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.

As a campus leader, learn how to lead effective professional development with staff and work as a group to plan.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Use this decision-making tool for evaluating the professional educator mindset and practice of collaboration and learning in your school community.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Access ideas and tips on using your unit organizer in this short video, such as adding links, assigning tasks, and employing web apps.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Download this template for your school's attendance team to use when identifying the three tiers of support in student attendance.

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.

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.

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:

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.

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.

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 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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Part 2 | Forward Momentum guides you on strengthening resilience and increasing shared leadership while learning a framework to add to your leadership toolbox.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Watch Teri Clement explain the idea of an interactive game board as part of your campus professional learning for staff.

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.

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.

Part 1 | Clarify Priorities, Focus Your Team, Organize to Realize your Vision

In this video, the E3 Alliance team shares ideas and strategies to help you modify your leadership moves for efficient and effective implementation. Need help identifying priorities? Want to figure out the most straightforward path to success for serving those priorities? Watch now!

In this video, the E3 Alliance team shares the “how” of designing effective professional development aligned with your priorities. We convey strategies that accommodate any school professional development calendar so your teachers and staff start the year strong and remain supported.