1. Invite 5 students to a faculty meeting
2. Eliminate staff and student bathrooms
3. Ask students to facilitate important school wide meetings
4. Start each day with a morning meeting and check in, and listen to each other. (How are you? How are you feeling today?)
5. Ask students to develop rubrics for judging “excellent” work
6. End courses/units with a culminating projects designed by students, about something that really matters to them
7. Have students read each other’s papers and comment on them, directly to each other
8. Get students to determine the homework policy (even in the early grades)
9. Charge students with deciding what goes up on the walls at school
10. Pass a “talking stick” during intense discussions so that everyone gets a chance to speak
11. Eat lunch with kids (or teachers) you rarely talk to
12. Ask students to attend parent/teacher conferences
13. Ask students to evaluate themselves prior to parent/teacher conferences
14. Ask students to run parent/teacher conferences
15. Have everyone practice “yes/and” more than “no/but” (because success is available to everyone!)
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