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Rally!
How Outstanding Activities and Athletics Improve Academics and School Culture
Authors Casey Reason and Brandon J. Larson advocate for the strategic design and development of impactful activities and athletics to enhance school culture. Their Rally model provides strategies for aligning extracurricular programs with academic goals, fostering leadership, and boosting participation and engagement. The Rally approach improves student performance and promotes a thriving academic environment where students are eager to learn, participate, and grow.
Benefits
- Discover the positive impacts school activities and athletics exert on academics.
- Foster school unity in commitment to mutual standards, goals, and visions.
- Adopt step-by-step strategies to promote stronger athletics and activities that build school culture.
- Create greater opportunities for student leadership development through athletics and activities.
- Celebrate successes in ways that perpetuate and sustain a positive athletic school culture.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part 1: Set the Stage
Chapter 1: Examine Athletics and Extracurricular Activities in K–12 Education
Chapter 2: Understand the Past, Present, and Future of Activities and Athletics in School
Chapter 3: Define School Culture
Part 2: Stage the Rally
Chapter 4: Raise the Standard
Chapter 5: Align
Chapter 6: Learning Communities for ACTs
Chapter 7: Lead Through Students
Chapter 8: You’re Never Done Celebrating
Appendix: Rally Model School Evaluation
PRINTABLE REPRODUCIBLES
Chapter 4: Raise the Standard
- Figure 4.1: Benchmark Goal Sheet
- Figure 4.2: Sample School Offerings Survey
- Figure 4.3: Core Value Evaluation Survey
Appendix: Rally Model School Evaluation
- Raise the Standard
- Align
- Learning Communities for ACTs
- Lead Through Students
- You’re Never Done Celebrating
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
Books
- Dougherty, C., & Reason, C. (2019). Inside PLCs at work: Your guided tour through one district’s successes, challenges, and celebrations. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- DuFour, R., DuFour, R., & Eaker, R., Many, T. W., & Mattos, M. (2016). Learning by doing: A handbook for professional learning communities at work (3rd ed.). Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- DuFour, R., DuFour, R., Eaker, R., Many, T. W., Mattos, M., & Muhammad, A. (2024). Learning by doing: A handbook for professional learning communities at work (4th ed.). Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- DuFour, R., & Eaker, R. (1998). Professional learning communities at work: Best practices for enhancing student achievement. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- DuFour, R., & Fullan, M. (2013). Cultures built to last: Systemic PLCs at Work. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- DuFour, R., & Reason, C. (2015). Professional learning communities at work and high-reliability schools: Cultures of continuous learning. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- DuFour, R., & Reason, C. (2016). Professional learning communities at work and virtual collaboration: On the tipping point of transformation. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press .
- Reason, C. (2009). Leading a learning organization: The science of working with others. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Reason, C. (2015). Stop leading like it’s yesterday!: Key concepts for shaping today’s school culture. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
- Reason, C. (2017). Creating the anywhere, anytime classroom: A blueprint for learning online in grades K–12. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
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