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Folio Whitepaper: Creating a Culture of Collaboration

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: Building connections and relationships with the Mindful Minute

Join a conversation with Andi Shurley, Principal at Ursuline Academy of Dallas, about how Ursuline uses myFolio’s Mindful Minute tool to attend to faculty well-being and deepen relationships between administrators and faculty across a large school. [0:44] What is your school’s Folio success story? Andi talks about how Ursuline has leveraged the Mindful Minute tool during …

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Five Tips: Making Equity and Inclusion a Professional Growth Theme

by Andy Shaw,  Director of Professional Learning   Events this year — and our nation’s response to them — have shone a spotlight upon the realities of racism and racial injustice in the United States. Seizing this moment, and the momentum that has come with it, many of Folio’s member schools nationwide have chosen to …

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Lessons Learned and Ideas from the Folio Community

School leaders are being innovative and bold in supporting their communities. For teachers and staff, the result has been boosts in morale, a strong sense of ownership, new skills and experiences, and regular reminders that leaders are there for them. In last week’s Folio group leadership coaching session, one-on-one conversations, Member Spotlight presentation, and Mastermind …

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Town Hall Presentation

Town Hall Presentation Added March 18, 2020 The Folio Team hosted their first Town Halls on March 17, creating an opportunity for school leaders to share insights and ideas, and identify the issues and challenges they are grappling with as their schools move to remote learning. Here is Folio Executive Director Meredith Monk Ford’s presentation …

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Maintaining Relationships While Working Apart

By Natika Stewart Director of Membership Success As schools transition to online learning or prepare plans to do so should the situation necessitate it, school leaders are preparing to support a virtual workforce. For most this is a new challenge; teaching and learning is fundamentally about relationships, and as educators, we develop and maintain those …

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