Developing the School’s Expected Student Outcomes
If your school has decided to embark on the process of adopting a statement of Expected Student Outcomes (ESOs), it is worth considering carefully the process you will use to identify and communicate these. It will be important...
Creating Your Foundational Documents
Foundational documents are an important tool for your school’s development, so creating them needs to be done with care. Here are three related ideas to help you work through the process… Collaboration If your...
Developing Student Leaders: The significance of community
A relationship with a mentor who is modelling leadership character and skills is significant for a young leader, but can we go one step better? What might be the impact if they were connected to a community of young leaders who...
Teacher-Teacher Professional Collaboration
Many of us see the benefits of collaboration in the classroom and desire to see our students develop cooperative attitudes and skills… but what about in the staff room? Is your school a place where teachers work together,...
Collaborative Learning Strategies
Building collaboration in your classroom could begin with recognizing that some of the tasks you already ask your students to engage in could be done collaboratively. Solving a problem, practicing a skill, evaluating an...
The Benefits of Collaborative Learning
In my previous post I started a discussion about “what is collaborative learning?”. A related question to ask is “why should we use collaborative learning strategies in our classrooms”? In other words, do collaborative learning...
Elements of Effective Collaborative Learning
Over the next few weeks I am hoping to start a conversation about building collaboration in our classrooms and beyond. Collaboration sounds like a good idea… but what is it, and how can we use it to increase student...
Partnerships for Increased Impact
The ACSI Europe team is excited to announce our 3rd International Educational Leadership Conference, which will be held in Budapest, Hungary, from February 27 – March 2, 2019. We are expecting around 200 school leaders...
Networking with other Christian schools.
“Networking” is a buzz-word heard in many different professional fields, and education is one of them. But what does it actually involve and why would a Christian school invest time and energy in it? Another, perhaps...
How Much is Project Based Learning Used at Your School?
The Buck Institute for Education (BIE.org) provides excellent resources on Project Based Learning. They claim that the experience of thousands of teachers across all grade levels and subject areas, backed by research, confirms...