Teamwork makes the…nah.
Leadership requires more than witty phrases. Read about a successful organizational retreat and lessons learned about taking care of your people.
Let’s Talk Coding…
Providing meaningful programming for incarcerated or detained students is not only vital, it’s easier than you think.
Finding Joy
Finding joy in your work is essential. Leaders can also ensure that team members maximize their joy at work. By identifying the strengths and constraints of each individual on a team, leaders can build an environment where everyone on the team does more of what they love.
Anybody can teach, right?
Hiring certified educators in our classrooms and to run our educational divisions and institutions is a critical ingredient to learner outcomes. Viva la educators!
Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports
Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is a behavioral framework that improves outcomes through support rather than punishment. Dr. Lopez explores how PBIS can be used in carceral spaces and public schools with great success.
From Burned Out to Fired Up: Stress
Teachers and correctional professionals share common stressors…these are tough jobs with unique challenges. We can avoid burnout by managing the stress that comes with the work. Explore two great resources to help you manage stress, no matter what you do for a living or how you live.
Media + Correctional Programming = WIN!
What are the challenges and benefits to inviting media inside your institution or campus to see and report on the great work you’re doing? This post takes a look and offers some insight into getting our work out to the rest of the world.
Are You Open to Feedback?
Learning how to give and receive feedback is a critical tool in any great leader’s tool kit.
From Burned Out to Fired Up: Sleep
Lack of sleep is one component of burn out. Let’s look at why and how we can get what we need to be our healthiest selves.
Giving Students Choices (even incarcerated ones)
Choice menus are an excellent way to give learners and staff agency over their learning. Used in a behavioral modification framework, they can also motivate learners (students and staff) by incentivizing pro-social behaviors. Working in a jail, prison, detention center, or other alternative setting? Choice menus work wonders!
What about Project Based Learning?
Can you safely use Project Based Learning in a carceral classroom with incarcerated students? Absolutely!
Going Inside Out
This week, Sunday Morning Coffee discusses The National Inside Out Prison Exchange Program, an innovative method of bringing college to incarcerated students to learn alongside main campus students.
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