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Investigating Creativity in the Classroom: Research Tools for Teachers and Leaders

creativity, professional development, seeking and measuring broader aims / By Lacey Gonzales

Creativity is the competence to leverage self-interests, motivation, imagination, and prior knowledge in flexible ways1 to generate, evaluate, or improve ideas; imagine new ways of solving problems;2 forge new connections — across content and people;3 create new understanding; or communicate thinking through writing, drawing, voice, music, or any other means of expression.4 At The Learning […]

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Help Your School Leaders Succeed (And Retain Them for the Long Haul)

adult wellbeing, deploying and developing experts, professional development / By Lacey Gonzales

For the last three years, I led my school’s pandemic response — from drafting and rolling out COVID protocols to implementing building health and safety measures — all while leading a community of 600 students and educators through a full return to in-person learning. It was the honor of my professional career but came at

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Step 4: Championing Sustainable Change – Creating systems for leaders, teams, and their initiatives

change management, deploying and developing experts, professional development / By Samantha Brumley

The never-ending cycle of growth and change in schools often elicits mixed reactions. Some see these new trends as much-needed progress, while others “see déjà vu all over again.” Evolving science and research, alongside increased complexity that spurs new trends, bring advancement to the field – but also challenges that can affect the whole community.

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Step 3: Powering Up – Developing a Team Focused on Collective Action

change management, deploying and developing experts, professional development / By Samantha Brumley

“In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.” – Margaret Wheatley. In any industry, the team of people we work with matters, and in schools, where the goals we are working toward are often

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Step 2: Learning to Sprint – Leveraging Small Wins Along the Road Toward Large-Scale Change

change management, deploying and developing experts, professional development / By Samantha Brumley

Referring to all aspects of life as a marathon has become something of a cliche. While the metaphor may feel harmless in many ways, this perspective is problematic for a few reasons. For starters, Pheidippides – the soldier who ran about 25 miles to Athens in 490 BC to announce a victory at the battle

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Flexibility in the Face of Volatility: Three Shifts for Managing Enrollment Fluctuations in District-based Virtual Schools

change management, family engagement, professional development / By Samantha Brumley

In response to pandemic-induced school closures, virtual schools across the country saw enrollment rates skyrocket. At Highline Public Schools’ Highline Virtual Academy in Washington state, for example, enrollment increased from 200 students in grades 6-12 to over 600 in just two weeks during September 2021 – a substantial three-fold increase. As brick-and-mortar schools have reopened,

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Step 1: Designing Collective Futures – Bridging Community Voices & Organizational History to Support Change

change management, innovation, professional development / By Samantha Brumley

Sustainable change in education begins with sharing your needs and vision for what is possible. Although this might seem obvious at first, there are ways we’ve seen leaders supercharge their approach to the task, integrating history with a collective vision for change to lay the foundation for strong change that sticks. In this post in

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Sustainable Change, One Step at a Time

change management, creating new opportunities, innovation, professional development, school design / By Samantha Brumley

We are living in a tumultuous time for education. If you’re feeling more exhausted and frustrated than ever before, you are not alone. The COVID pandemic has created a marathon of emergencies and urgent initiatives, leaving educators and ed leaders stretched thin under continuous stress. As consultants to many of these leaders and school teams,

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Solving Problems in Uncertain Times

change management, family engagement, innovation, professional development, school design / By Samantha Brumley

School and system leaders continue to face numerous trials and tribulations. While vaccines are finally available to most school-age kids, the 2021-22 school year continues to present uncertainty. Between navigating challenges with teacher burnout, shortages in critical positions, and ongoing closures due to the pandemic, the need to navigate through uncertainty with limited resources has

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Big Ideas from Hop, Skip, Leapfrog: Opportunities to Shift from a “Teaching” Profession to a “Learning” Profession

deploying and developing experts, professional development, student-centered learning / By Samantha Brumley

Kristi Ransick is an education consultant with over 25 years experience working in school and curricular innovation. In the wake of initial pandemic-related school closures, Kristi supported work with the Chief Council of State School Officers to develop a “Restart and Recovery” playbook for system leaders and supported members of TLA’s Strategy Lab as they

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Investigating Creativity in the Classroom: Research Tools for Teachers and Leaders

Help Your School Leaders Succeed (And Retain Them for the Long Haul)

Step 4: Championing Sustainable Change – Creating systems for leaders, teams, and their initiatives

Step 3: Powering Up – Developing a Team Focused on Collective Action

Step 2: Learning to Sprint – Leveraging Small Wins Along the Road Toward Large-Scale Change

Flexibility in the Face of Volatility: Three Shifts for Managing Enrollment Fluctuations in District-based Virtual Schools

Step 1: Designing Collective Futures – Bridging Community Voices & Organizational History to Support Change

Sustainable Change, One Step at a Time

Solving Problems in Uncertain Times

Big Ideas from Hop, Skip, Leapfrog: Opportunities to Shift from a “Teaching” Profession to a “Learning” Profession

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