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Student Health and Well-being
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The Huddle: Elevating Your Major Gift Program
The Huddle: Elevating Your Major Gift Program Thursday, October 17, 2024 Time: 2:00 pm EST Cost: FREE Join Shelby LaMar, Chief Advancement Officer at Lancaster Country Day School (LCDS) in Pennsylvania to learn how to build a thriving major gifts program at your school. Shelby is currently in his sixteenth year at LCDS, where annual […]
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The Huddle: What’s Your Process for Selecting Mission-Aligned Consultants & Vendors?
The Huddle: What’s Your Process for Selecting Mission-Aligned Consultants & Vendors? Wednesday, November 13, 2024 2:00 pm EST FREE The Huddle will be recorded and shared with all registrants. From strategic planning to food service, fundraising counsel to bus service, independent schools engage consultants and vendors annually to support mission delivery. Join Rose Helm, Head […]
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How to Effectively Market Your School’s Community
If you’re like most schools we talk to, your community is your heartbeat. It’s also one of the main reasons families might choose your school over any other — or why they walk away. Here’s how to highlight your community as your key differentiator.
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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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Friendzy Emotion Chart
The Friendzy Emotion Chart creates space for adults to have conversations with young people about how they are feeling and equip them with the skills they need to manage them. Emotions are warning lights on a dashboard. They are an indication that something is going on inside of us. Our emotions are an expression of […]
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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 […]
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Free Counselor Resources Improve College Affordability & Student Matriculations
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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5 SUMMER TIPS TO START YOUR PTA/O SCHOOL YEAR STRONG
Ahhhh, summer. Those long days, outdoor adventures, and beautiful nights are here. You survived the end-of-year rat race, and now you’re ready for some well-deserved relaxation. Start your summer with a complete break from your PTA/PTO leadership duties to allow yourself time to rest and rejuvenate. When you’re ready, take advantage of the important opportunities […]