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This webinar is for school leaders who want to level up their goals meetings...
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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
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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
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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...
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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...
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Building and Maintaining Relationships: A Guide to “People-First Leadership”
April 24, 2024
By Bridget Johnson & Meredith Monk Ford
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From Tactics to Transformation: Why School Culture Matters Most
March 19, 2024
By Meghan Cureton & Meredith Monk Ford
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Folio Reflections from NAIS 2024
March 19, 2024
During our team retreat last week, we had the opportunity to reflect on our...
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Introducing Melissa, Senior School Success Program Manager
March 19, 2024
Hi Folio Members!
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Introducing Derick Pagán, School Success Manager
March 19, 2024
Greetings Folio Members! I recently joined Folio Collaborative as a School...
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Reflections on our E.E. Ford Leadership Grant
June 6, 2023
By Meredith Monk Ford & Liz Kornheiser
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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...
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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...
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Folio & Vital Network Partnership
February 24, 2023
At Folio, we are committed to increasing our use of data to drive decisions and...
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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...
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Goal setting: check. Now what?
September 8, 2021
As we settle into a routine and move from the details of opening school to...
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Implementing Themes in myFolio
July 13, 2021
Abstract Aspects of the professional growth process are driven by your school’s...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Tackling the 'Accountability Dilemma' with Rob Evans
May 3, 2021
Conversations with our member schools reveal that a central challenge for many...
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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...
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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...
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Folio Whitepaper: Creating a Culture of Collaboration
March 25, 2021
What would it take for schools to become more collaborative places? What...
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Meeting the Moment with New Habits
January 29, 2021
The past two academic years have been rife with challenges. There has been...
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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...
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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...
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Reinvent and Redesign Your Growth System
December 17, 2020
With glimmers of hope on the horizon in the form of vaccine development, we’ve...
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4 Approaches to Midyear Goal-Setting
December 11, 2020
While faculty and staff at many Folio schools traditionally set goals in August...
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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...
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Support from the Folio Community
September 21, 2020
by Meredith Monk Ford Folio Executive Director
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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...
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Supporting Overwhelmed Faculty
August 24, 2020
We were speaking to one of our schools last week about their use of myFolio...
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Making the Most of myFolio
August 9, 2020
The new features and enhancements in the cloud-based, myFolio online platform...
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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...
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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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A Shared Purpose
April 24, 2020
As we wake to another day of the unknown, school leaders face another day of...
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Listening to Students through Surveys
April 15, 2020
by Guest Blogger Ilana Pergam Director of Academic Program, The Chapin School...
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Building Community Through Adversity
March 24, 2020
Over the past few weeks, in every conversation and through every email, I have...
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New Resources: Checking In With Your Faculty
March 17, 2020
As a leader in an independent school during these challenging times, you’re...
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Maintaining Relationships While Working Apart
March 16, 2020
As schools transition to online learning or prepare plans to do so should the...
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Folio Response to COVID-19
March 13, 2020
Dear FolioCollaborative Members, I know you are consumed with planning and...
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Folio Response to COVID-19
March 13, 2020
Dear FolioCollaborative Members, I know you are consumed with planning and...
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Mastermind Call Check-in: Folio Norms
February 10, 2020
Folio members meet on Folio’s Mastermind Calls to discuss their work, suggest...
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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...
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Leveraging myFolio Workspaces for Greater Flexibility
November 27, 2019
Numerous Folio member schools embrace myFolio's Workspaces feature, fostering...
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