With staff vision and student and community engagement, turn the unused or under-used areas of your school buildings or grounds into gardens, labs, and makerspaces.

Tapping your community for funds, resources, and labor isn't easy, but with planning, persistence, and good will, rallying local support for a major school project benefits everyone.

Attract parent volunteers by giving them their own space and appointing a coordinator whose job it is to make them feel welcome, comfortable, and needed.

Having kids in all grades read multivolume book series pays off in student fluency and engagement with reading.

Layering incentives at classroom, grade, and schoolwide levels creates a culture of positivity and achievement where students celebrate milestones in their individual and shared learning.

Enrichment classes like toy making and candy chemistry combine fun with serious content in science, technology, engineering, the arts, and math.

Flower and vegetable beds around school can serve as a multidisciplinary classroom.

Elementary students study saving, spending, and sharing on the way to putting a collective $30,000 in the bank in a year.

Franchising allows a single principal to lead multiple campuses concurrently. These individuals must be proven, trusted leaders given the flexibility to focus on the best results.