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    Driving Toward Educator Growth and Retention: Culture-Building for Support and Performance

    By Julia Ramsey

    This is the second post in a series on a framework for creating a school district culture that increases educator growth and retention. In this post, we’ll share specific strategies to help you create a roadmap to increased educator growth and career satisfaction in your district. 
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    Driving Toward Educator Growth and Retention: The Four Quadrants of Staff Culture in K-12 Schools

    By Julia Ramsey

    This is the first post in a series exploring a framework for creating school district staff cultures that increase educator growth and retention. In this post, we’ll share an overview of the framework and provide some practical tips for how you can move your district toward a path of both high performance and high support.
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    Building an Environment for Teacher Growth

    By Julia Ramsey

    Study after study shows that educator quality is the most impactful school-based factor in student outcomes — so how do districts create environments where teachers are professionally fulfilled, directly supported, and continuously growing in their practice?
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    New Teacher Induction: Data for supporting early-career teachers

    By Julia Ramsey

    Taking charge of a classroom for the first time is no small task. So how to ensure new teacher induction programs are working across the district? Good data practices that keep administrators informed, coaches aligned, and educators clear on their next steps.
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    Evaluating Equity Training: 3 Tips for Optimizing Antiracist Teacher PD

    By Julia Ramsey

    Any work that deals with attitudinal change like unconscious bias must be embedded so it’s front-of-mind and continuously active. This means applying the same best practices found in any other PD intervention. Explore how to evaluate anti-racist teacher PD, and ensure that the training is translating into classroom practice.
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    Lessons Learned from the Teacher Incentive Allotment

    By Julia Ramsey

    The Teacher Incentive Allotment within HB-3 is one of Texas’s best levers for recruiting, retaining, and rewarding exceptional educators. But as district leaders know, building a local designation system requires careful planning, data design, and calibration to be successful. Hear Lubbock Independent School District share the challenges, insights and lessons learned from their TIA journey.
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    Calibrating Walkthroughs and Observations

    By Julia Ramsey

    Without accurate information, there can be no accurate feedback — and thus no feedback-based improvement. To reach that potential, it’s critical to build in data calibration to ensure that your observation data factually reflects what’s happening in the classroom. In this guide, you’ll walk through how to analyze data, spot skew, and make sure that your measurements are accurately reflecting — and improving — classroom practice.
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    Walking the PD Tightrope

    By Julia Ramsey

    Learn how two school districts (Rock Hill Schools and Corona-Norco Unified School District) are leveraging technology to maintain coherence between district and campus priorities while ensuring professional learning stays nimble.
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    K-12 Federal Funding Update: ESSER provides funds to combat learning loss

    By Julia Ramsey

    The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 is set to provide significant boosts to available K-12 federal funds. Find out what the new funding means for K-12 districts and professional learning teams.
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    Coaching and Support Logs 101

    By Julia Ramsey

    A free guide to using dynamic coaching logs that capture support as it’s happening, plus a free template.