Teaching & Leading Guides
Teaching and Leading Guides
The following are collections of all of our teaching and leading guides. Guides are intended to inspire and support teachers in their efforts to increase their creative teaching and support leaders with increasing teacher retention.
A Promising Practice is an instructional strategy, resource, or process used by educators that show a positive impact in the classroom and school community. Promising Practices are submitted by Maricopa County teachers and leaders and organized into the categories of Creative Instruction, Ed Leadership, STEM, and Student Well-Being.
Promising Practices Categories
How To Guides are easy to follow “maps” to implement a lesson, project, initiative, etc. How-To Guides are created by Maricopa County educators by invitation as well as instructional experts from our office. How-To Guides are organized into the categories of Creative Instruction, Ed Leadership, STEM, and Student Well-Being.
How-To Guides Categories
Culture & Climate Calendars are monthly, themed guides for leaders to strengthen their practice by adopting strategies and behaviors that create professional environments where teachers and students thrive. Calendars can be printed, but many have links to additional resources which are active in the online PDF.
Culture and Climate Calendars
- All Culture and Climate Calendars
- ❤️ Campus Well-Being
- ❤️ Care and Appreciation
- ❤️ Professional Self-Care
- ❤️ Self-Care Strategies
- ❤️ Teacher Well-Being
- 🌱 Change Leadership
- 🎁 Appreciation
- 🎁 Gratitude
- 🎁 Valuing Teachers Authentically
- 🎉 Bringing In The New Year
- 🎉 Celebrations
- 🎉 Closing Out The Year
- 🎤 Communication
- 🎤 Storytelling
- 🎯 Retention Levers and Collecting Data
- 🎯 Retention Through Intention
- 🎯 Revisiting Focus
- 💥 Inspiration
- 🔄 Distributed Leadership
- 🔄 Shared-Leadership
- 🔄 Strategies from Shared-Leadership Network
- 🔈 Feedback
- 🔈 Gathering Feedback to Inform Vision and Planning
- 🔑 Autonomy
- 🔗 Connection And Belong
- 🔗 Engagement
- 🔗 Relationships and Connections
- 🔗 Strengthening Family Partnerships
- 🔮 Vision and Planning
- 🕒 Protecting Teacher Time
- 🪞 Reflection
- 🪫 Recharging
The STEM Lesson Plans are guides that outline a teacher's objectives for a lesson, including what students will learn, how they will learn it, and how their progress will be assessed. These lesson plans were developed through an ASU’s Arizona STEM Acceleration Project (ASAP).
Collections of activities, posters, and printables to support creative teaching, recognition events, and celebrations. New Freebies are announced on Facebook on Fridays. Follow us there to not miss out on our next #FreebieFriday!