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Using Feedback to Create a Culture of Excellence

A Principal's Reflections

Cultures of excellence are created and fostered when feedback is used to commend effort while providing considerations for growth regularly. During each virtual coaching session, they were pushed to bring artifacts from their respective cohort. In order for each of us to pave a path for success, there must be feedback along the way.

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Digital Learning Prospers With the Right Culture

A Principal's Reflections

Image credit: [link] The right culture focuses on technology as a tool to enhance learning in a variety of ways. As with any holistic initiative, the key is sustainability and a resulting change that sees all aspects of digital learning become an embedded component of school culture. This is a problem.

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5 Strategies to Create a Culture of Accountability for Growth

A Principal's Reflections

Below are some strategies that I utilized to help create a culture where there was accountability for growth. Create mechanisms for educators to share work through artifacts and portfolios. When focused on promoting growth, accountability can help to create a culture of excellence while helping all learners achieve success.

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Spain’s Move to Decolonize Its Museums Must Continue

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In early 2024, Spain’s culture minister announced that the nation would overhaul its state museum collections, igniting a wave of anticipation—and controversy. It is crucial to understand that decolonizing efforts in museums do not equate to an immediate, wholesale return of cultural material. Unlike the U.K.,

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Efficacy-Based Practices

A Principal's Reflections

It provides a baseline as to what has been found to really work when it comes to student learning and improving culture. Thriving cultures focus on empowerment, support, feedback, and autonomy to take risks to build self-efficacy. A combination of data and artifacts will tell you and anyone else whether or not goals were met.

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Ancient Meteors and Early Iron: How Space Rocks Became Everyday Tools in Iron Age Poland

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Recent analysis of artifacts from two Lusatian Culture cemeteries suggests that early metallurgists were not only working with iron from terrestrial sources but also incorporating metal from ataxite meteorites—an extremely rare form of nickel-rich iron that originates in space. A Witnessed Meteorite Fall?

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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

A Principal's Reflections

It was this shift that got me thinking about how tools could be used to amplify the fantastic work of my teachers, administrators, and students to showcase efficacy in improving school culture. Along with video , pictures were one of the most potent artifacts that I used to tell our story through greater context. Image credit.

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