1. Freedom requires ubiquitous political participation; exercise your right to vote. 2. Keep an open mind; it’s not a sign of political affiliation. 3. Freedom of speech should still allow for the act of courtesy. 4. Political preference is not religion. 5. Disagreeing is not a sign of lack of patriotism. Teach your kids to think for themselves.

The question every person in a school quietly carries — Do I matter here? — and the small, intentional acts of leadership that answer it. https://schoolrubric.org/do-i-matter-here-leadership-question/

I've sat in enough SPED team meetings to know the real gaps rarely show up in the data first. They show up in the room, in what nobody quite says out loud. Try these at your next meeting. 1. Can every teacher here name the accommodations on their students' IEPs without pulling up the file? 2. When we last checked, did our progress monitoring data actually match the goals written in the IEP? 3. If someone walked in tomorrow and asked to see our files, which ones would make us nervous? 4. Are the paraprofessionals in this building trained on what they're responsible for delivering? 5. Whose job is it to catch a missed deadline before it becomes a finding? None of these questions are meant to catch anyone doing something wrong. Your team is trying their best with what they have. These are just the questions that tell you where to look next. This is fixable. It almost always is. What's the question your team needs to be asking right now? Drop it in the comments, I read every one. https://services.tsrcharlotte.com/free-sped-compliance-gaps-checklist

We routinely assess whether students are ready for learning, but how often do we assess whether the systems surrounding them are ready to support meaningful behavior change? https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/missing-readiness-gap-school-behavior-systems-why-schools-olivares-ttnxc?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&utm_campaign=share_via