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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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 helps school leaders overcome challenges and helps to develop 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.
Part 6 gives insight and inspiration through ideas for reintegration of students and staff to help start the 2021-22 school year strong.
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
Road to Recovery: Part 6 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.
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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.
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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
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.
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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.
ACE Webinar for Central Texas Educators:
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Simplify to Amplify, Part 1
Leadership | Effective-Instruction
In this first Work Smarter NOT Harder episode, Leticia Maynard explains how to gain time by simplifying WHAT you are teaching to the critical focus standards and spend time on the things that matter most for student mastery and future success.
Simplify to Amplify, Part 2
Leadership | Effective-Instruction | School-Culture
In this Work Smarter NOT Harder episode, Amy Havard shares HOW to amplify the work you KNOW makes a difference by taking the time to do it right.
Student Engagement
Leadership | Effective-Instruction | School-Culture
In this Work Smarter NOT Harder episode, Lori Davis explains how to set the tone to improve student engagement. Listen for ideas to get students to attend and ENGAGE.
Getting to the Root of the Problem
Leadership
Getting to the root of a problem changes the way you think about how to solve it effectively. In this Work Smarter Not Harder episode, Janelle and Tim Persall explain a valuable strategy to help pinpoint the true cause so an appropriate solution can be designed. Only then can you move forward in transformation!
Connections Matter
Leadership | School Culture
Whether students are learning remotely or in person, connections matter. They help students get better grades, score well on tests, attend school more regularly, and stay in school longer. How can we do this? In this Work Smarter NOT Harder episode, Teri Clement explains how to launch CREWS on your campus.
Leading Change
Leadership | School-Culture
Lead Change using a coaching mindset of ABC - Always Be Coaching. This means finding the daily, countless occasions, in between the typical coaching opportunities, to incorporate this approach. In this Work Smarter NOT Harder episode, Teri Clement explains how to carry out this important mindset for school leaders.
Accelerated Learning for ALL
Leadership | Effective-Instruction
The events of this past year have widened opportunity gaps for students, making accelerated learning essential for leaders looking forward to next year. In this Work Smarter NOT Harder episode, Amy Havard explains the meaning of accelerated learning and how to transform your thinking to look forward.
Strategic Staffing
Leadership | School-Culture
Build and keep the “right” team by staffing strategically to support accelerated learning for ALL students. In this Work Smarter NOT Harder episode, Lori Davis explains how to ensure the highest quality professionals are engaged and working in the system of shared beliefs.
The Pandemic Principal
School-Culture | Effective-Instruction | Leadership
As education dramatically shifted during the COVID-19 pandemic, the work of the principal also evolved and intensified. Matt Pope, Chief Transformation Officer, breaks down this leadership role and provides three key things to focus on as leaders move forward during this ongoing opportunity to transform.
Scheduling Accelerated Learning
Leadership | Effective-Instruction | School-Culture
How do you find time for accelerated learning for all students during the school day? Get creative! Try these ideas from Tim and Janelle Persall.
Leadership Power Moves
School-Culture | Leadership
As we determine new actions to improve attendance, fine-tune effective instruction, and tackle so many other difficult challenges magnified by the pandemic, school leaders are faced with steering the work. How can you best react to these challenges? Leticia Maynard, Director of School Transformation, suggests these three power moves to strengthen your leadership: listen, let go, and love.
How to Build Accelerated Learning Mindset Among Staff
Leadership | Effective-Instruction
How do you build an Accelerated Learning mindset for all staff? Here is an example of how to use an article or book that will provide the why and a shared language for moving forward as a campuswide team. Get all the details on how to successfully carry out the activity by listening to E3's Amy Havard.
Post-Pandemic Fuel for Growth: Webinar Series
School-Culture | Leadership
There has been much talk about recovery, but not many solid ideas about HOW school and district leaders can lead. For schools and districts to thrive next year and beyond, a new mindset and approach is critical. Watch our recorded webinar sessions with Lesli Laughter, Chief Academic Officer at 806 Technologies, and Matt Pope, Chief Transformation Officer at E3 Alliance.
Part 1 | Frame, Focus, Move Forward focuses on developing a planning tool and framework that sets you up for success.
Post-Pandemic: Part 1 Resources
Part 2 | Forward Momentum guides you on strengthening resilience and increasing shared leadership while learning a framework to add to your leadership toolbox.
Post-Pandemic: Part 2 Resources
Steps to Amplify Learning
Effective-Instruction | Leadership
Tim and Janelle Persall provide the steps in examining courses and selecting those standards that are most essential within each unit for mastery of the course as a whole.
5 Pandemic Positives to Leverage for Real Change
School-Culture | Leadership | Effective-Instruction
Director of School Transformation, Teri Clement, highlights 5 unexpected but welcome gains that educators, if properly leveraged, could catapult schools over some long-standing barriers and into a new era of innovation and progress.
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Instructional Leadership Systems
Effective-Instruction | School-Culture | Leadership
School leaders must be more strategic than ever about the systems used to lead effective instruction for our students.
Watch this two-part series on Accelerated Learning for ALL. Target audience: classroom teachers, teacher leaders, principals, assistant principals, and instructional coaches.
Part 1: Instructional Leadership Systems addresses the WHY and HOW so educators can ensure they are moving away from a remediation mindset to one of acceleration that focuses on what students need to know, instead of what they are missing.
Accelerated Learning for ALL: Part 1 Resources
Part 2: Instructional Strategies provides guidance on how classroom teachers can implement planning and instructional strategies to accelerate learning with a laser focus on the current grade-level essential standards.
Accelerated Learning for ALL: Part 2 Resources
Top 5 Must-Knows About Accelerated Learning
Effective-Instruction | Leadership
Interactive Game Board for Professional Learning
School-Culture | Leadership
Watch Teri Clement explain the idea of an interactive game board as part of your campus professional learning for staff.
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Top 5 Ways to Build Relationships in Schools
School-Culture | Leadership
Top 5 Relationship-Building Actions for Principals
School-Culture | Leadership
Designing a Meaningful Start for Staff and Students
School-Culture | Leadership | Effective-Instruction
Each August school leaders have an opportunity to set the tone and create the conditions on campus where everyone can engage and thrive throughout the year. Explore ideas and examples for engineering moments and creating ways to connect and inspire staff and students from day one.
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Using Formative Assessment to Improve Teaching and Learning
Leadership | Effective-Instruction
Formative Assessments monitor student learning, but they also help improve teaching practices and help students to self-monitor. Learn more about Formative Assessments from E3 Alliance’s Alison Duran, then download the rubric to monitor your students’ progress.
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