addressing behaviors that undermine culture.Transcript: Lecksy Wolk: all adults in the building are able to give out a CV. So it's a community violation – for short, CV. And on the front side, we...
Communities of Practice
How to support innovative teachers to continue to stretch their practice over time.