Video Highlights: Dave Schmittou shares some helpful ideas and thoughts when it comes to being the leader your staff, community, and school needs. [bctt tweet=”Every single morning, we would come together for 5-10 minutes, celebrate the day that was, and reward risk-taking from yesterday to encourage it for tomorrow.” username=”daveschmittou”] = [scroll down to keep reading] About Dave Schmittou Entering … Read More
Love a Little Bit Better Valentine’s Day Blog Series
Series Overview Love a little bit better this Valentine’s Day. This series features posts that share strategies for building connections with other educators, building a more positive classroom community, and taking time to appreciate yourself, too. Show kindness to your colleagues, your students, and yourself with simple steps shared in these posts! Links to Posts Building Better Colleague Relationships by … Read More
Give Yourself Permission
TL;DR: Give yourself permission to put yourself first and value self-care, wellness, and social emotional learning. We need to be courageous in our P.A.S.S.I.O.N.—pause, assess, space, speak, insight, open, knowledge. Empower yourself to follow through on your BEST INTENTIONS to show up for YOU. “It’s important to take a daily temperature of your heart.” – Diana Patton, Inspiration in My … Read More
Approaching Learning From a Positive and Proactive Approach
Video Highlights: Katelyn Giordano discusses how to approach and implement a “gradeless” or standards-based classroom and the transformational impact it can have on your students. [bctt tweet=”Your focus then shifts away from marking and from points and taking things away, and transitions to a more positive and productive approach to learning and to assessment.” username=”kngiordano”] [scroll down to keep reading] … Read More
Best Intentions: Hungry for Better
TL;DR: A new learning series, Best Intentions, aims to support, connect, and inspire educators’ desire towards self-improvement. It begins on January 31st in the Teach Better Team Private Facebook Group. Best Intentions is designed to help educators explore self-development in the pursuit of living our most intentionally authentic lives in and out of the classroom. The LIVE monthly conversational-style interviews … Read More