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This mini-simulation focuses on classroom management strategies for preservice or newer teachers. Ms. Carter faces a challenge when a student, Sarah, refuses to put away her phone during class. The simulation explores various approaches Ms. Carter can take to handle the situation effectively, highlighting the potential consequences of each option.
As a high school student, you see that a friend has made a false social media posting that negatively impacts several others in your friend group. As you respond to the individuals involved, your decisions are reflected in short-term and long-term impacts on relationships and future prospects.
As the principal of Fairfield Middle School, you must work with teachers who are unhappy about increased class sizes. At the same time, absenteeism is also rising. In addition, the discipline policy is applied unevenly. How will you guide initiatives to improve student performance while balancing teacher and leadership buy-in and commitment to sustainable change?
You have been Superintendent for the past three years. During the last formal review by the Board, a notable increase in suspensions across several middle and high schools was noted. How will you navigate the perspectives and needs of various stakeholders to optimize the district’s new school discipline policy going forward?
In this simulation, you are an Academic Advisor at a boarding school who must advocate for interventions that you and your colleagues identify that your advisee needs while collaborating with the advisee’s family who does not necessarily want their child to have these recommended supports.
In this simulation, you are an Academic Advisor at a boarding school who must advocate for interventions that you and your colleagues identify that your advisee needs while collaborating with the advisee’s family who does not necessarily want their child to have these recommended supports.
The central issue of this sim is communication between a teacher and a parent about the performance of the student. The problem of practice is that parent-teacher conferences can end up being difficult conversations for the teacher if the teacher assumes the conversation is about the performance of the student while the parent wants it to be about the performance of the teacher.
As a first-year principal of an elementary school wrapping up the school year, you are responsible for building and staffing a plan to improve academic achievement in the coming year. In this simulation, you will encounter stakeholders in the plan whose needs vary and must be considered fairly. As a tool for practicing school leadership and decision-making, you will first reflect on your own core values. Through the simulation, you will receive feedback on how your choices influence degrees of stress and buy-in at your school.
This simulation takes place in a suburban school district at the end of the school year. After the prom, two students trespass on the high school principal’s property. It turns out that one of the students is a board member’s child. The superintendent must navigate the relationship with the board member and board chair and also decide how to support or manage the principal’s reaction to the incident.
This simulation involves a school leader at a struggling high school, seeking to build relationships and improve academic achievement while working with multiple stakeholder groups. Engaging with teachers and administrators, you’ll have the opportunity to confront behaviors that get in the way of academic achievement.
This simulation considers just how complex the issue of race is–in the classroom, in the community, and in the broader societal landscape. Playing the role of principal at a suburban, racially and socioeconomically diverse high school, you will address sensitive issues such as conversations about race with students, and how teaching professionals and district staff can support those conversations.
You are a principal in a school district committed to expanding the use of technology. You must deal with issues that arise between increasing communication and protecting privacy. You have received a district mandate, and your staff has received training. Now, is time to promote use of technology among many reticent teachers, while reigning in one renegade without squashing enthusiasm.
As the principal of an elementary school, concerns from staff have been raised regarding the clothing being worn by one of your novice teachers. Before you are able to address this issue, additional concerns surface about this novice teacher’s instruction. In this simulation, you will need to facilitate difficult conversations with this novice teacher to address these concerns.