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To my mind, the undisputed champion of hand gestures for facilitation is the “fist-to-five.”  The gesture itself is very straightforward: Everybody in the room holds up either a fist, one finger, two fingers, three fingers, four fingers, or five fingers. 

This short guide gives you everything you need to make sure that your attendance communication is landing with families the way you intend it to.

Andrew Lerario explains how he uses the iterative design process in order to give students more power within projects and share the “cognitive load” of project management.

This is a quick guide for school and district leaders who want to strengthen student attendance, connection, and belonging from the start of the school year.

If you come into a room full of people you don’t know, and try to have a rich conversation with them, you’ll probably want to get them to shuffle themselves before you do anything else. With this in mind, here are four methods that work equally well with kids and adults:

This article is a Spanish translation of "Improvement as a Journey: Going the Distance with Improvement Science" by Amanda Meyer, translated by Liliana Leiva

The ever-present focus on standardized test scores hides opportunities to recognize and build on important progress that is likely already happening in their schools, and is essential for academic success, as well as the overall success of students, teachers, classrooms, and the larger school community.

A Model Critique is a protocol for quickly studying a high-quality piece of work and identifying the elements of quality that make it “work”. In Continuous Improvement, you should use it when a Networked Improvement Community has identified an effective practice that they want to spread.

A project feels big and ambitious to students because of the audience they’re showing the product to, and the venue where they’ll share it.

This article is an edited excerpt from an episode of the High Tech High Unboxed podcast. You can listen to the full episode here. In this excerpt, Andy Sprakes, co-founder and chief academic officer at the XP School Trust in Britain tells Unboxed editor Alec Patton about the mistake he has never forgotten from his first-ever project, and how that mistake shaped the school’s entire culture.