Best Practices for Investing Students in Performance-Based School Culture (Part 3 of 3)
This week, we conclude our series on investing students in performance-based school culture with four more best practices from our most recent webinar, How to Invest Students in a Performance-Based School Culture, which featured NeShante Brown, executive director of the Soulsville Charter School in Memphis, Tenn., and Scott Steckler, principal at George Cox Elementary School [...]
Best Practices for Investing Students in Performance-Based School Culture (Part 2 of 3)
You know that investing students in your school culture is important. Now what? Last week’s blog highlighted the “so what;” in this post, we’ll explore the “now what” by sharing four best practices for investing students in school culture. NeShante Brown, executive director of the Soulsville Charter School in Memphis, Tenn., and Scott Steckler, principal [...]
Best Practices for Investing Students in Performance-Based School Culture (Part 1 of 3)
At Kickboard, we believe that a performance-based school culture is essential for success. One of the most important – and most challenging – steps to building it is earning student buy-in. This was the focus of our most recent webinar, How to Invest Students in a Performance-Based School Culture, which featured two experienced administrators: NeShante [...]
Optimizing Kickboard: Lessons from Achievement First
I recently spoke with Darek Ciszek, associate director of systems and operations for Achievement First, a network of high-performing charter schools in New York and Connecticut, about ways to maximize the effectiveness of Kickboard. Every school in the Achievement First network uses data differently. To help ensure that each school has access to the data [...]
5 Ways to Increase the J-Factor at School
Balancing a high performance culture with fun and happiness can be challenging, but it’s a worthwhile endeavor that can significantly impact learning. According to former neurologist and middle school teacher Judy Willis: “When students are engaged and motivated and feel minimal stress, information flows freely through the affective filter in the amygdala and they achieve [...]
Developing Data Literate Teachers to Boost Student Success
This week, I had the opportunity to participate in the Urban Teacher Residency United (UTRU) symposium on data literacy. While I think we can all agree that closing the achievement gap requires the purposeful development of a sustainable pipeline of diverse, well-equipped teachers, the definition of “well equipped” seems to change regularly. The symposium made [...]
Beyond Incentives: Using Data to Inform School-Level Decision Making Around School Culture
While several previous posts have shared best practices for using incentives to motivate students, in this post we share two anecdotes from Fort Worth’s Uplift Education Mighty Secondary that illustrate how you can use behavior data to inform school-level decision making. Uplift records behaviors that are aligned to IB Learn Profiles and school expectations. Every [...]
Restorative Justice at The Net
The Net is a non-traditional school in New Orleans with a focus on students who have dropped out or been expelled. I visited it with a few colleagues as part of Kickboard’s bi-annual retreat, taking place this week. The Net takes an approach that is very different from most of the schools using Kickboard. In [...]