What Do We Do with Screen Time? If you lead an elementary school, you have likely heard the concerns: Screens harm children’s eyes. Screens rewire young brains. Young children need books and blocks, not tablets. The media shares research and warnings; parents raise these worries at back-to-school night and parent meetings; teachers raise them in […]
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 […]
Let’s think differently about how schools can serve students. . . . Learning and Schools Children love to learn! They learn all the time! Schools, however, are frustrated by declining test scores that indicate students are not learning from teachers’ lessons. Sadly, the result is a leaning into more whole-class instruction, more explicit (but not necessarily […]
By guest blogger Tanya Bosco, MBA — Chief Strategy Officer at IDE Corp. Want your teachers to experience mic drop moments during back-to-school planning days? Then stop presenting and start modeling. Whether you have a single day or an entire week before students return, these are some of the most valuable (and most often under-leveraged) […]
Go Beyond the Summer Checklist Summer offers school leaders a rare gift: a (brief) window of clarity. The urgent demands pause. The inbox quiets. As a result, there’s space to think, breathe, and reset before the next school year begins. Then again… many school leaders describe summer quite differently—more like a sprint. It’s a scramble […]