Heading into this school year, our team wanted to recommit to Strong Start – the framework we use in our middle school to make sure every student begins each day and each class period feeling welcomed, engaged and ready to learn. The first few minutes of class are critical: how we connect with students, how […]

I’m the principal of a small public charter school with a STEM focus, so technology is a big part of our work. But emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic, my teachers and I started to feel that technology had completely overwhelmed teaching and learning.  We were one-to-one with Chromebooks with an “off and away phone policy,”, […]