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Member Spotlight: Creating Alignment through Folio Leadership Team Meetings

Join a conversation with Matt Northrup of Oaks Christian School, about how building a habit of Folio-focused leadership team meetings, attended by leaders from multiple divisions and campuses, has supported alignment and intentionality in Oaks Christian’s support for teacher professional growth. [0:27] What is your school’s Folio success story? Matt talks about how a new …

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What Teachers Need Next Year — And How Folio Can Help Provide It

Evaluation & Growth, Teacher Support / By Andrew Shaw

Conversations with member schools have revealed consistent themes as school leaders look ahead to ‘21-’22. As schools reopen, heal, rebuild, and redesign in the coming year, teachers will need four key supports, in the form of Validation, Celebration, Care and Attention, and Collaboration. In order to support teachers, school leaders might look toward these common …

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Student Feedback Surveys: A Thoughtful and Purposeful Process

New Features / By Andrew Shaw

Student feedback can be an essential tool in creating a positive impact on both teaching and learning. Student survey feedback tracks consistency over time and showcases the student’s experience in the classroom. It can show patterns and support teachers in improving practice and achieving their goals. Student survey feedback can be used to affirm work …

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Tackling the “Accountability Dilemma” with Rob Evans

Evaluation & Growth, Member Spotlight, Teacher Support / By Andrew Shaw

Conversations with our member schools reveal that a central challenge for many is an ongoing lack of clear expectations around growth, evaluation, and feedback in their schools. One answer to this challenge is to lean into what Rob Evans terms the “Accountability Dilemma.” In “Be All You Can Be: Tackling the Accountability Dilemma”, Evans — …

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Member Spotlight: Creating intentional observation using the myFolio Roll Call feature

Member Spotlight, New Features, Teacher Support / By Andrew Shaw

Join a conversation with Joe Weinstein-Sears at Emery/Weiner School, about how he uses the Roll Call feature to save time and take an intentional approach to making sure teachers get the attention they need from him in their growth . [0:19] What is your school’s Folio success story? Joe talks about how the Roll Call …

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6 Simple Ways to Help Your School Re-Engage With Professional Growth and Folio

Evaluation & Growth, Teacher Support / By Andrew Shaw

When the the current school year began, some school leaders assessed the bandwidths of their faculty and determined that this would be a year of “no extras.” As faculty were asked to adopt new technologies and platforms to enhance and support their classroom management, some school-wide programs were put on pause. As school leaders look …

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8 Ways to Help Teachers Regenerate and Heal after a Year of Trauma and Resilience

Teacher Support / By Andrew Shaw

The events of the last 12 months have shown us that teachers have superpowers when it comes to their resilience – they have regenerated their approach to teaching and their energy levels, repaired wounds both physical and emotional, and made themselves and their students whole again in ways too numerous to count. (In fact, teachers …

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Folio Whitepaper: Creating a Culture of Collaboration

Community, Evaluation & Growth, Teacher Support / By Andrew Shaw

What would it take for schools to become more collaborative places? What practices distinguish highly collaborative organizations? And if we believe that collaboration enhances learning among students, how can we help teachers learn in more collaborative ways as well? Our team at the Folio Collaborative believes that finding more effective ways to support and enhance …

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Member Spotlight: Focusing on what matters in a difficult year

COVID19, Evaluation & Growth, Member Spotlight / By Andrew Shaw

Join a conversation with John Bracker at Polytechnic School, about how Poly’s commitment to Folio helped the school come together and maintain its focus on professional growth and strategic priorities, even amidst the challenges of the pandemic . [0:29] What is your school’s Folio success story? John talks about how using myFolio to unify …

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An Update is Born: How this month’s myFolio tweaks came to be

New Features / By Andrew Shaw

Users logging into myFolio this week will see a few changes here and there. These tweaks are not as significant as our summer software development, but they nonetheless might be game-changers for many schools. What are the changes, and how do platform modifications like this come to be? Join us on a behind-the-scenes tour of …

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