Should Your School Have a Happiness Course? As K12 educators confront rising rates of anxiety and depression among students, particularly in high schools across America, many school stakeholders have questioned whether traditional academic curricula are sufficient to prepare students for life's challenges, or if something crucial is missing. More specifically, is there anything that can or should be done to help students be happier? Is Portrait of a Graduate (POG) the Answer?

Storytelling—one of humanity's oldest forms of engagement—remains vastly underutilized as a community engagement strategy for school districts.  As educational leaders, you can utilize two distinct storytelling strategies to take community engagement to another level.  The strategies can be used independently or together. 1. Storytelling for Sense-Making This approach serves as a systematic methodology for gathering and analyzing your community's lived experiences. By impleme

Imagine being able to travel into the future and see your school district in the year 2030. That's exactly what the West Clermont School District  in Ohio did when they built a Time Machine to take them there. Traveling Through Time via the RoadMap Report At the heart of West Clermont's time-traveling adventure is their RoadMap Report , an aspirational vision brought to life, showcasing what their 2030 Strategic Plan could produce by showing what their students and the school