Specialities
Professional Development
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Can SMS Be The Game-Changer Your Admissions Funnel Needs?
Navigating private or independent school admissions can feel like chasing a moving target. With families bombarded by choices and information, it’s tough for schools to capture their attention. Traditional methods like emails often go unopened, and direct mailers are lost in the shuffle. Schools need a more direct, engaging approach to connect with prospective families. […]
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Thinking Outside the Inbox: Email Management
If you have never despaired at the state of your email inbox or felt that reading and replying to email consumes an inordinate amount of your time then, please, feel free to skip this article. If, however, you’re among the other 99% of school leaders, read on!
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Mentoring Program for Heads of School in their First Three Years
Now that you are a Head of School, do you secretly wonder what you are supposed to do? With The Gowan Group Heads POD (“Peer Open Dialog”) program, you will be joining a cohort of eight to ten new heads led by an experienced Head of School who will guide you through the challenges of […]
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Magnetic Reading Foundations
Magnetic Reading Foundations is a Grades K–2 foundational skills reading program that has earned perfect scores and “all-green” ratings from EdReports for all Gateways for the Foundational Skills category. The program provides explicit and systematic instruction to move students from foundations to fluency. – Empowers educators with curated materials driven by explicit, systematic instruction – […]
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Social and Emotional Learning Activities for Elementary and Middle School Students
Social-emotional learning, or SEL, is a developmental process where children learn the emotional well-being, regulation, and relationship skills needed to be successful young adults. Learning these skills can seem boring to many young children, especially when the promise of board games, recess, and coloring worksheets awaits. Luckily, there are plenty of fun and engaging ways […]
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10 Strategies to Help Students Emotional Resilience
Unfortunately, children face social and emotional challenges every day. Because of this, problem-solving skills are necessary to face adversity head-on. Problem-solving skills allow children to develop perspective-taking and learn how to take calculated risks. Increased decision-making skills have a ripple effect on other life skills, such as collaboration, analytical reasoning, and effective communication. As your […]
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i-Ready Assessment and i-Ready Personalized Instruction
At Curriculum Associates, we believe the number one purpose of assessment can and should be instruction. i-Ready Assessment is a valid and reliable assessment suite used by private and parochial schools across the country. We are honored to serve our valued private and parochial school partners with these best-in-class assessment products for reading and mathematics […]
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Self-Care Assessment
A worksheet designed to build self-awareness around seven key areas of life that tend to need the most care and attention.
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Find Calm & Carry On
Friendzy co-founder, Julie Widman, and Dr. Marcella Chiromo discuss the impact of stress and how to interrupt the stress cycle with the cognitive behavioral model and G.R.A.C.E.
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How Learnfully’s Executive Function Simulation Improves Educator Awareness and Preparedness
Help your school community understand how it feels to struggle with executive dysfunction and see how it evokes unnecessary anxiety in learners. The Executive Function Challenge™ is a workshop that lets participants experience what it feels like for a learner to have weakness in executive function. It includes an overview of executive function, covers common […]
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Free Counselor Resources Improve College Access, Affordability & Matriculation
Independent High Schools can sensitively equip all families for the realities of paying for college in a way that empowers counselors and improves student outcomes, but we must acknowledge gaps in the status quo, embrace innovative strategies, examine our assumptions and challenge families to do the same. When Financial Aid education is successful, it’s because […]
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Free resources for college counselors help parents make informed decisions about the financial health and well-being of their families.
Independent High Schools can sensitively equip all families for the realities of paying for college in a way that empowers counselors and improves student outcomes, but we must acknowledge gaps in the status quo, embrace innovative strategies, examine our assumptions and challenge families to do the same. When Financial Aid education is successful, it’s because […]