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Free and easy ways to connect with your staff & parents!

There are a variety of ways that teachers and administrators can communicate with their class, staff, and parents. Effective communication is vital to a schools success. Not just the typical teacher to parents way, but also in the campus to the families way. Good communication can prevent misperceptions and mismatched expectations, encourage parent involvement and foster a team approach to caring […]

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#r10tech: Don’t let being connected be an option!

This is the presentation being shared at the Region X Technology Conference.   For your convenience… Be more dog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMzgl0nFj3s Girls first ski jump: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebtGRvP3ILg Principal Meltdown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDASxk5kiDw     Thanks for coming to my session, or looking into the resources! 🙂   sharing is nice, Amber          

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What Principals can (and should!) learn from Kliff Kingsbury

Texas Tech head coach Kliff Kingsbury is a fan favorite, partly because he’s a former-player-turned-coach, but also partly because he bears a striking resemblance to Ryan Gosling. He also holds the distinction of being the first coach in Big 12 history to start his career at 7-0. With an impressive track record of grooming athletes in his

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Vocab Rehab

Vocab Rehab, an ASCD arias…& a give away!

Last week we met with grade level teams to discuss our most recent benchmark data. Resoundingly, there was an understanding that while students may know the concept or skill, what was most lacking, in grades 3-5, science, reading, and math…was vocabulary. More specifically, lack of vocabulary mastery. Each grade level mentioned it, and some discussed

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