Learning Unleashed

Do you have new goals for the new year? Are you continuing to pursue goals set at the beginning of the school year? Consider using these tools personally, professionally, or with your students and team:

• Working Proactively With an Instructional Coach

• 💭Hopes and Dreams HyperDoc (Use with your students or yourself!)

• Embracing the New Year: Five Approaches to Goal-Setting and Growth in the Classroom

• Explore this bank of tools/resources for student goal setting

As you reflect on your LEADS goals and next steps, don't forget that the Learning Model website has hundreds of resources to support your learning that can be filtered by LEADS dimensions.

Here are a few resources to support the mid-year restart for you and your students:

• Getting Your Class Back on Track for the Spring

• Communicating Expectations to Make Instruction More Effective
• Using Reflection to Build Positive, Growth Mindsets

• 20 Inspirational Quotes to Start off 2025

• AVID Podcast: Calendar Tools for a New Year

The middle of year PLC Collaborative Team Reflection window is open from January 6 - 24. As you reflect on your current practice aligned with the PLC Implementation Guide, don't forget to celebrate success, learning, and growth. Consider using this reflection time to set a goal for your team's progress in the spring and reassess during the end of year reflection window.

Additional resources for your PLC reflect/restart:

• Team Temperature Check
• Reflection Questions on Our Norms
• Strategies for Readdressing Norms
• Moving From Planning to Action in Collaborative Teams

• Google Sheets: New Table View! Go to Insert, then Tables and explore your options.
• MagicSchool: Create a SMART goals tracker for students aligned to their needs.
  
• Canva: Find tons of great, customizable templates.

Second semester is an opportune time to reflect on what is going well. Then, rebuild classroom culture and reset expectations, tweaking your procedures based on your learning. Partner with your mentor to truly capitalize on your growth using the Mentor and Mentee Goal-Setting form to start the conversation. Or break the winter classroom blues with this take on blended learning in Co-teaching With Myself, magnifying your own teaching gains by using instructional videos to be in two places at once.

Looking for more tools for student goal setting and ownership? From Solutions Tree's Thriving as a New Teacher (2016)

• Questions to Help New Teachers Think Through the Goal-Setting Process
  
• 8 Steps for Student Goal Setting
  
• Reflection Form for Periodic Goal Progress Meetings

Join us this spring for our 31st Annual Continuous Improvement Institute (CII)! Whether you want to improve your classroom or workplace processes, increase student empowerment, or take action on a goal you’ve set, CII can give you the tools and concepts to tackle your probletunity!

LISD will cover the cost of participants' subs for the 3 half-day sessions. For more details see the CII flyer and/or sign-up form.

Small group cohorts will meet on:

• February 3 (4:30 - 6:30, virtual)
• February 11 (1:00 - 4:30, in-person @ a location central to the cohort)
• February 25 (1:00 - 4:30, in-person @ a location central to the cohort)
• March 11 (1:00 - 4:30, in-person @ a location central to the cohort)
• March 31 (5:00 - 7:00, in person @ a central location)

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