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Collaborative Behaviors: Observable Norms

By Courtney Daikos | March 30, 2026 | Comments Off on Collaborative Behaviors: Observable Norms

As a Continua consultant, I’ve had the opportunity to support schools and districts on their MTSS journeys for the last 10 years. Across Continua’s portfolio of school districts we’ve observed…

Structured Service Learning: A Universal Apathy Intervention

By Chris Daikos | March 20, 2026 | Comments Off on Structured Service Learning: A Universal Apathy Intervention

This past week, Courtney and I ventured up to Skagit County, Washington to provide middle school staff professional development focused on neurological and ecological factors in human development and how…

Collegial Trust

By Courtney Daikos | March 5, 2026 | Comments Off on Collegial Trust

Three years ago my fellow Continua Consultant, Heather Wixom Sweeney, and I, were contracted to support a school where the staff culture was stuck. Staff didn’t trust their new administrators,…

Washington State OSPI Guidance for Immigrant Students

By Courtney Daikos | January 28, 2025 | Comments Off on Washington State OSPI Guidance for Immigrant Students

Washington State OSPI Guidance for Immigrant Students Protections for Immigrant Students in Washington’s K-12 Public Schools Public schools have a constitutional and moral obligation to provide a free, high-quality public…

Mentoring Blindly

By James Miles & Chris Daikos | March 2, 2021 | Comments Off on Mentoring Blindly

The first documented use of the word mentor dates back to the 8th Century BCE, from Homer’s The Odyssey. In the epoch poem, Odysseus left his young son, Telemachus, at…

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