Connecting Through Change

Rebuilding Relationships Amid Turnover

Following a period of leadership turnover and uncertainty during the COVID-19 pandemic, a school in the Midwest engaged Center for Inspired Teaching to provide year-long professional development focused on rebuilding school community. 

It will take work to make engagement the norm this year. It will take marshaling our knowledge of observing and listening to kids, giving and receiving feedback, finding the right words to push a learner forward, and applying creative energy to planning lessons that engage all our students’ senses.

— Aleta Margolis