Build Back Wiser

Get Ready to Build Back Wiser!

Leaders and school communities were called to innovate during these challenging times.

You, your community, your parents, your learners, and your school teams rose to the challenge.

Connect with the Build Back Wiser team and leaders from across the globe as you make plans to reimagine education where learners, families, educators, and our communities rise to the challenge of building schools that are inclusive for our families and learners with a wide range of perspectives (National Parents Union).

Engage in appreciative inquiry to honor your collective impact; reflect on lessons learned, and take collective action. Get ready to collaborate and Build Back Wiser through our five-part FREE leadership series:

✓ Boosting Leadership Well Being with Support and Self Care

✓ Empowering Human Resilience

✓ Know Your Impact: Reimagining Assessment & Intervention

✓ Cultivating Community Connection through Belonging

✓ Crafting Your Build Back Wiser Plan

Meet the Build Back Wiser Team

Dr. Peter DeWitt, Professor Alan Daly, Dr. Carolyn Gery, Ainsley Rose, Dr. Paul Bloomberg, Dr. Michael McDowell, Kara Vandas, Starr Sackstein, Tom Heirck, John Krownapple, Isaiah McGee, Connie Hamilton, Paul Martuccio, Rachel Fairchild, Lori Cook, Isaac Wells, Kristin Rademaker, Vivett Dukes, Marisol Quevedo Rerucha, and Anthony Lodico

Part Two: Empowering Human Resilience

A resilient culture has the capacity to bounce back after adversity. It is the flexibility of the culture to adapt, flex with a situation, and respond in a variety of ways that make the culture stronger. An integrated approach between cultural competency, trauma-informed care, and restorative-resilience practices is needed to build back wiser.

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The most effective leaders and educators have a restorative heart and mindset. They embrace their own humanity and that of others through: reflection, growth, vulnerability, and healing. Effective leaders and the school community must ensure that our learning organization is not just efficient and effective, but also a place where conflict can be resolved and school goals are approached with a collective focus on community.

Part Four: Nurturing a Community Culture of Belonging through Dignity

For students, belongingness precedes achievement. For schools, excellence requires equity! While efforts to achieve equity in education are prominent in school districts across this country, the effective implementation that results in meaningful change remains elusive. Even with access to compelling theories and approaches such as multicultural education, culturally responsive teaching, culturally relevant instruction, culturally sustaining pedagogy, schools still struggle to implement equitable change that reshapes the academic experiences of students and families marginalized by the prevailing history, culture, and traditions in public education (Cobb & Krownapple, 2019). Activating quality parent partnerships are key as we build back wisely. Parents and families have the power to change the conversation and politics around education reform and innovation.

Collaborate with the build back wiser team to equip educators with the tools necessary to deliver the promise of democracy through schools by breaking the cycle of equity dysfunction once and for all.