Featured Educator: Jay Posick, Principal School: Merton Intermediate School Location: Merton, Wisconsin When Principal Posick realized that students at Merton Intermediate School didn’t have much choice in their education, he and his superintendent prioritized giving students the right “space” to explore by using a school remodel to create the infrastructure and room needed for more exploratory opportunities. School staff helped generate ideas for new exploratory offerings and, most importantly, kids get to pick based on their interest ..read more

Featured Educators: Lisa Meade @lisameade23 and Maria Kolodziewjski School: Granville Junior-Senior High School Location: Granville, New York, USA Granville Jr./Sr. High School puts students at the center of their teaming strategy for 7th and 8th grades. Each grade level team has leveraged Google to create classroom webpages that offer coordinated communication with parents/families. They have also implemented Tutorial Periods for each teacher to provide extra help to students and use a running spreadsheet to see what’s due/being worked on across the grade level. They also reassess and reassi ..read more

Featured Educator: Chris Legleiter, @clegleiter School: Leawood Middle School Location: Leawood, Kansas, USA At the center of Leawood Middle School’s culture is the belief that together is when we’re better. Principal Chris Legleiter talks about ways they’ve empowered students, staff, and families including giving students opportunities to tell the story of the school, the RSVP program (Raising Student Voice and Participation student focus groups on key topics the insights from which are shared out to staff), integrating families into the staff’s professional learning, and more. Chris sees the ..read more

Featured Educator: Dr. Donald Gately, @donald_gately School: Jericho Middle School Location: Jericho, New York, USA Derived from the professional development model by the same name, students are invited to submit topics and passions of interest and then present them as a session. Students can choose which session they’d like to attend. At Jericho Middle School, the idea took off with students signing up to share a wide variety of sessions ranging from how to draw anime, politics, sports-related topics, how to prevent stress, making your own slime, and many more. Dr. Gately believes any school ..read more