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Brass Tacks Innovations
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We partner with schools and organizations to enhance your creative capacity to reframe and solve challenging problems in a dynamic educational landscape.
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Tomorrow we're opening up early registration for our course on increasing T retention, including a 30% discount. Core to the course is the idea that school leaders CAN exert control over the job demands & resources that lead to T stress & burnout. Enroll here: bit.ly/3WyZADX #EduSky #TeacherSky
The graphic depicts Brass Tacks' Teacher Retention Model. The model borrows from the Job Demands and Resources Model common in industries other than education. The model also incorporates intentional adult social-emotional learning skills development and centers the school leader as the most important locus of control for decreasing teacher attention through increased, humanizing teacher support.
January 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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The Emotional Path is often an under-utilized concept in school leaders' teacher retention toolbox. retentionmatters.substack.com/p/to-achieve... #EduSky #TeacherSky #TeacherRetention #K12
The image displays a quote from Brass Tacks Substack on teacher retention: "Beyond content, teaching is about interacting with real people—students, parents, colleagues—all day long. Each of these encounters can spark a range of emotional reactions. Over time, these daily emotional ups and downs can shape a teacher’s job satisfaction, resilience, and effectiveness in the classroom, and too many down days can lead to teacher dissatisfaction and turnover."
January 27, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Teacher retention isn't about more $. Ts cite lack of admin support/supportive culture as key reason to leave. 1 problem? We don't support admin to learn/practice the necessary supporting skills. Our upcoming course on teacher retention does exactly that: bit.ly/3WyZADX #TeacherSky #EduSky
The image depicts the application of the Job Demands Resource model to education. It compares Personal, Classroom, and Workplace Demands with Personal, Classroom, and Workplace Resources, with School Leaders in the center as essential to managing the balance between demands and resources. The impact of the leaders' work directly impacts teacher well-being.
January 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Integrating AI into schools without integrating AI into schools. open.substack.com/pub/aiforedu... #AIED #EdTech #TeacherSky #EduSky
The image depicts a quote from a Substack post on how schools could use AI as a topic of inquiry rather than as a technology tool.
January 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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AI in edu isn't going anywhere, but that doesn't mean we have to use it in the intended ways. #AIED #EduSky #EdTech
The image presents a quote from the linked Substack post: "Here's the shift: Instead of implementing AI tools for classroom instruction or administrative tasks, schools could focus on teaching students to critically analyze AI itself."
January 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Easy to learn, hard to master: events impact teachers & teacher retention. 1 event—a student’s kind word, a parent-teacher conference, principal feedback—can spark emotional response. 1000s of events impact teachers daily. Turning knowledge into leadership practice is the tricky part. #TeacherSky
The illustration depicts the Affective Events Theory, supporting the post's statements about how thousands of events impact teachers on a daily basis and lead to emotional responses. Emotional impact ties into a teacher's decision to stay or leave the profession, making an awareness of the Affective Events Theory a useful tool in leaders' and teachers' toolbox.
January 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Tomorrow's AI for Edu Leaders post examines how to use AI without using AI: open.substack.com/pub/aiforedu...
#EdTech #EduSky #TeacherSky
How To Use AI To Supercharge Learning without Using AI
Maybe AI's best educational use case has nothing to do with using the technology.
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January 22, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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"The Emotional Path is about empowering and helping teachers to bring their best selves to their work every day, and sending them home with their best selves intact." #Edusky #TeacherSky #school
To Achieve Success,Should Schools Invest More Effort in the Emotional Path?
Don't let this one go less traveled.
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January 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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One big reason teachers & leaders are leaving the profession? Complexity. We cover this in Module 4 of our upcoming course on increasing teacher retention. brasstacks.mykajabi.com/opt-in #Edusky #Teachersky #school #K12 #principals
The image presents an illustration of the complexity educators face today. The diagram centers the individual, surrounded by complexities in social, policy, school, and personal domains. The main point of the illustration is to highlight how many different and complex factors surround educators on a daily basis, contributing to the stress and burnout of teachers and leaders.
January 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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"This isn’t about ignoring AI—it’s about managing your attention and energy in a way that serves your school best. AI might dominate headlines, but that doesn’t mean it has to dominate your leadership priorities." aiforeduleaders.substack.com/p/does-ai-re... #FETC #Edtech #Edusky
Does AI Really Require Your Attention?
For some school leaders, hype may be creating an illusion of importance.
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January 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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This week's Substack on AI for Edu Leaders is out. aiforeduleaders.substack.com/p/does-ai-re... Taking a moment to assess how present AI really is in one's week might lead to new perspectives for leaders' on how much time to invest in the tech. #FETC #EduSky #Edtech
Does AI Really Require Your Attention?
For some school leaders, hype may be creating an illusion of importance.
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January 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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This week's Substack AI For Edu Leaders comes out tomorrow. We explore a simple, non-scientific way for school leaders to assess just how much attention AI may really warrant in their practice and community. #EduSky #edtech
The image depicts a road sign that reads "Attention" against a blue sky background. The image aligns to the article's subject of school leader attention to AI.
January 15, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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If you're a school leader or teacher who might be interested in joining our testing group for the release of our upcoming course on teacher retention, please let us know! #EduSky #TeacherSky #teacherretention
The image depicts the title slide for Module 1 in our upcoming course on teacher retention.
January 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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So often when we coach school leaders on stress management they'll say "why didn't anyone teach me this?" It's impossible to be an effective instructional & organization leader w/o support to address the taxing realities of one's work. Our retention model starts there. #EduSky #k12
The image depicts a slide noting the impact of stress on teachers. It also presents an image illustrating how emotions are formed so as to inform educators about how they might be able to better manage and regulate emotion during their work.
January 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Module 1 in our upcoming Teacher Retention course introduces 8 key ideas in our model. The first is an obvious, but overlooked, reality: teaching is incredibly energy-intensive. To increase teacher retention, we believe leaders must design cultures that account for this fact. #TeacherSky #EduSky
The image displays an introduction slide to our upcoming course, "A Blueprint for Teacher Retention".
January 13, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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"Or, to be fully contrarian, ignoring today’s AI may not be just the default choice most overworked and under-resourced school leaders find themselves making; it may be the best choice." aiforeduleaders.substack.com/p/dont-chase... #EduSky #EdTech
Don't Chase AI Mastery
The AI of today is all but guaranteed to be nothing like the AI of tomorrow.
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January 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Our first 2025 AI For Edu Leaders Substack post is now available. We're starting off by exploring a contrarian view: Don't Chase AI Mastery.
open.substack.com/pub/aiforedu... #TeacherSky #EduSky #Edtech
Don't Chase AI Mastery
The AI of today is all but guaranteed to be nothing like the AI of tomorrow.
open.substack.com
January 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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As we're creating our course on teacher retention, we keep coming back to learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/stat... . Numerous views into the state of teacher well-being based upon a range of dynamics from leadership to testing outcomes pressure. #EduSky #TeacherSky #teacherretention
The image presents a map of the US, indicating which states face the greatest threat of teacher departure. Ranking moves from darkest green, or lowest threat, to lightest green, or greatest threat.
January 8, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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When we imagine teaching as a sport, certain physical, mental, and emotional burdens and opportunities can emerge.
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#EduSky #teacherretention #TeacherSky
The image depicts a female athlete running through foggy woods. The image supports the Substack's post discussing teachers as learning athletes.
January 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Our first Retention Matters Substack of 2025 will be up tomorrow! retentionmatters.substack.com #EduSky #TeacherSky
The image presents an image of a female runner in a park in the fog. The image connects to the post's title and topic, "Are Teachers the 'Learning Athletes' of Our Schools?"
January 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Happy New Year, everyone! We're excited to share our work on K12 teacher retention in the upcoming months, designed for school and teacher leaders, and based upon our backed-by-research retention model. #teachersky #principals #k12 #teacherretention
The image depicts our teacher retention model, which draws from the Job Demands and Resources model widely used in industries outside education.
January 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM