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Stop Talking, Start Listening: The Manager’s Guide to Genuine Connection

September 30, 2024

by Garet Libbey and Meredith Monk Ford

Webinar - Mapping a Path to Change: Aligning Teacher Goals to Student Success

September 9, 2024

This webinar is for school leaders who want to empower their teachers to set...

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Building Teacher Agency and Resilience by Aligning Growth Goals with Values

August 28, 2024

By Sarah Dugan and Meredith Monk Ford

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Mapping a Path to Change: Aligning Teacher Goals to Student Success

August 7, 2024

By Peter Metsopoulos and Meredith Monk Ford

Making Time for Feedback: Strategies for Busy School Leaders

June 26, 2024

Today, I want to delve into a challenge many schools face: fitting effective...

Using the Eisenhower Matrix to Improve Your Team

June 19, 2024

In a 1954 speech, President Dwight D. Eisenhower said: “I have two kinds of...

Webinar - Employee Onboarding: Are You Ready?

June 10, 2024

Webinar - Creating a Culture of Learning: A Comprehensive Approach to Fostering Growth in Schools

May 13, 2024

Employee Onboarding: Are You Ready?

May 7, 2024

By Michael Russell & Meredith Monk Ford

Building and Maintaining Relationships: A Guide to “People-First Leadership”

April 24, 2024

By Bridget Johnson & Meredith Monk Ford

From Tactics to Transformation: Why School Culture Matters Most

March 19, 2024

By Meghan Cureton & Meredith Monk Ford

Folio Reflections from NAIS 2024

March 19, 2024

During our team retreat last week, we had the opportunity to reflect on our...

Introducing Melissa, Senior School Success Program Manager

March 19, 2024

Hi Folio Members!

Introducing Derick Pagán, School Success Manager

March 19, 2024

Greetings Folio Members! I recently joined Folio Collaborative as a School...

Reflections on our E.E. Ford Leadership Grant

June 6, 2023

By Meredith Monk Ford & Liz Kornheiser

Using “Ecocycle Planning” as a Tool for End of Year Reflection

May 12, 2023

I was meeting with one of our members recently and I was reminded of a session...

From Feedback to Action: Turning School Surveys into a Collaborative Growth Engine

April 13, 2023

As we considered how to help schools with the challenges they face with hiring...

Folio & Vital Network Partnership

February 24, 2023

At Folio, we are committed to increasing our use of data to drive decisions and...

Member Spotlight: Celebration with Spotlights and Informal Observations

January 31, 2023

End the Year with Joy and a Free Resource!

May 11, 2022

Are you setting your school community up for success next year? End of Year...

Goal setting: check. Now what?

September 8, 2021

As we settle into a routine and move from the details of opening school to...

Implementing Themes in myFolio

July 13, 2021

Abstract Aspects of the professional growth process are driven by your school’s...

What teachers need next year — and how Folio can help provide it

June 18, 2021

Conversations with member schools have revealed consistent themes as school...

Unlock Your School's Potential: 5 Pillars of Thriving Learning Cultures

June 18, 2021

The most successful Folio schools create a multi-year teaching and learning...

8 ways to help teachers heal after a tough year

June 3, 2021

The events of the last 12 months have shown us that teachers have superpowers...

Using Folio to Advance Your School’s Strategic Goals

June 3, 2021

While the end of June will be a time for school administrators to take space...

Member Spotlight: Creating Alignment through Folio Leadership Team Meetings

May 17, 2021

Teacher Retention Secret Weapon: Show You Care (and How to Do It!)

May 13, 2021

Conversations with member schools have revealed consistent themes as school...

Evaluation, Feedback and Coaching: What You Need to Know

May 6, 2021

This post was originally published at Bright Morning. Elena will be a keynote...

Tackling the 'Accountability Dilemma' with Rob Evans

May 3, 2021

Conversations with our member schools reveal that a central challenge for many...

Introducing Your Faculty and Staff to the New Features in myFolio

April 27, 2021

The myFolio experience is now more intentional, more actionable, and easier for...

8 Ways to Help Teachers Regenerate and Heal after a Year of Trauma and Resilience

April 13, 2021

The events of the last 12 months have shown us that teachers have superpowers...

Folio Whitepaper: Creating a Culture of Collaboration

March 25, 2021

What would it take for schools to become more collaborative places? What...

Member Spotlight: Focusing on what matters in difficult years

March 12, 2021

Member Spotlight: Building connections and relationships with the Mindful Minute

February 9, 2021

Meeting the Moment with New Habits

January 29, 2021

The past two academic years have been rife with challenges. There has been...

Using Habits and the Domino Effect to Achieve Lasting Professional Growth

January 14, 2021

How do people grow? Research suggests that about 40% of our day each day is...

Beyond Goals: 4 Ways to Support Faculty and Staff in the New Year

January 11, 2021

Faculty and staff need more support, and different support. While goal-directed...

Reinvent and Redesign Your Growth System

December 17, 2020

With glimmers of hope on the horizon in the form of vaccine development, we’ve...

4 Approaches to Midyear Goal-Setting

December 11, 2020

While faculty and staff at many Folio schools traditionally set goals in August...

Creating a Culture of Calm

October 19, 2020

Like you, I had hoped that by this point in the school year, we would know what...

Support from the Folio Community

September 21, 2020

by Meredith Monk Ford Folio Executive Director

Survival and resilience are not the same. Which will you choose?

September 7, 2020

Growth and resilience are always a choice. As the school year launches in the...

Supporting Overwhelmed Faculty

August 24, 2020

We were speaking to one of our schools last week about their use of myFolio...

Making the Most of myFolio

August 9, 2020

The new features and enhancements in the cloud-based, myFolio online platform...

5 Ways to Make Equity and Inclusion a Professional Growth Theme

August 6, 2020

Events this year — and our nation’s response to them — have shone a spotlight...

5 Tips for Effective DEI Professional Growth

August 6, 2020

Events this year — and our nation’s response to them — have shone a spotlight...

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The Power of Pausing

May 26, 2020

What Communities Need from Leaders

May 18, 2020

By Meredith Monk Ford Executive Director

A Shared Purpose

April 24, 2020

As we wake to another day of the unknown, school leaders face another day of...

Listening to Students through Surveys

April 15, 2020

by Guest Blogger Ilana Pergam Director of Academic Program, The Chapin School...

Using myFolio for Sharing and Capturing Conversations

April 3, 2020

Building Community Through Adversity

March 24, 2020

Over the past few weeks, in every conversation and through every email, I have...

New Resources: Checking In With Your Faculty

March 17, 2020

As a leader in an independent school during these challenging times, you’re...

Maintaining Relationships While Working Apart

March 16, 2020

As schools transition to online learning or prepare plans to do so should the...

Folio Response to COVID-19

March 13, 2020

Dear FolioCollaborative Members, I know you are consumed with planning and...

Folio Response to COVID-19

March 13, 2020

Dear FolioCollaborative Members, I know you are consumed with planning and...

Mastermind Call Check-in: Folio Norms

February 10, 2020

Folio members meet on Folio’s Mastermind Calls to discuss their work, suggest...

Four Pillars of Effective PD: Lessons from Folio Member Schools

January 24, 2020

In December, I visited five Folio member schools—from California to Maryland—to...

Leveraging myFolio Workspaces for Greater Flexibility

November 27, 2019

Numerous Folio member schools embrace myFolio's Workspaces feature, fostering...