The No-Nonsense Nurturer® Leader: Behaviors for Transformational School Leadership
A healthy culture is the essential foundation for any high-performing organization. While it is the collective responsibility of all adults in the school to develop, share, and protect it, the process of building this foundation is anchored heavily in the behaviors, habits, and mindsets of its leaders (Coyle, 2018). All leaders feed the culture of […]
4 Steps to Classroom Turnaround: How do you turn around a class that you’ve let get out of control?
Transform My Classroom: I recently walked into a classroom to hear a teacher tell a student across the room “Jason, you’re on step 6 on the consequence chart.” It was only 9:40 am! I wondered to myself what this student could have possibly done so wrong to be on step 6 of 7 so early […]
A Powerful Paradigm Shift for Educators
Given the amount of time teachers and students spend together over the course of a year, relationships between the educators and students will form. It is inevitable. How productive those relationships are for both teachers and students, is left to question. Understanding the tendencies of teachers who are not No-Nonsense Nurturers may support you to […]
Effectively Leading Change through Inspiration and Accountability
In my office, to the right of my desk, is a bookshelf. The first four shelves are filled with books about topics that you might expect: being an effective principal, promoting instructional improvement, and supporting students with special needs, to name a few. The bottom and deepest shelf is stacked – vertically and horizontally – […]
How No-Nonsense Nurturers Respond When Tragedy Strikes (Even Somewhere Else)
Even if your school doesn’t share a zip code with Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, your school community may be dealing with its own difficulties related to the tragedy there. Fear, empathic grief, a desire to do something, a self-assessment – these are just a few of the feelings that can surface, even when […]
Climbing the Ladder
We all want to feel cared for and valued by the significant people in our lives. As teachers, that means not only building professional relationships with the other adults in the school, but most importantly with the students with whom we have the opportunity to serve. As classroom teachers, we hold a great deal of […]
Meet our Team: Vynesha Johnson
In this blog series, we are interviewing members of the CT3 team about their background in education as well as the expertise that they each bring to their work with educators across the country. Why did you want to become an educator? This brings up a lot of emotions for me when I talk about […]
Meet Our Team: Karen Baptiste
In this new blog series, we are interviewing members of the CT3 team about their background in education as well as the expertise that they each bring to their work with educators across the country. Why did you want to become an educator? Being a teacher was never part of my career plan. I didn’t […]
Thoughts on Recent Events from our CEO and Co-Founder
As educators working with marginalized populations across the country, it’s been an emotional week following the events in Charlottesville and the response of the current administration. Our work at CT3 is first and foremost to promote social justice, love, acceptance, and a thirst for learning. The events of this weekend note a deepening crisis in our country and for our […]
No-Nonsense Nurturer® and the Social Needs of the Brain
I remember a time in elementary school when my friend and I were pulling at our Velcro shoes (making a scratchy sound) during a lesson when we were expected to be quiet, and the teacher sent me to my desk for being disruptive, but my friend did not get in trouble. I felt betrayed by […]
