Research on Student Belonging
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Topic: School Change
Introducing Challenge Success to Your Community
Practical ideas for sharing your CS work with your community.
Research on Student Voice
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Action Planning Guide
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Student Survey Summary Report (High School)
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School Story: The Alexander Dawson School
Learn how one school improved well-being and engagement through working with Challenge Success.
Why Multi-stakeholder Teams Matter for School Change
When a school applies to our program, one of the first questions we ask is about their investment in convening and working as a multi-stakeholder team.
Challenge Success: A Dawson Parent’s Perspective
A parent from one of our partner school shares what she learned at our Fall Conference.
Loving School: From Stressed Out Student to Challenge Success Coach
I love school. As a child in elementary school, I would be so excited to get the school supplies list and go get things like new sharp colored pencils and books.
Year-end Student Awards and Assemblies
Several administrators at a recent conference asked my opinion on year-end student awards and assemblies. At their schools, they typically rewarded students who had straight A’s or who had GPA’s above a certain cut-off point.
What Teaching 8th Graders Has Taught Me About Homework and Stress
This is my first year as a full time teacher, after working for many years in education as a part-time teacher, researcher, and coach with Challenge Success. Throughout the year I’ve seen the complexities and nuances of how student stress works up close. Stress doesn’t just come from one place. It’s not only teachers assigning too much homework, or a hectic school schedule, or one too many extracurricular activities. It’s deeper than any one of those things. It’s cultural, and it’s something we not only feel, but also go in search of.
The Teacher’s Note: Too Much, Too Fast
Thursday was the technology professional development day at the District, and although I thought the day was excellently planned and carried out, and I was impressed with all the presenters, when I left, I felt battered and pessimistic. I have been trying to figure out why.