CheckBox Pro Series

Sam Brobeck is the Strategy and Partnerships Lead at Education Resource Strategies, a national nonprofit that partners with district, school and state leaders to transform how they use resources (people, time, and money) to create strategic school systems that enable every school to prepare every child for tomorrow, no matter their race or income. Sam shared about the budgetary challenges that man...

Sawyer Schafbuch founded Everydesk, a marketing consultancy aimed to help schools highlight their mission and vision to students and families! So many schools are doing the good work, but don't know how to strategically market their program to the right audience.  Sawyer walks us through why student recruitment needs to be a school's baseline when thinking about their revenue. Filling every seat g...

I had a conversation with Steven Ward who is the Principal at Prodeo Columbia Heights Elementary Academy. Steven has been intentional about his professional development and continues to invest in both himself and his team through strong and targeted PD. He provides three metrics for assessing the value of a professional development opportunity. Aligned to school's mission and vision Aligned profes...

Today we will be hearing from Kela Small. Kela is the Associate Partner of National Programs at Relay Graduate School, where she helps principals and their supervisors improve their instructional leadership skills.  Kela has been working in education since 2011 starting as a MS writing teacher, to academic dean, principal and now principal coach. We are going to hear a bit more about her work as a...