Getting the Most Out of the Marshall Memo

The weekly Memo has great potential for addressing a variety of front- and back-burner school issues. This webinar will describe how the Memo is assembled and written and walks school leaders through five possible ways for principals, district leaders and teachers to use the Memo, with specific examples:

• Each week, selecting one or two articles that will be of interest to certain teacher teams or individuals, clipping those Memo summaries, sharing them by e-mail or paper copy, and then following up to see people’s takeaways.
• Choosing certain articles for full-faculty meetings, with everyone reading a hard copy silently (this usually takes only 5-10 minutes), getting in small groups, following a discussion protocol, then having a whole-group discussion of possible action steps.
• Going into the Memo archive to research a particular issue – for example, grading policies, social-emotional learning, or curriculum unit design.
• Having study groups or teacher teams use the archive to research a particular issue that the school has prioritized, and then reporting findings to the staff.
• Sharing certain article summaries with parents.

Target Audience

Educators and Learning Leaders.