Student Empowerment: Support Student-Led Social Change
This activity is designed to make you think about what matters to your students when it comes to leading for change. What do they feel empowered to do…
Component: Step 2: Set Goals and Take Action
Co-create a vision of the skills, dispositions, and behavior that you are trying to achieve for all students. Find a north star, and backwards map from that vision to create the goals and identify the actions that will get you there. School leaders strengthen bidirectional communication with the entire school community, including families, to partner in supporting students.
Hiring and Retaining Top Talent: The Importance of Site Leadership and Identity Alignment
It doesn't need to be in the news for us to know: hiring and retaining teachers and school staff is an increasingly difficult task. And it's also the …
Rethinking Master Schedules: Build a School Day That Prioritizes People
An effective master schedule is so much more than making sure the bells ring on time. It not only sets the pace for the school and community, but it c…
Develop Leaders of Today and Tomorrow: Create Student Leadership Opportunities
Create leadership courses and set up structures for students to take on meaningful leadership roles, empower their voices, and engage them in decision…
Foster Students’ Sense of Self and Community: Develop a Community Service-Based Project Course
Develop a course where students do a community service based project.
Foster Community Engagement: 9 Steps to Establishing a District Family Engagement Team
There is growing recognition, grounded in research, that effective family engagement can contribute to improved student outcomes and to closing persis…
Unified and Equitable School Structure: 7 Steps to Implement PBIS Via Schoolwide Values
Some schools are embracing a comprehensive system based on Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS). This resource walks you through steps …
Purposeful, Valuable Learning: Foster Learners With Autonomy and Drive
This activity will assist your team in learning how to foster students with autonomy, drive, and endurance through instructional routines and school r…
Structures that Elevate Student Voice in Equitable Ways: Empowering Students While They Develop Life Skills
Carmen Gelman, Director of Professional Development at COSA, is all about student voice and equity. She joined Portico for a Crowdsource on December …
Reinforce Your School’s Identity to Launch The New Year With Momentum
We had the pleasure of hosting a Crowdsource webinar with Courtney Spelber from the Huntington Beach Union High School District on January 19, 2023. C…