How to Build Staff Culture
Leadership | School-Culture
As part of a new video series from E3 Alliance, Matt Pope, Chief Transformation Officer, brings you top tips to help grow and strengthen your leadership, especially during these unprecedented times.
Your staff is the most important people on the front lines engaging with your families and students. Matt offers three tips on maintaining positive staff culture. Strengthening, supporting and loving your staff is crucial. Hear from Matt!
How to Build Student Culture
Leadership | School-Culture
Matt Pope, Chief Transformation Officer, brings you top tips to help grow and strengthen your student culture.
With a such a challenging few weeks that highlighted a massive disruption in routines and relationships for your students, Matt offers three ways to continue supporting every student and building student culture. Hear from Matt!
Leading Staff through Culture Building
Leadership | School-Culture
Learn how to broadcast and align your language to build a positive, focused culture on your campus using your mission, vision, values, and collective commitments.
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Maximizing Distance Learning
Leadership | Effective-Instruction
School buildings may be closed for the rest of the year, but learning and academic progress continues remotely. In this episode of Ed Chats with Matt, Matt focuses on three areas to ensure your school is maximizing distance learning. Hear from Matt!
Planning for the 2020-21 School Year
Leadership
How to plan for next year is the topic in this episode of Ed Chats with Matt. Before developing a comprehensive plan, first identify the challenges. Matt Pope, E3’s Chief Transformation Officer, suggests three questions to first ask your leadership team or staff. Hear from Matt!
In Part 2, Matt offers school leaders brainstorming prompts on planning for next year. He offers three potential opportunities to leverage future school years.
Problem-Solution Process for Leadership Teams
Leadership
Although we might not have been prepared for our current reality, we do know potential challenges coming out of COVID-19 when school starts in the fall. That's why it's imperative school leaders build capacity, create commitment, and develop a flexible plan to support students and staff. In this episode of Ed Chats with Matt, Matt focuses on a three-step, problem-solution process you can perform with staff. Hear from Matt!
Attendance Strategies
Leadership
Experts are predicting we could see large declines in student attendance this fall due to challenges from COVID-19. In this episode of Ed Chats with Matt, Matt provides three simple strategies that will get you on the right track.
Staff Culture: Part 2
Leadership
Matt Pope, E3’s Chief Transformation officer, returns to the discussion on Staff Culture. Matt offers three more suggestions on building and strengthening this critical component to school success. Great ideas you can do this summer virtually and one tried-and-true method everyone appreciates.
Racial Equity and School Leadership
Leadership | Special-Populations
As we prepare to lead our schools next year, we must be beacons of hope and ambassadors of equity. We must work to end systematic racism and inequities in our schools. In this week’s Ed Chats with Matt, Chief Transformation Officer Matt Pope provides three approaches school leaders can take to begin this work.
Equitable High Quality Instruction
Leadership | Special-Populations | Effective-Instruction
In this episode Ed Chats with Matt, our Chief Transformation Officer, Matt Pope, focuses on how to provide equitable, high-quality instruction for all students. Matt discusses three fundamental areas of concentration you can work on now in preparation for the 2020-21 school year and beyond.
Leading Effective Professional Development
Leadership
As a campus leader, learn how to lead effective professional development with staff and work as a group to plan.
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Building and Supporting a Positive Student Culture
School-Culture
Discover how to help students feel like they belong, then make a way for them by giving them the building blocks to a strong, positive student culture.
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Make Your Systems Work
Leadership
Systems are the key to making a good school GREAT! Learn about the four components of an effective system and the five-step process your leadership team can follow to make your systems even stronger.
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Effective Instruction to Ensure ALL Students Learn
Effective-Instruction
It is more important than ever that every instructional minute is productive. Learn the important aspects of effective instruction for all classrooms to ensure all students learn.
Student Attendance Systems and Support
Leadership | School-Culture | Special-Populations
To benefit from campus culture and instruction, students must attend school regardless of modality. Learn how to upgrade your attendance team, ensure systems are in place to collect attendance data, and provide options that support all students.
Student Leadership in Learning and Beyond
Leadership | School-Culture
How will you engage your students this year? Provide pathways for students to become leaders of their school, classrooms, and themselves to deepen their connections with campus life.
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Road to Recovery
Leadership
The Road to Recovery series will help to overcome challenges you are facing and will assist in the development of a Priority Playbook for school success.
Part 1 focuses on the five priority planning areas, actionable strategies for successful leadership, and the Exclusive Recovery Tool.
Part 2 takes a deeper dive into our Priority Playbook and how to adapt for your school with tangible examples for each category.
Part 3 guides you in the areas of safety, attendance, culture and instruction to guide you in the Road to Recovery and develop a plan to move forward towards Recovery and Transformation.
Part 4 provides ideas on how to modify and adapt current plans for continued success into the spring semester.
Part 5 shares actionable strategies to focus on what kids need to know, instead of what they are missing, and to ensure “acceleration” is integrated through all systems and practices.
Join us for the sixth installment on April 20 at 4:00 pm (CST). School leaders will gain insight and inspiration through ideas for reintegration of students and staff for a strong start to the 2021-22 school year. "Reintegration" of our schools literally means to "restore them to unity." We will focus on A Place to Belong, prioritizing school culture, and helping leaders take action and plan now for leading their schools toward recovery and transformation. Register for Road to Recovery Part 6 today!
Road to Recovery: Part 1 Resources
Road to Recovery: Part 2 Resources
Road to Recovery: Part 3 Resources
Road to Recovery: Part 4 Resources
Road to Recovery: Part 5 Resources
Top 5 Priorities for Improving Student Attendance
Special-Populations | School-Culture
Top 5 Priorities for Students Right Now
Special-Populations | School-Culture
Attendance Protocol
Special-Populations | School-Culture
Cultural Data Protocol
School-Culture
Professional Collaboration Index
Special-Populations | Effective-Instruction
Use this decision-making tool for evaluating the professional educator mindset and practice of collaboration and learning in your school community.
7 Students, 7 Teachers
School-Culture
Through improvised role play, participants will gain insight into the challenges facing adolescents enrolled in a traditional, public middle school. These students are asked to move typically between seven different classrooms that vary in expectations, processes and systems. It is inordinately challenging for students to manage the transitions and perform successfully.
The Campus Instructional Playbook Checklist
Effective-Instruction
Protocol for Leveraging Data
Leadership
ELL Rubric
Special-Populations
The ELL Rubric is a research-based tool originally developed in fall of 2009 and piloted in spring 2010 by members of the Central Texas ELL Collaborative. It has been updated to include promising practices supporting academic growth identified in the spring of 2013 through research conducted in the Bright Spots Study for English Language Learners.
Resources
Attendance Strategies: Part 2
Special-Populations | School-Culture
In this episode of Ed Chats with Matt, Chief Transformation Officer Matt Pope highlights three more tips education leaders can do now to heighten students' and staff attendance and engagement.
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How to Build a Place of Belonging with Staff
School-Culture
This episode’s Ed Chats with Matt covers how to foster a place to belong with your staff. You don't need a building to make this happen. Matt offers three tips to connect with staff, involve them, especially teachers who are on the front line, and build commitment.
Leading the Start of the 2020-21 School Year
Leadership
In this episode of Ed Chats with Matt, he provides strategies that focus on safety, culture, and instruction to ensure you are ready to launch into a great school year!
Hybrid School Walk Through Example
Leadership | Effective-Instruction
School leaders can use this detailed document to share with their educators to support professional learning and coaching, particularly through this year of in-person, virtual and asynchronous classrooms.
Why Focusing on School Culture is Crucial
Leadership | School-Culture
What is School Culture? How does it work? What are the best strategies and tools to build a positive culture for your students and staff? Watch this short video for helpful tips.
Your Campus Instructional Playbook
Leadership | Effective-Instruction
Keep your Campus Instructional Playbook alive during virtual learning. Watch this short video to learn some ideas that will bring continuity to your staff and students.
Using the Unit Organizer: RaiseUp Texas
Leadership | Effective-Instruction
Access ideas and tips on using your unit organizer in this short video, such as adding links, assigning tasks, and employing web apps.
Online Learning Resource Guide
Leadership | Effective-Instruction | Special-Populations
Whether virtual learners are adults or students, we believe online learning will be an intricate part of our education system moving forward. This resource guide includes tips, strategies, and best practices to help you engage in an online environment that fosters learning, thoughtful discourse, and reflective dialogue and feedback.
Resources
Top 5 Priorities for Instructional Coaches Right Now
Leadership | Effective-Instruction | Special-Populations | School-Culture
Top 5 Priorities for Principals Right Now
Leadership | Effective-Instruction | Special-Populations | School-Culture
Top 5 Priorities for Teachers Right Now
Leadership | Effective-Instruction | Special-Populations | School-Culture
School Culture
Leadership | School-Culture
Chief Transformation Officer Matt Pope provides a quick review on the foundation of a positive school culture.
Effective Instruction in Any Modality
Leadership | Effective-Instruction
Listen to a Minute with Matt to learn how to monitor and support your teachers to ensure success for all.
Family Engagement
Leadership | School-Culture
Chief Transformation Officer Matt Pope gives you quick tips you can implement today to engage your families.
How to Make Equity the Focus
Leadership | Effective-Instruction| Special-Populations | School-Culture
Learn strategies to help guide you to ensure equity for ALL from Chief Transformation Officer Matt Pope.
Be the Best Leader You Can Be
Leadership | School-Culture
Matt Pope, Chief Transformation Officer, talks about facing incredible challenges and the need to be the best leaders possible.
Match Activities to Standards
Leadership | Effective-Instruction | Special-Populations
Listen to Chief Transformation Officer Matt Pope for tips on how to support teachers to ensure activities and lessons always correlate to the standards.
Day 1 Plan
Leadership | Effective-Instruction | Special-Populations | School-Culture
Matt Pope, Chief Transformation Officer, shares strategies to guide you in your work as you continuously phase in students onto campus.
Filtering and Sharing Communications
Leadership | School-Culture
Matt Pope, Chief Transformation Officer, provides helpful tips to help directly align strategies and messaging of your school.
How and Why Attendance Equals Engagement
Leadership | School-Culture
Discover how and why attendance equals engagement. We discuss two options on how to support student attendance: ask questions about your data and help students get to school.
More Attendance Resources
Top 5 Ideas for Virtual Professional Development
Leadership | School-Culture
For each of these ideas, organization and structure is the KEY! Download the PDF below the graphic for details on each of these virtual PD ideas.
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Top 5 Ways to Engage Families of Remote Learners
Leadership | Effective-Instruction | School-Culture | Special-Populations
Right Here, Right Now
Effective-Instruction
Learn about responsive instructional practices the E3 team has observed and supported over the last 10 months. We have continued to partner with and work alongside districts and schools throughout the challenges presented during this extraordinary year. As a result, we have developed a unique perspective and acquired a focused set of experiences we’d like to share.
Attendance Tiered Support Menu Template
Leadership | School-Culture
Download this template for your school's attendance team to use when identifying the three tiers of support in student attendance.
Supporting and Monitoring Effective Instruction
Leadership | Effective-Instruction
Effective instruction is the #1 factor in determining student achievement, especially as we avoid turning the COVID-19 situation into a generational education crisis. We discuss how to support effective instruction with your educators and how to monitor the work.
Keeping Culture Alive
School-Culture | Leadership
Uncover new ideas and examples on school culture that you can share with your campus leaders. You’ll dig into why school culture is a priority, how to use leadership work to support culture and inspire leaders to foster that culture.
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Attend - Commit - Engage: Resources for Schools and Families to ACE the School Year
School-Culture | Leadership
A team of Central Texas educators and practitioners came together to address the new challenges of student attendance, commitment, and engagement and created resources for schools to use. The new Attend - Commit - Engage campaign is a result of their work to promote a partnership between schools and families that allow students to ACE their school year.
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Alleviate Stress on Campus
Leadership | School-Culture
Matt Pope, Chief Transformation Officer, explains his ideas on lightening the load you and your staff may be needing.
Managing Time
Leadership | School-Culture
Matt Pope, Chief Transformation Officer, shares tips on how to manage your time that will benefit you and your staff!
Start the New Year Right
Leadership | School-Culture
How do we start a new year in the right direction? Matt Pope, Chief Transformation Officer, says to center on your mindset and behavior.
Get on the Right Track Right Now
Leadership | School-Culture
Have you been holding off on making a change even though you KNOW something isn't working? NOW is the time to let go of the apprehension and take the leap. Matt gives three tips to help you think through the challenge.
Capitalize on Opportunities Today
Leadership | School-Culture
In this Ed Chat, Chief Transformation Officer Matt Pope talks about two opportunities that have emerged from the countless challenges these past 10 months. These silver linings can help school leaders finish the academic year strong and plan for a more robust fall.