Teacher Support

Using the Eisenhower Matrix to improve your team

  Urgent Not Urgent Important Quadrant I — Do/Reduce Crisis Deadline Work Pressing Problems Quadrant II — Schedule Long Term Planning, Strategic Work Relationship Building Personal Growth Not Important Quadrant III — Delegate Interruptions Email Scheduling Quadrant IV — Delete/Eliminate Trivial, Busy Work Meetings without agendas   In a 1954 speech, President Dwight D. Eisenhower …

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What teachers need next year — and how Folio can help provide it

What Teachers Need Next Year — And How Folio Can Help Provide It Conversations with member schools have revealed consistent themes as school leaders look ahead to ‘21-’22. We are hearing that teachers need: Validation, Celebration, Care and Attention, Collaboration. In order to support teachers, school leaders might look toward these common themes to build …

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Making Professional growth a strategic priority: Guiding Principles for Transformation with Folio

Through elevating teachers and teaching and by making professional growth a strategic priority, Folio Collaborative helps school leaders drive change. This change and transformation happen as reflecting, experimenting, questioning, collaborating, and providing feedback become normal aspects of school life through the Folio platform, community, and trainings. At Folio, we think teachers are the best people …

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8 ways to help teachers regenerate and heal after a year of trauma and resilience

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

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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Tackling the “Accountability Dilemma” with Rob Evans

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

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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Introducing Your Faculty and Staff to the New Features in myFolio

https://vimeo.com/446792318/8e8f3f2a9fThe myFolio experience is now more intentional, more actionable, and easier for your faculty and staff to incorporate into their daily routine so that professional growth and learning is a continual, rewarding process. New! myFolio Folio’s online experience is now called myFolio. The entire experience has a cleaner, fresher look, making myFolio more enjoyable to …

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

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

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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