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Boost Morale with These Simple Strategies

A Principal's Reflections

While the pandemic has undoubtedly played a monumental role in decreasing morale, other factors continuously play a role, such as leadership, mandates, lack of time, systems that are in place, a toxic culture, inadequate pay, or trying to maintain a work-life balance. However, this is easier said than done. Deci, E. &

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Leading with Clarity: The Power of Transparency in Building Trust and Driving Success

A Principal's Reflections

That's the power of transparent leadership. Being a transparent leader isn’t just a style; it’s a commitment to honesty, openness, and integrity, something I elaborate on in Digital Leadership. Trust is foundational to effective leadership, and transparency serves as a critical enabler (Burke, Sims, Lazzara, & Salas, 2007).

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To increase and maintain teacher diversity, listen to teachers of color

The Hechinger Report

By recruiting and then mentoring new teachers of color, listening to these teachers’ requests, supporting the development of culturally responsive curricula and promoting educators of color into administrative and district leadership positions, Phoenix Union is getting steadily closer to aligning its teacher and student populations.

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Is strength-based learning a “magic bullet?”

The Hechinger Report

Jenifer Fox — who wrote the book “Your Child’s Strengths” and in 2014 helped create The Delta School in Wilson, Arkansas, which uses the strengths approach — went further, calling it “the magic bullet.”. Others use strength systems designed by the British Centre of Applied Positive Psychology or by Thrively, a California-based startup.

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Not enough students have mentors, and we must change that

The Hechinger Report

The non-profit organization Mentor, which works to ensure that everyone “has the supportive relationships they need to grow and develop,” conducted a national survey in 2014 of youth aged 18 to 21 and found that one in three reported growing up without a mentor of any kind. And not having a mentor can slow career progression.

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Nearly all the seniors at this charter school went to college. Only 6 out of 52 finished on time

The Hechinger Report

psychology class. In 2014, Pierre enlisted in the Air Force, intending to use his salary and the G.I. That fall, Williams switched her major from music business to psychology in hopes of becoming a counselor. Williams loved Delgado so much that she kept going even after she had to take a second job in 2014.

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LA’s school counselors strike back

The Hechinger Report

One part of the campus is not open to all: since 2016, a small section of LA High has been occupied by a selective, STEM-focused charter school, Girls Academic Leadership Academy. Inouye was elected on the reform slate of Alex Caputo-Pearl, a Teach for America alumnus-turned-public-sector-loyalist, who became the union president in 2014.