Tell us about your school: St. Andrew’s Episcopal School is a K-12 co-ed, independent day school in Austin, Texas. We foster a whole child approach to education, nurturing the mind, body, and spirit. We articulate that approach through our four pillars of Scholar, Artist, Athlete, and Servant. What is your professional growth …
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By Meredith Ford and Liz Kornheiser When we first embarked on our Edward E. Ford Foundation Leadership Grant project in 2018, our intention was to enhance the Folio process and experience in a way that would help our schools attract and retain the best teachers. The hypothesis was, and remains, that finding more effective ways …
By Jeremy Goldstein I was meeting with one of our members recently and I was reminded of a session I led with faculty and staff just prior to reconvening a school community in person- this was 2021 and it does seem like a lifetime ago. Some of you may recall sessions where you were …
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 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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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 …
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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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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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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