Five Tips to Make Remote Learning More Fun

In the past few months of our Possip pulse checks, I’ve read a handful of parent comments about their child really excelling in virtual learning classes and how their student actually prefers remote learning over in-person school. However, those comments are few and far between. Most parents feel that virtual learning has been a flop …

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Getting Kids Excited for First Day of Virtual School

Help your kids to get excited. 2020 isn’t the year we wanted, but it is the year we have. And virtual school isn’t what most parents wanted, but it is what many of us have.  Our kids deserve to be able to look forward to the first days of school – even if we, their …

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6 Tips to Building a Welcoming Virtual School Environment

  Imagine yourself as a parent or family member coming to the school for a meeting about his or her student. They buzz into the building to come to the front office. What do you want them to experience? What will make them walk away feeling appreciated, cared for, and an important member of the …

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Five Reopening Best Practices to Replicate

Times of crisis call for collaboration and sharing of best practices that are working for students and families. Educators shouldn’t be living in silos during this time, but learning and listening to each other to create the best possible experience of reopening school. We’ve been seeing some really great practices from schools around the country …

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Three Keys to a Reopening Plan that Parents Can Support

School and district leaders are in a bit of a no-win situation when making the contentious school reopening decision. Possip’s partners are sending reopening pulse checks to ask families about their comfort and what model they prefer in the fall (hybrid, in-person, or remote learning). Many parents are split into almost equal thirds. This means that …

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Inclusive and Equitable Pods

We can create more inclusive and equitable pods.  This is happening….so let’s do it right. Thanks to author Sara Peters who is a Mom, former educator and Possip team member.  This is one of a series of blogs from our Possip community with ideas on “thinking outside of the school building”.   There are many words …

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The Possip Difference: Ten Ways to Improve Decisions and Change Surveys for Good

Possip isn’t a traditional survey – and that is by design.  We have heard, “these questions are so simple and this survey is so quick.  Can you learn anything?”  The answer is, yes! We believe the Possip difference is what helps leaders improve decisions and people feel heard. The questions are simple and the survey …

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How Districts Are Reopening Schools Around the Country

One of our partner district leaders described making plans in these times as akin to drawing a plan in sand near the beach. Just as you finish the plan, the tide comes in and erases the plan.  What an accurate analogy!  And the truth is some of the very plans we are highlighting below may …

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