Elevating Diverse Student Voices: Empower Student Engagement and Agency
During a Crowdsource Coffee on December 7, 2023, Portico leaders, coaches, and facilitators shared their experiences and discussed new ideas for how …
Category: Blog Posts
Maximize Your School Identity Work: 5 Benefits of School Identity Work
Use this resource to evaluate and reflect on how you're maximizing the benefits of your school's identity work, and then create an action plan for are…
The Five Shifts: Helping School Leaders Think Differently, Act Boldly, and Embrace Transformation
To truly help schools thrive, leaders need to think differently, act boldly, and embrace transformation. That’s where these five critical shifts com…
Use Another Word: Incorporating Student Voice in Key Decisions at All Levels
When Carmen Gelman—Ms. G to her students—arrived at Springfield High School as the new assistant principal, racial tension filled the campus and f…
Passion. Pride. Promise. Two Leaders Help Pave the Way for Their Students & Communities
Tucked away in the hills of rural western Oregon, the Vernonia and Gaston school districts defy many of the stereotypes most of us hold when we think …
3 Elements of a Team: Building the Capacity of a Leadership Team
This short video and brief reflection activity can help you assess whether your school's leadership team(s) are complete and effective and reflect on …
The Self-Made Myth: Identify and Address Systemic Inequities
With the best of intentions, we still often fall short of actually addressing systemic inequities because of lingering beliefs about "the American dre…
A Source of Strength and Community: How Identity Keeps Santiam Canyon United Even When Everything Else is Falling Apart
Santiam Canyon Superintendent, Todd Miller, shares how their school district's identity and maxims are a source of community and strength, especially …
Above and Below the Surface Elements of a School Community: Understand & Evaluate Your School’s Identity
There's a lot of talk about school community, climate, culture, and identity and how they're all so important. But what exactly are they and how can y…
Simon Sinek on the Future of Education: The Change That’s Needed and the Change That’s Possible
As leaders in education, it's easy to lose sight of the bigger purpose of education when there's the day-to-day to keep you busy (and let's face it, t…