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Assess Your School’s Expansive Opportunities: Ensure Opportunities are Supporting Your Underserved Students

This activity will help your team examine what additional supports and opportunities are at your school and if they are meeting the needs of your stud…

Inflexion February 19, 2021

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Black female teacher holds a globe and smiles as a diverse group of elementary students gather round engaged.

Assess Your Inclusive Practices: Bring Culturally Responsive Practices Into The Daily Routine

This activity will help your leadership team assess and identify how inclusive practices, supports, and structures, such as co-teaching and teaming, a…

Inflexion February 15, 2021

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Two elementary students wear safety goggles as they compete a science activity using flasks filled with blue liquid.

Rate How Student-Centered Your Learning Environment Is: Implement Practices That Are Purposeful & Valuable to Students

This activity will assist your team in developing a shared understanding of what it means to transform the student experience (at the instructional le…

Inflexion February 15, 2021

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Four smiling Black high school students outside shoulder to shoulder with a female in the center as the main focus.

Transform the Student Experience Through Listening: Reflect on How Your Students are Being Heard

This activity is designed to reflect on how you are engaging students to share their experiences, and to garner what they need from school. This is an…

Inflexion February 15, 2021

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Make Sure All Students Have What They Need to Learn: Reflect on Purposeful Learning in Your School

In this activity your team will discuss what purposeful learning means to you (teachers, staff and leaders) in your school, and begin to develop a set…

Inflexion February 11, 2021

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Female teacher and diverse group of students closely examine a robotics component in an engineering class.

Purposeful Learning and Vision for Readiness: Align Instruction to Purposeful Learning

This activity will help you assess how much purposeful learning is happening in your school. By providing an opportunity to reflect on the bright spot…

Inflexion February 11, 2021

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Diverse group of people (different ages, races, genders, etc.) sit in a circle, smiling, and sharing ideas.

Envision the Future of Your School’s Identity: Develop a Shared Understanding of Your School’s Identity

This activity is designed for the entire school community and will be conducted with staff, leadership teams, families, and students. This is an oppor…

Inflexion February 11, 2021

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Group of high school students all dressed in orange tee-shirts and orange face paint cheering their team while multi-colored confetti falls around them.

Discover Your School’s Identity: Rate Your School’s Identity With Your School Leadership Team & Teachers

An activity designed to develop a shared understanding of a school's identity and explore specific values and beliefs that are necessary to implement …

Inflexion February 11, 2021

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Four diverse high school students smiling and walking side by side as a group with a college building behind them.

Develop Life Readiness Pathways: Prepare and Empower Students for Their Futures

Develop schoolwide Life Readiness pathways so students feel prepared and empowered for their next steps. Reflections and activities from all of these …

Inflexion February 11, 2021

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Diverse group of high school students sit in a circle in chairs discussing ideas.

Empower Student Leaders: A Student Activity

This activity will be conducted with your students to allow them an opportunity to think about how they feel empowered at school, and what things (if …

Inflexion February 10, 2021

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