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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…
Read MoreStructured 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…
Read MoreCollegial 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,…
Read MoreWashington 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…
Read MoreMentoring 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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