It's Time to Go Back to School!

Bringing staff together for the opening day of school is critical to setting the tone for the entire school year. This faculty meeting will help inspire your staff to work together this year to learn, grow, and experience positive student outcomes. 

Having a set of group guidelines increases productivity at meetings through providing clarity in the behaviors and expectations for the individual and collective team. This meeting plan will help you lead your staff through a collaborative process. 

This faculty meeting will support staff in creating good habits to build a strong foundation for SELf-care throughout the year so they are able to feel like their best self at work every day. 

(First in the series on SELf-Care)

One way to create a strong adult community in the school environment is to infuse short team-building activities within meetings that promote learning about colleagues, establish a focus, and incorporate fun into each meeting. This course will provide you with the important set-up steps to ensure participants feel safe and ready to delve into team-building activities. Additionally, you’ll walk away with ten team-building activities you can use throughout the year. 

Leading from the front means each faculty meeting is intentionally designed as an opportunity to learn - staff members expand and deepen their knowledge on relevant content, as well as best teaching practices that can be brought back into the classroom. In this course, the BASIC structure to creating high-quality faculty meetings that increase focus and participation is explained and best principles of practice for adult learning are reviewed.

You might have seen or heard the phrase “students must Maslow before they can Bloom!” We’re going to use the work from educational psychologist, Abraham Maslow, to discuss ten tips for creating an optimal learning environment where students thrive!

This course will use a combination of instructional videos and documents to help support you on your journey to conduct a Morning Meeting with  students, both in-person and/or online. 

In classrooms that have a strong balance of meeting students Academic and Social Emotional (A+ SEL) needs, teachers create positive energy, student engagement, and feelings of mutual respect and belonging. 

You might have seen or heard the phrase “students must Maslow before they can Bloom!” We’re going to use the work from educational psychologist, Abraham Maslow, to discuss ten tips for creating an optimal learning environment where students thrive!

This course will use a combination of instructional videos and documents to help support you on your journey to conduct an Advisory meeting with Middle School students both in-person and/or online. 

Throughout a school day, all adults working in a school (in any capacity) find themselves needing to speak with students in a variety of different ways. This course will support you on your journey to learn more about effective teacher language.

In this course you will identify key beliefs and practices that align SEL competencies for our students through teaching, learning, and student achievement in time-pressured special area classrooms. 

Throughout a school day, all adults working in a school (in any capacity) find themselves needing to speak with students in a variety of different ways. This course will support you on your journey to learn more about effective teacher language.