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Here's how you can provide training to ensure that classified or non-instructional staff have the skills needed to successfully supervise their team: Read more from District Director of Human Resources, Jeremiah Harrison: www.edutopia.org/article/buil...
Building Leadership Skills Across Your School
Administrators can provide training to ensure that classified or non-instructional staff have the skills needed to successfully supervise their team.
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Join our first-ever Jam Fest! Two back-to-school Jam Sessions = double the great conversation. ⚡ Chat about creating routines: https://edut.to/4xbTclI Chat about building classroom community: https://edut.to/3REqrzi Choose a conversation and jump into the Teacher2Teacher forum to get started!
It’s a real problem in education: The more popular an idea becomes, the more it gets distorted. ⛓️💥 Edutopia editor @youkiterada.bsky.social explores 6 misunderstood ideas in education. #EdResearch #SEL #EduSky
When Good Research Gets Implemented Badly
As brilliant ideas move from academic journals into classrooms, many important nuances are lost.
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You don’t have to be a math teacher in a past life to give good feedback to your school’s educators. ➗ Try these 3 approaches that help school leaders give math teachers valuable information about how to improve their teaching practices. #SchoolLeaders #ITeachMath
3 Ways to Give Math Teachers Effective Feedback
School leaders can use these ideas to provide math teachers with discipline-specific insights for improving their instructional practices.
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Why do we feel care and attachment to the things we make? 🏠 @cathleenbeachbd.bsky.social and principal Nick Brousse explain the IKEA effect and how you can use it in your school today. #EduSky #SchoolLeaders
Selfishly, I would also absolutely LOVE to learn about what are the most popular readings being assigned by those "teaching teachers" these days... What are the go-to pieces? #EduSky
Teacher2Teacher@teacher2teacher.bsky.social · 2w agoTeacher educators, Alex V. is updating their syllabus and would love your input. Lend a hand on T2T: www.edutopia.org/teacher2teac...
8 Classroom AI Policies Developed by Teachers via #edutopia www.edutopia.org/article/8-cl... #EduSky #EduSkyAI #TLSky #EdTech #AIinEducation #aisky #ai #classroompolicy
8 Classroom AI Policies Developed by Teachers
Setting clear, shared expectations around student AI use is uncharted territory for many teachers. Educators across disciplines and grade levels share their current policies.
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Paige T. asks, "What’s on your mind re: AI or classroom technology right now?" Join the conversation: www.edutopia.org/teacher2teac...
What's on your mind re: AI or classroom technology right now?
If your school was going to host a tech summit, what topic(s) would you add to the docket? My most recent article, Why Your School Should Have a Tech Summit This Year, was sparked by a Substack post f...
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Educator @rdene915.bsky.social says AI transparency in schools starts with questions and conversations with teachers, staff, and students' families. Read more: www.edutopia.org/article/ai-t...
Check out this new @principalproject.bsky.social story from @jorgedoespbl.bsky.social. 👀
Dr. Jorge Valenzuela@jorgedoespbl.bsky.social · 2w agoMany teachers are enjoying a well-earned summer. Administrators are already preparing for the return of their teams & a new school year. My Edutopia article explores how leaders can understand resistance and create greater cohesion among teaching teams: www.edutopia.org/article/buil...
Your legacy as a leader won’t be measured by your test scores or your spreadsheets. It will be measured by the culture you leave behind. It will be measured by how safe, valued, and empowered your people felt under your watch. #EDUsky #education #leadership
Teacher educators, Alex V. is updating their syllabus and would love your input. Lend a hand on T2T: www.edutopia.org/teacher2teac...
Teacher educators: what’s on your syllabus this fall?
This one’s for all of you who teach teachers! What’s your favorite reading on your syllabus this fall? Any classic articles that your students get excited about every year? Or new readings you’re goin...
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How consistent one-on-one meetings between district leaders and principals can prevent missed conversations—and show you’re invested in school success. ⬇️ #SchoolLeaders
Why District Leaders Should Prioritize One-on-One Meetings With Principals
Making time to address challenges, celebrate successes, and prove direct coaching is an effective way to support principals.
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Unresolved questions about technology are a growing challenge in schools across the country. Read about how a school-wide tech summit could help: www.edutopia.org/article/talk...
Why Your School Should Have a Tech Summit This Year
Schools have a rare opportunity to bring unresolved questions about AI and classroom technology into the open. The cost of leaving them unanswered is too high.
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Your school is sending messages to students before a teacher says a word . Are they the messages you intend? Nick Brousse and I share a simple exercise that changes how you see your building in our latest article for @edutopia.org www.edutopia.org/article/stud...
What Is Your Building Communicating to Students?
It can be eye-opening to walk through your school with a student persona in mind, and the audit tool included here can help you find and fix friction points and improve students’ sense of belonging.
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A school’s not run like a company. Here’s how school leadership can engage their school community instead of giving directives. #SchoolLeaders #EduSky
How Administrators Can Effectively Harness Their Influence
Tips on how to exercise leadership by engaging and energizing the members of the school community rather than relying on directives.
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Edutopia Newsletters: The Principal Project
If you’re working to support schools—whether you’re leading one or guiding many—we know you don’t need more noise in your inbox. That’s why The Principal Project newsletter cuts through it all—bringin...
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Every teacher deserves quality coaching and feedback. School leaders Thomas O'Brien and T.J. Vari share 3 ways to provide discipline-specific support that helps math teachers strengthen instruction: www.edutopia.org/article/3-wa...
3 Ways to Give Math Teachers Effective Feedback
School leaders can use these ideas to provide math teachers with discipline-specific insights for improving their instructional practices.
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“Use the first week of school to get to know your students.” Great. But how? In this @edutopia.org podcast, @marcusluther.bsky.social provides some easy-lift, very specific ways to begin building the kind of culture every classroom can benefit from. www.edutopia.org/podcast/how-...
Podcast: How to Jumpstart Belonging in Your Classroom From Day One
The first week of school can set the tone for the entire year. Teacher Marcus Luther shares powerful yet simple routines that build trust, help students feel known, and strengthen the classroom commun...
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“The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.” -John C. Maxwell Make it a great day…or not. The choice is yours. #BeGREAT
This school implemented a weekly reading lab to ensure students complete assigned work—and watched a love for literacy bloom. 🌼📚 Here’s how they did it. #literacy #ELASky
Boosting Students’ Engagement in Reading With Weekly Labs
Schools can use this schedule block to guide students to engage with texts in a structured, collaborative, and joyful environment.
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Many teachers are enjoying a well-earned summer. Administrators are already preparing for the return of their teams & a new school year. My Edutopia article explores how leaders can understand resistance and create greater cohesion among teaching teams: www.edutopia.org/article/buil...
Creating Cohesion Among Teaching Teams
Administrators can rely on research-based methods to better understand educators who are resistant to change.
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Our monthly newsletter has a new look and a sharper focus: practical ideas for the daily work of school and district leadership. Check your subscription status to make sure you’re on the list: www.edutopia.org/principal-pr...
"Instead of focusing only on recognizing high achievers, we started acknowledging growth and progress too. This has ultimately led to higher standardized test scores for almost all students." Read more from leader David LaMaster about how his school team did it: www.edutopia.org/article/scho...
Creating a School Culture Where Progress Is Valued
A middle school incentive program that recognizes effort and growth can help improve student learning outcomes.
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Don’t let your teachers get the back-to-school scaries. See how these 3 principals plan their staff meetings to start the new school year off strong. #SchoolLeaders #TeacherPD
How to Plan Highly Effective Back-to-School Meetings
Strategic advice from three principals about reengaging staff, welcoming new teachers, and plotting out a realistic schedule.
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Confronted with a rapidly evolving technology, many educators have little precedent to draw on when creating classroom-level AI policy. For @edutopia.org, I asked 8 educators across disciplines/ grade levels how they establish shared values + expectations about AI use in their classrooms:
8 Classroom AI Policies Developed by Teachers
Setting clear, shared expectations around student AI use is uncharted territory for many teachers. Educators across disciplines and grade levels share their current policies.
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School leaders, who is heading to Orland for the National School Leaders Conference. I'll be there—would love to connect with folks!
Schools are complex systems, and authority alone rarely drives meaningful change. Leaders also need the kind of influence that engages and energizes their school communities. Robert Feirsen and Seth Weitzman share their best advice for building it: www.edutopia.org/article/how-...
How Administrators Can Effectively Harness Their Influence
Tips on how to exercise leadership by engaging and energizing the members of the school community rather than relying on directives.
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School leaders, @edutopia.org has a new email just for you: Principal Project. You can sign up now to get the next issue TOMORROW: www.edutopia.org/principal-pr...
Edutopia Newsletters: The Principal Project
If you’re working to support schools—whether you’re leading one or guiding many—we know you don’t need more noise in your inbox. That’s why The Principal Project newsletter cuts through it all—bringin...
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