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Jim Collins Challenges Us To Consider More Collective Learning
Best-selling author and researcher Jim Collins (Good to Great) worked with us to study how we develop teachers. In this video from 2018, he challenges us to realize the need for more collective learning.
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Collective Leadership and Learning Practices - Hold Space: Taylor's Classroom
In this video from 2013, Teach For America alumnus Taylor Delhagen facilitates a debate to develop students’ critical thinking. Taylor provides concrete strategies for students to process information and develop their own viewpoints.
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Earning Trust: Relationship Building with Vulnerable Young People
This video from 2013 portrays how we can't effectively work to empower young people without building relationships with them first. Watch this video to learn from former youth worker Susie Gray's approach to building relationships with students.
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Teacher Mindset Survey
The Teacher Mindset Survey instrument consists of a battery of items in the form of statements that the respondents affirm using a rating scale. These statements were formulated to map with the individual's mindset shifts about the Lenses in the Teac...
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Growth, Not Perfection
This video from 2014 shows how Teach For America alumnus Isaac Pollack, Principal of Carver High School in New Orleans, led his school guided by the simple belief that “it’s OK to make mistakes, just be better tomorrow than you were today.” This beli...
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Locally Rooted, Globally Informed Visions of Student Success - Core Insights
What is the purpose of education, and who decides it? Too often, visions of student success are imposed on students, families, and communities rather than co–constructed with them. Explore these core insights on developing a locally rooted, globally ...
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Upper Primary Student Perceptions Survey
The Student Perception Survey (SPS) instrument consists of a battery of items in the form of observer-reported statements that the respondents affirm using a rating scale. These statements were formulated to map with the observable attributes of thei...