Stories & Announcements

Analyze the posters on your classroom walls. What are the unintended or implicit messages to your students?

How much of your room is devoted to your students versus the teacher?

Track how often you provide generic praise and try some new language for meaningful and supportive, encouraging feedback.

Eat lunch with a small group of students. Talk about something besides school.

Saying “Yes! And…” means being open to student voice and believing their knowledge, questions, and problem-solving open up new routes toward reaching goals.

Teachers do not deliver information into students; children should be the subjects of our work, not the indirect objects.

This thought experiment is a simple way to encourage critical thought about what qualities good leadership requires.

A Graffiti Board can strengthen community, elevate student voice, connect to content, and show students you care about what’s on their minds.

Through this challenge, students build their vocabularies and build productive strategies for communicating feelings and needs to adults and to one another.