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Source: 17 Incredible Onboarding Statistics [2023]: HR Trends In Hiring, Training, And Retention
Get Ready for Next Year: Onboarding New Teachers: Building Strong Relationships from the Beginning
You've interviewed and hired your new teachers, and now you're thinking about how to "onboard" your new staff members so that they immediately feel like an important part of the school culture and family. Why is it important, and what are some ideas for how to do it successfully?
Also, How to Onboard New Teachers So They Want to Stay
Also, How to Improve the Employee Experience
Also, How an Effective Onboarding Process Supports New Teacher Retention
Also, this New Teacher Induction Book
45 team-building games that will bring your team together
Team-building games bring everyone together without the added pressure of work. Here, we’ve listed 45 of the top team-building activities broken down by icebreaker, problem solving, indoor, and outdoor games.
Health and Safety: Review Your Threat Assessment Protocols
SchoolSafety.gov’s latest issue brief outlines information and strategies to create or enhance a K-12 threat assessment and reporting program. This new publication also includes a listing of aligned resources, guides, reports, toolkits, and trainings to support schools in these efforts. Download the new threat assessment and reporting issue brief.
Health and Safety: Measles in Texas: What Private Schools Can Do During the Ongoing Outbreak
“The recent and ongoing measles outbreak in Texas has raised significant concerns among educators, parents, and health officials. As the number of cases continues to rise and spread around the state, including the recent announcement of a first confirmed case in Harris County, private schools must take steps to ensure the safety and well-being of their students and staff.”
Summer Project: Essential Considerations for Scheduling
“We've compiled these essential strategies from ASCD authors Nathan Levenson and David James to help transform the often overwhelming scheduling process into an opportunity to enhance both student learning and teacher effectiveness.”
Teaching and Learning: Evidence-Based Practices for Algebra I Access, Placement, and Success
“This research brief synthesizes decades of evidence to guide district and school leaders on when students should take Algebra I, how they should be placed, and what supports promote success.”
Teaching and Learning: Get Active: Creative Ways to Integrate Movement and Learning
“Amidst teacher shortages and growing class sizes, pandemic learning losses and mounting behavioral issues, it can feel overwhelming trying to incorporate one more thing into the school day. But the connection between movement and health (not only physical, but also mental) is well established, and educators who incorporate activity into their classrooms are seeing the benefits—from fewer behavioral issues, to greater student engagement, and more productive lessons.”
Marketing: Google Is Removing School Reviews — What You Need to Know
What Google has announced, why it matters, other review sites, and how to strengthen your review strategy.
Leadership: What can we learn from Gregg Popovich about leadership?
“In 29 seasons, Popovich guided the Spurs to five NBA championships, won a record 1,466 games in the regular season and left a legacy as one of the best leaders in NBA history, a culture builder who transformed San Antonio into a model franchise. These are four of our favorite Popovich leadership lessons:”
Leadership: Five Mistakes to Avoid to be a REALLY Good Listener
“When we conducted a comprehensive review of 117 academic papers on workplace listening—whether it happened in individual conversations or in team or larger meetings—we found that this skill is far easier to describe than to display.”
Leadership: 10 Principles for School Leaders When DEI + Belonging Are Attacked
“School leaders, whose greatest charge is to protect every child at their school and ensure their learning environments, among an array of responsibilities from balancing budgets to recruiting teachers amidst a global shortage, to staying up-to-date on the latest in brain science, discipline, grading, universities, supply chains, demanding parents, and more, are now charged to figure out what it means to comply with anti-discrimination laws and simultaneously not be “promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion.””
Culture and Climate: Setting the Conditions for Learning: Why Belonging and Great Teaching Always Matter
“What does belonging actually look like in the classroom? In a 2024 piece called Belonging is a Pedagogical Strategy in Think Differently and Deeply, Volume 5. This piece sought to provide specific questions for educators to consider. Explore this article and read through this list and take a moment to think about how you or your colleagues would respond to them?
Culture and Climate: From Belonging to Mattering
“Belonging is feeling welcomed and accepted in a group, whereas mattering is feeling significant to the group’s individual members. Mattering is an even more fundamental need than belonging.”
Something to Share with your Parents: How NOT to Motivate your Kids
“Raising humans is an imperfect, iterative process. The current parenting landscape—which for many families is defined by an ever-present worry over achievement—can lead moms and dads to focus on what children lack rather than on where they excel.”
New Civil Rights Fraud Initiative Puts More Pressure on Higher Ed and K-12 Schools Receiving Federal Funding: What to Do in Response
"Aggrieved individuals – or simply those who believe a school has run afoul of the administration’s policies – are now able to file their own federal lawsuits against higher education institutions and K-12 schools for alleged violations. What should you school do to respond to this new development?"
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