Category: School Resources
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Strategies for Obtaining Effective End-of-the-Year Parent Feedback
The end of the school year is always a busy time for everyone involved in education. However, it’s also a crucial time to hear from parents to gain insight into how your school can improve. Collecting parent feedback is essential to retaining your students, and it’s a way to make parents know they active participants…
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Strategies to Support Mental Health in Teachers: A School Leaders Guide
National Teacher Appreciation Week is a special time of year where we all take a moment to honor and celebrate the hardworking teachers who dedicate their lives to educating our children. Teachers are the backbone of our education system, and their mental health and well-being are vital in ensuring that they are able to perform…
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¿Por Qué Deberías Elegir una Escuela Con Programas Bilingües?
Sabemos que un aspecto crucial para el éxito académico y social de nuestros hijos es escoger la escuela adecuada. Para aquellos de nosotros que hablamos español como lengua materna o que recién nos hemos mudado a Estados Unidos, esto puede ser un reto. ¡Pero no tienes que navegar este proceso solo! En Schola® estamos aquí…
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What Parents Want From Their Child’s School: Insights From Recent Surveys
Parents start searching for a new school for their children, wanting to provide the best opportunities for a successful future, but it often becomes overwhelming trying to pick the one that will help their kids achieve holistic development. Parents want their children’s PK-12 education to go beyond just academic excellence. They are looking for schools…
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5 Tips to Make Your PK-12 Open House the Talk of the Town
As a school leader, you know that the power of an open house and recruitment events cannot be underestimated. These events offer a window into your school’s community, culture, and values, and can be the deciding factor for prospective families looking for a school that aligns with their needs and goals. To help you make…
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3 Steps to Increase Parent Involvement for Student Success
If you’ve been working in the education field for a while or even for a day, you already know that family engagement = student success. Cultivating the success of each and every student is not a one-way street; it requires teamwork and commitment from teachers, parents, school leaders, and even additional resources that can help…
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Share the Power of Gratitude in 4 Easy Steps
During this time of the year, no matter where we are or what we are doing, we are reminded to be grateful for the things that make our lives special. And regardless of what we are thankful for, experiencing gratitude is essential in our journeys toward well-being. Gratitude, like any other skill, is something we…
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3 Effective Ways to Ignite School Spirit and Increase Student Retention
You know that feeling you get when you see your school’s basketball team score, when you hear that someone went to the same school as you did, or when you see students wearing the school’s uniform in an unexpected place? It’s called school spirit, and we’ve all felt it at some point! This type of…
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4 Ways To Promote School Events Families Won’t Want To Miss
As a school leader, you already know that students enjoy fun events at school, from fall festivities to Christmas shows; they are excited to mix up their daily routines, show what they’ve learned, and enjoy exciting experiences with their peers. But how can you use your school events to bring in new families and show…
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4 Homework Assignments to Ramp Up Student Recruitment
New school year, new enrollment goals! As the semester is already in full swing, school leaders all across the country are implementing new strategies and tactics to meet and even exceed their enrollment goals. So what steps are you going to take to ensure your school knocks recruitment out of the park this year? At…
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How to Take Experiential Learning Beyond the Science Lab
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” – Benjamin Franklin We’ve all heard this phrase throughout our educational journeys, but it never loses relevance! Even if every school is different and each student unique, giving children the right tools and opportunities to learn through real-world experiences is…
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How To Highlight Your After-School Activities
What makes your school special? For many schools, it’s not just the academics that make their education so great, but the wide array of after-school programs and electives that are offered. At Schola, we know how important it is to highlight what makes each school unique to reach its enrollment goals. Every day more parents…
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3 Tips To Showcase Your Outstanding Staff
Every school has many different characteristics that make it unique, but one thing they should all have in common is a passionate and dedicated staff. Educators are the backbone of every school, and the way they engage with students and their families is crucial for schools’ success. Do you remember a teacher that made a…
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11 Expert Text and Email Examples To Prospective Parents
We know that it can be challenging to expertly craft a follow-up email to parents. Making your email sound enticing and calling parents to action without sounding too pushy is not always easy. Or maybe you’re trying to leverage SMS and trying to decide what to text parents with the limited space. Whatever the case…
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Communication Tools To Learn More About Your School Community
As August comes to an end, both teachers and students have already settled in their classrooms and are ready to tackle the semester. We know you have many exciting plans to keep students engaged and support your staff’s needs so learning is a successful experience for everyone at school. But what tactics are you using…