Sharing Student Stories to Bring Your School Identity to Life
Your students’ stories are already unfolding in classrooms, sports fields, extracurricular activities, and the community. How can you collect and ce…
Category: Protocols
Encourage Feedback and Build Consensus: Use the Fist to Five Protocol to Guide Decisions
Building consensus as a school leader is crucial for fostering collaboration, trust, and shared ownership of decisions and direction. By involving sta…
Creating Shared Approaches: Tuning Protocol for Building Consensus
It is critical for school leaders to understand the importance of consensus building within school communities, process feedback, and effectively com…
Open Lines of Communication: Hold Authentic Spaces to Gather Feedback and Have Brave Conversations
Open lines of communication to create brave spaces for your staff, students, and community to share their excitement, hesitations, and to crowdsource …
Engage Your Emotional Intelligence to Improve Staff Retention
Most likely, you've heard or read about how employees don't quit jobs, they quit bosses. One of the most fundamental aspects of leadership is hiring t…
7 Great Leadership Qualities
Not all great leaders are the same or lead in the same way. Educational leaders, specifically, face many different responsibilities and challenges tha…
6 Types of Courage for Inclusive Workplaces
The role of educator—and educational leader—takes heart. And courage. But did you know that courage isn't one-size-fits-all? Not only are there di…
Build Unity Through Change: Engage Staff in Continuous Improvement Processes
Continuous improvement should be embedded in day-to-day work, in a systemized, organic way. You can think of the cyclical process as a formative asses…
Well-Being in Schools: 4 Steps to Building an Approach to Well-Being in Your School
This paper is the first policy research paper in a series on student well-being in IB World Schools. In this resource, the paper provides practical g…
Personalize Your Professional Development: Leadership Scope and Sequence Planning
Portico coach, Jocelyn Bigay, uses this Leadership Scope and Sequence Planning Template within her Copilot sessions to focus goals for the year and id…
