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Community Walks
This article by Shane Safir explores community walks, a key strategy used by Oakland International High School in their professional development process to allow educators to learn about their community based on the students in their classes. In the...
Community & Culture
Student CultureStaff CultureSystems BuildingParent EngagementCommunity Engagement
Group (Advisory Class)
Bronx Arena offers a weekly advisory class called “Group,” which creates time for students to build relationships and community-like structures within their class.
Offering an Advisory Class at Bronx Arena
Students and educators discuss "group," an advisory-like class that Bronx Arena provides for its students on a weekly basis.
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, 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...
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...
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.
Advice: Sharing evidence about effectiveness
In order for what we know to benefit students, we must share and consume knowledge about what works in blended learning in multiple forms and fora.
Advice: Support and Leverage for Early Adopters
Innovation in education does not always take hold when mandated solely from the “top down.” Early adopters at the school and district level can show the way for others across the state, and they provide authentic, real-world experience from which to...