Setting the Tone: Your Guide for Back-to-School

 

We’ve put together Setting the Tone: Your Guide for Back-to-School, filled with resources, articles, and activities to help you build a foundation of belonging and connection, get students ready for a year of development, and start with a winning attendance strategy.

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Set the Tone: Your Guide for Back-to-School
Setting the Tone: Your Guide for Back-to-School is a practical resource to help leaders and educators create a culture for success at the beginning of the year.

Inside the guide, you'll find research, activities, and more to:
  • Support a strong attendance strategy that gets students back in the classroom
  • Build belonging and connection across campus
  • Support executive functioning like healthy habit building, and more

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The shared belief that anything is possible this year is not automatic—It's built through leadership, intentional planning, and the culture and climate you create. It looks like a shared language every district speaks, clear ways to measure what matters, and the confidence to act on what you learn to help students and educators thrive.

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