Chronicles of a FIRST YEAR Core Essentials School: Follow their journey as they take an already invested group of educators and equip them with the common language and Core Essential tools to change the values culture! The majority of school systems in our area have started back to school this week. As part of the new relationship we have with one local school,...

Consider placing specific “action” posters pertaining to The BIG Three in specific areas around your school. Ours are just suggestions – every school is different. The goal is to help kids understand specific performance tasks that would mean they are “doing” The BIG Three in an effort that it would become contagious and concrete....

http://oodlesofart.blogspot.com/2009/04/falling-back-in-space-portraits-3rd.html This pin from our Big Three board has our brains running in all sorts of directions! It is an “out of this world” idea for once again, reiterating and teaching The BIG Three. Instead of following these directions exactly, consider having the children trace their hands while...

Dr. Shane Rayburn is the principal at Oakwood Elementary School in Oakwood, GA. OES is a Title I school that has worked extremely hard to be a place where all children and staff are empowered to embrace the leader within. And he happens to use and love Core Essentials! It’s open house.  An energy reverberates the hallways.  Doors are open and a flood of storied...

Chronicles of a FIRST YEAR Core Essentials School: Follow their journey as they take an already invested group of educators and equip them with the common language and Core Essential tools to change the values culture! Every school, organization, team, group, or relationship has it. That reputation, stereotype, sometimes misconception/sometimes harsh...