April 3, 2021
Why Schools Need to Evaluate and Validate Before They Select and Direct (Their New Federal Funds to Services and Interventions)Be Cautious—What We Don’t Know about Student Mental Health and the…
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March 20, 2021
A Consumer Alert: Student Awareness Does Not Usually Change Student Behavior-- Do We Need to Dig a Moat Around CASEL’s Approach to Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)?Dear Colleagues,Introduction: Schools, as Consumers, are Responsible…
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March 6, 2021
A Pandemic Playbook to Organize Your School’s Academic and Social-Emotional Strategies Now and for the 2021-2022 School Year: Where We’ve Been and What You Should DoDear Colleagues,Introduction With the “first anniversary”…
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February 20, 2021
The Pandemic, Students’ Academic Performance, and Preparing for the Rest of the School Year: Helping Teachers Prioritize Their Efforts, Emotions, and EfficacyDear Colleagues,Introduction This week, I participated in a series of Zoom…
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February 6, 2021
Implementing Effective Multi-Tiered Systems of Supports during a Pandemic: Upgrading Your Academic and Social-Emotional Prevention, Assessment, and Interventions. It’s Not Your Fault. . . .[CLICK HERE for a Complimentary 35-Minute…
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January 23, 2021
An Inaugural Poem for the Ages Challenges All Educators as the Torch is Passed: A Lesson Plan to Help School Staff Become Part of the SolutionDear Colleagues,Introduction: January 20, 2017…
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January 9, 2021
Analyzing, Understanding, and Changing Extreme Behavior: In the Capitol and In the ClassroomIt’s Never as Easy as We Think or WantDear Colleagues,Introduction Less than a week into the New Year,…
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December 19, 2020
Putting the “Power of Three” to Work for Your Students, Staff, Schools, or Systems: The Three Hours during Your Holiday Break that You Need to Succeed in 2021Dear Colleagues,Introduction While I…
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December 5, 2020
Training Racial Bias Out of Teachers: Who Ever Said that We Could? Will the Fact that In-Service Programs Cannot Eliminate Implicit Bias Create a Bias Toward Inaction?Dear Colleagues,Introduction Since this past…
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November 21, 2020
Curbing the Pandemic Slide by Putting the Right Students into the Right Instructional Groups. Which Peas are You Going to Put in Your Pandemic Pod? (Part II)Dear Colleagues,Introduction While clearly…
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