Ditch the Clip: PBIS Alternatives to the Clip Chart
Clip charts have been a common classroom strategy for many years. Once considered an effective tool for displaying behavioral progress and adherence t…
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…
Planning & Assessing Continuous School Improvement: Implement the PDSA Process & Template
This Plan, Do, Study, Act/Adjust (PDSA) template is designed to help district, building, and teacher leaders connect actions taken to the direct resul…
Just Breathe: Teach Your Students Belly Breathing for Self-Regulation and Well-Being
Managing your feelings requires the ability to respond to strong emotions in an appropriate way. In this belly breathing for kids activity, students w…
Student Cell Phone Policy: Best Practices for Student Success
As principal of Milwaukie High School, Carmen Gelman (now Director of Professional Development, Coalition of Oregon School Administrators, COSA) worke…
Student Surveys: Evaluate and Elevate Your School’s Tiers of Support
In this segment, he shares examples of how focused and meaningful student surveys can help keep MTSS efforts, programs, and vision on-track to ensure …
Expansive Opportunities: Evaluate and Elevate Your School’s Tiers of Support
In this segment, he explains the concept and provides examples of how expansive opportunities—in addition to traditional MTSS tiers of support—ens…
The Brain-Body Connection: Adopt Cross-Curricular Approaches in Elementary by Combining PE and Literacy
Teaching physical education is the only content area that educates students in all three of the learning domains – the cognitive, the affective, and…
The Brain-Body Connection: Adopt Cross-Curricular Approaches in Elementary by Combining PE and Math
Teaching physical education is the only content area that educates students in all three of the learning domains – the cognitive, the affective, and…
Empowering Educators and Students: Adopt the “Leader In Me” Program at Your School
Leader in Me is based on a theory of change known as the See-Do-Get Cycle. When you change the way you See things, it influences what you Do and …