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Making Legal Change

Making Legal Change

June 16, 2020 | Administrators Parents Teachers

Listen This is the final article in our series for educators who want to advocate for changes in their community, state, and national government in regard to education. This article gives tips on how to affect changes to the law - either by introducing something new or by amending laws...

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Approaching the Board

Approaching the Board

June 15, 2020 | Administrators Parents Teachers

Listen In our last few articles, we’ve discussed the reasons and ways you can (and should) advocate for change within the school system. In this article, we want to specifically talk about working with your district’s school board in creating and advocating change. Let’s begin by talking about who the...

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Presenting Ideas for Change Mindfully and Effectively

Presenting Ideas for Change Mindfully and Effectively

June 12, 2020 | Administrators Parents Students Teachers

Listen It is always wise to know your audience, but this rings particularly true when you are addressing an administrator who is in a supervisory role to you. It’s safe to say that every campus has its clicks. Within those groups, there are teachers who have a closer personal relationship...

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Be the Change

Be the Change

June 11, 2020 | Administrators Curriculum Performance Student Achievement Students Teachers

Listen If you’ve ever walked into a break room at lunchtime, you know that all of the educational experts are sitting in that room talking about the problems and solutions of day-to-day classroom life. And yet, it seems as though the experts are never the people making the decisions! Teachers...

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How to Advocate for Change: A General Guide for Teachers and Paraprofessionals

How to Advocate for Change: A General Guide for Teachers and Paraprofessionals

June 10, 2020 | Administrators Planning Students Teachers

Listen Present the Facts Once you are prepared, don’t just show up at your principal’s door or a board meeting without an appointment. After all that work, you need your administrator to listen to you and give you their undivided attention for 20 to 30 minutes. Arrive on time for...

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How to Advocate for Change: A General Guide for Teachers and Paraprofessionals

How to Advocate for Change: A General Guide for Teachers and Paraprofessionals

June 09, 2020 | Administrators Planning Students Teachers

Listen So far in this series, we’ve talked about narrowing your focus to one specific need or complaint, gathering others to help you make a change, and identifying the decision-maker(s) you should address in asking for changes.Today we’ll focus on something many teachers overlook or skip: doing your homework. We’re...

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How to Advocate for Change: A General Guide for Teachers and Paraprofessionals

How to Advocate for Change: A General Guide for Teachers and Paraprofessionals

June 08, 2020 | Administrators Planning Students Teachers

Listen In our last post, we talked about the need for educators, as the only experts in the field currently, to step up and share information about what they and their students need especially in this time of pandemic and unrest. On the whole, teachers do not like that they...

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How to Advocate for Change: A General Guide for Teachers and Paraprofessionals

How to Advocate for Change: A General Guide for Teachers and Paraprofessionals

June 05, 2020 | Administrators Planning Students Teachers

Listen We’ve already established that the experts on what is going on with you and your students in crisis learning, remote learning, and the changes coming to education in the near future are teachers and the students themselves. Yet many teachers feel (as they always have in education) completely powerless....

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For Retirees: Finding Closure Amidst the Pandemic

For Retirees: Finding Closure Amidst the Pandemic

June 04, 2020 | Administrators Teachers

Listen After years in education, decades spent saving up for retirement, and countless hours invested in colleagues and students, this year may be anticlimactic for retiring teachers. Some are even being pushed into retirement earlier than they’d like because of the possibility of an unsure environment of physical safety in...

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District Toolkit Needs Learning In 2020-2021

District Toolkit Needs Learning In 2020-2021

June 02, 2020 | Administrators Curriculum Organization Students Teachers

Listen States and local districts across the United States are preparing to pivot away from crisis learning and toward something a little more stable and workable for the 2020-2021 school year. As educators and former educators ourselves, we can see the daunting tasks district and building administrators are facing that...

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What Do Schools Need to Do to Prepare for the Fall? Part 2

What Do Schools Need to Do to Prepare for the Fall? Part 2

June 01, 2020 | Administrators Curriculum Health Mental Health Parents Planning Stress Students Teachers

Listen In our previous article in this series, we addressed the fact that schools need to prepare plans A, B, & C as well as a hybrid of the three and the fact that teachers will need continued support. Consider Accessibility for Both Students and Teachers The last three months...

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What Do Schools Need to Do to Prepare for the Fall? Part 1

What Do Schools Need to Do to Prepare for the Fall? Part 1

May 28, 2020 | Administrators Curriculum Mental Health Parents Planning Stress Students Teachers

Listen We only have three months to get ready for whatever school is going to look like in the fall. With so many unknowns, we are all having to plan for several different scenarios. One of the big lessons learned from the experiences this spring is that we have to...

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