Educator's Edge

Sharper Thinking ⚡️ Smarter Teaching ⚡️ Stronger Schools -- Subscribe for free weekly updates

Tags: school culture

Showing 8 results:

🎯 Permission to Try (and Fail): Creating a Culture of Courage in PBL

Forget Perfect—Let’s Make Learning Brave Messy, Uncertain, Amazing If you want students to take ownership of their learning, try new things, and push the boundaries of what they think is possible — you’ve got to build a classroom where risk-taking isn’t just allowed, it’s expected...

by Times 10 & Hack Learning Team — Apr 22, 2025 creativity pbl school culture student engagement

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

💪 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

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

2025 Trends for Teens and Tweens: Stay in the Loop!

What’s Trending? You May Be Surprised. Probably since the time when Tyrannosaurus Rex roamed the Earth, the younger members of our family and social groups have insisted on stating their individuality through clothing, music, friends, frenemies, and just about anything else that made t...

by Times 10 & the Hack Learning Team — Jan 02, 2025 mental health school culture social-emotional learning

Conquer the IDK Monster

From Blank Stares to Bright Ideas: Tackling "I Don’t Know" Some of the most frustrating three words we all hear from our students are “I don’t know.” Then there are the physical equivalents: blank stares, shrugged shoulders, averted eyes and noises such as “uhhhhh ….” Even worse ...

by Times 10 & the Hack Learning Team — Dec 05, 2024 motivation school culture student engagement

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

Level up your teaching and leading

Stay Connected