For many school leaders, faculty meetings have become a necessary frustration. Information must be shared. Updates must be delivered. Time is short. The result is often a meeting built around dissemination: slides, announcements, reminders, and a lingering sense that nothing really changed once everyone left the room. In Students Taking Charge Implementation Guide for Leaders […]
It’s the Screens! Or Is it? Screen time has become the villain in most conversations about young children’s attention, behavior, and learning. Kids can’t focus? Screens!Kids can’t regulate emotions? Screens!Kids don’t reason the way they used to? Screens! Technology does play a role. But blaming screens alone lets the rest of the system completely off […]
Choice and Voice: A Must-Have! Student choice and voice are widely valued concepts in schools today, but what does voice actually look and sound like in practice? Choice is relatively easy to conceptualize. Students may have choices about when they complete work, with whom they collaborate, where they work in the classroom, or how they […]
By guest blogger Nicole Koch The Power of Perseverance Are our classrooms designed to make perseverance possible, or are we unintentionally rescuing students from the struggle that helps them grow? Perseverance is not a personality trait students either have or lack. It is a skill, built through repeated opportunities to encounter challenge, experience temporary uncertainty, […]
Student behavior can disrupt learning, but behavior itself is rarely the root issue. What educators are often witnessing in moments of challenge is dysregulation: a nervous system that has exceeded its current capacity to manage emotion, attention, sensory input, or cognitive demand. When dysregulation is treated as misbehavior, responses tend to focus on compliance. When […]