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6 Leadership Practices to Reduce Staff Divisiveness and Improve Morale

📰 Your Teachers Need You More Than You Think Let’s talk about something we’re all feeling but not always addressing: staff morale and divisiveness. Whether it’s initiative overload, unclear priorities, or just plain burnout, these challenges impact everyone. As Hacking School Leadership a...

by Times 10 & the Hack Learning Team — Apr 09, 2025 leadership school culture stress-free teacher burnout

Are You an Introvert? Here's How You Can Rock It!

Silent Leadership & Inner Strength The Deep Power of Introversion Are you an introvert? How do you know if you're rocking that quiet strength? If you’ve ever felt more at home with your favorite book or a cozy cup of coffee than in a bustling party, congratulations—you might just be...

by Times 10 & the Hack Learning Team — Mar 01, 2025 anxiety deficit thinking leadership mental health self care

💪 From “I Can’t” to “I Can”: 5 Steps to Transform Student Mindsets

Turn Challenges into Champions Fixed or Growth? Why Mindset Matters We’ve all seen it or felt it. A fixed mindset is the belief that our intelligence, abilities, and talents are set in stone. In other words, students with a fixed mindset might think, “I’m just not good at math,” or...

by Times 10 & the Hack Learning Team — Feb 27, 2025 leadership restorative justice school culture student motivation teacher burnout

🌎 💡 Beyond Buzzwords: Real DEI Starts with Brave Classrooms

Create Brave Spaces In an era where diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) face both growing urgency and mounting resistance, the need for intentional, supportive spaces in classrooms has never been greater. For racialized students, "brave spaces" offer more than just inclusion—the...

by Times 10 & the Hack Learning Team — Feb 25, 2025 dei early learning educational equity leadership social emotional learning

Empower Kids Online: A Must-Have Resource for Digital Citizenship!

Turn Your Students into Savvy Digital Citizens In the midst of researching this week’s blog post entitled, “Level Up Learning: How Gamification Transforms the Classroom,” we came across a gem we just have to tell you about (if you don’t know about it already): Common Sense Media E...

by Times 10 & the Hack Learning Team — Feb 19, 2025 digital literacy leadership student engagement what's best for kids

Two Things Teachers Really Need (Hint: It’s Not Icebreakers) 🤯

What Happens When You Actually Give Teachers What They Want? This week, we’re featuring a guest article from Erika Garcia-Niles, author of Hacking School Leadership: What Makes Teachers Happy and Why it Matters to Students. Thanks, Erika, for sharing your insight! If we all ...

by Times 10 & the Hack Learning Team — Feb 06, 2025 leadership school culture stress-free teacher burnout

Who Handles What? Staff Roles in Managing Student Behavior

Clarifying Roles, Building a Team In our recent blog post entitled “Use Restorative Justice to Create School Rules: 5 Steps to Get Started,” we cover some actionable steps to start on the road to creating a culture of accountability, collaboration, and empathy in our schools. But...

by Times 10 & the Hack Learning Team — Jan 30, 2025 classroom management leadership restorative justice school culture

Embrace Your Superpowers: Teachers Deserve to Flourish!

Crush the Myth that Educators Never Prosper One of the most detrimental outcomes of deficit thinking is its impact on our belief that we as educators are powerless. Because deficit thinking blames our students and families for their problems, we are left with the belief that the work ...

by Times 10 & the Hack Learning Team — Jan 23, 2025 healthy lifestyle leadership teacher burnout

Ever Heard of a Learning Lifeguard?

Save the Day: Be a Learning Lifeguard for Struggling Students! Part of this text is taken from Learning Lifeguards by Sherri Nelson. Ok, admit it: when you read the word “lifeguard,” what is the first image that popped in your head? How many recalled a super-cool character from one...

by Times 10 & the Hack Learning Team — Nov 28, 2024 leadership school culture student engagement

Be More Than a Hammer

Part of the dilemma for school administrators who seek other strategies in responding to the misbehaving student is that they are often no more equipped than the classroom teacher to spontaneously craft an alternative to punishment. Their training to be an administrator did not include...

by Times 10 & the Hack Learning Team — Nov 07, 2024 leadership restorative justice

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