Team Building with Your Staff: 3 “Game-Changer” Activities

In my recent post, Team Building with Your Students, I shared a variety of ice-breakers, energizers, and team-builders that you can use with students. However, I would be remiss not to include that so much of student culture at a school is rooted in the staff culture. When a school’s staff culture is prioritized and strong, this models for students what a strong team looks and feels like, and it lays the foundation for the staff to work together in order to create a team mentality amongst the students

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Team Building with Your Students

Regardless of age, if you put a group of individuals in the same space, where some know each other and some don’t, where some are from the area and some aren’t, and where some feel overly confident and some feel insecure, inevitably conflict will arise. We’ve seen this play out on 38 seasons of Survivor (can you believe that?!) and in classics such as Lord of the Flies. We also see this play out everyday in classrooms and schools with students, staff, family, and community members.

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Edcite Expert Adrienne Winders

Adrienne Winders is a teacher at Millersport Elementary School in Ohio. She teaches 5th and 6th grade social studies and 6th grade English language arts. Adrienne graduated from Muskingum University in 2000 with a degree in Elementary Education and received her Master’s in Curriculum and Instruction from The University of New England in 2009. She and her team uses our Edcite Schools platform for assessments, and she has several years of experience using Edcite.

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Who is doing the work: students or teacher?

If you have ever had the opportunity to watch Ella Bess Marshall teach children or lead a coaching meeting with an adult, you know about 2 minutes in that you are in the presence of greatness (aka: a truly talented teacher). Ella Bess began teaching in 2006 and since that time has taught upper elementary and middle school math and coached 4th-8th grade math. In 2010, she was on the founding team at Henderson Collegiate and is there currently serving as an instructional coach and grade level chair coach. If you happen to find yourself in Henderson, North Carolina, go check her out. You will leave a better educator.

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Edcite Expert Dr. Kristen Taylor

Dr. Kristen Taylor is a principal in St. Louis, MO. After earning her master’s degree, she joined Teach For America in the St. Louis region and has been working in elementary and middle schools in St. Louis ever since! Dr. Taylor and her team use our Edcite Schools platform across their campus. She is truly an expert on the platform, and we’re thrilled that she has joined us as an Edcite Expert! Continue reading to learn more about how Dr. Taylor uses Edcite.

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How Success and Failure Taught Me the Same Lesson

The past couple of weeks a few events happened simultaneously that led to the inspiration for today’s post. I talked with my friend, Zach Mercurio, author of The Invisible Leader, about purpose in education. If you missed my post “How Purpose and Singapore Can Increase Teacher Retention,” I talked about his research there as well. Being purpose-driven is one of my soapboxes because I really believe it’s a game-changer in leading toward success and fulfillment. He shared with me the David Yaeger research article, “Boring, but Important.”

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