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How Financially Savvy Are Your School Administrators?
By: Jess Gartner. With the right support structures and financial data analysis tools in place, administrators can gradually learn to budget effectively and ensure that every resource is driving student achievement.
Schools Worth Visiting
Iteration in Action: Denver School of Innovation and Sustainable Design
By: Springpoint Schools. The Denver School of Innovation and Sustainable Design is utilizing a student-centered approach to school culture that is helping to keep students engaged. Read more here!
Leadership
The Innovation to Drive Innovation: Scaling Inquiry
By: Thom Markham. When done well, project-based learning helps students discover the fruits of a creative journey that leads to innovation and deeper learning. A kind of magic occurs. How can we bottle that magic? Find out here.
Leadership
Getting Smart Podcast | Design Thinking as Pedagogy For Students and Educators
In this podcast, Sandy Speicher, partner and managing director of education at IDEO, chats with Tom on what design thinking is and why it's so important for teachers and education leaders right now.
Innov8
Innov8: Random Acts of Kindness
It’s National Random Acts of Kindness week—what are you doing to take part? We invite you to join us in making the world a better place to be this week, just as those in our top eight stories are doing as they continue raising the bar on innovations in education.
Leadership
How Schools Improve
A colleague recently emailed me about the lack of widely used improvement frameworks in schools, so here is a quick outline of responses around approaches to improvement and innovation.
Leadership
What’s New in Leadership? Lifelong Learning + Project Management
As we have been writing throughout our project-based world series, the nature of work is changing and so in turn are the necessary skills for success. So what do we need to ensure we grow the type of leaders we'll need in the future?
Leadership
School Culture and Relationships Thrive with a 5:1 Positivity Ratio
Everyone wrestles with how to create positive and productive relationships at home, at school and everywhere in between. One of the most important factors in succeeding is paying attention to how feedback is provided.
Leadership
Living As If All Lives Have Equal Value
I’ve had the good fortune to live and work with people who believe all lives are equal, and who value openness, generosity and innovation as value creation. Here are five lessons they taught me.
Leadership
See Through A Student’s Eyes with the Shadow a Student Challenge
By: Devon Young. School leaders and teachers are better suited to help students learn when they deeply understand the student experience. One great way to achieve this level of insight is through shadowing a student!