Providing Consistent Feedback to Parents
Why provide feedback? It is vital to provide feedback to parents that recognizes what students are doing well. We often express what students do wrong, but seldom reward and recognize good [...]
How to Teach ALWAYS Actions in Your Classroom
The Teaching ALWAYS Actions™ are “must do” behaviors in the Student Engagement Framework™ (click here for more on this framework). Below, we present a way for teachers to apply these [...]
Developing a Constant and Continuous Communication Plan
Building an effective communication plan should be part of the school year planning process. Typically, when teachers are preparing for the first day or week, they treat a communication plan as [...]
Teaching ALWAYS Actions: Key Skills to Help Every Teacher Succeed
What does engaged and effective teaching look like? There is no single definition or bullet point that shows what effective teachers should look like. We do know, effective teaching doesn’t [...]
3 Tips for Parents Who Want to Be More Involved In Their Child’s Education
Improving student learning is the number one goal for teachers and school leaders. Parents play a major role in achieving this goal. It is vital for parents to be partners in their child’s [...]
Keyword Feedback, Messages
Communicating with key words helps teachers maximize the potential influence of feedback they provide to students. Similarly, how teachers use key words can also help them maximize parent-teacher [...]
Communicate Expectations to Teachers
Great school leaders and great teachers make great schools. To get there, school leaders must recruit, retain, coach, and support effective teaching in their schools. To create school [...]