News: Education policy
Do Black and Students with Disabilities’ Lives Matter to the U.S. Department of Education?
Institutional Bias, Power-Based Decisions, and Ineffective Practices?Dear Colleagues,Is Institutional Bias Driving the U.S. Department of Education?Friday, July 10, 6:14 AM I rolled over i...
Read Full ArticlePreparing NOW to Address Students’ Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Needs Before They Transition Back to School (Part II)
Let’s Use Caring and Common Sense as Our Post-Pandemic Guides (Including a Bonus Podcast)Dear Colleagues,Introduction Last time, in Part I of this Blog Series, I discussed concerns that some in the...
Read Full ArticleThe Pandemic Unearths the Raw Reality of Educational Inequity and Disparity
COVID-19 Forces Us to Realize We Need to Change the VillageDear Colleagues,Introduction With the pandemic still dominating our world in innumerable ways, most of us are still sequestered,...
Read Full ArticleRethinking Your Personal, Professional, and Partnership Goals During CoVid-19’s “Lifestyle Sequestration”
Disruptive Innovation and Redefining What is Truly ImportantDear Colleagues,Introduction As I write this week’s Blog, there is no way to avoid or ignore our current sequestered state of affairs. ...
Read Full ArticleUnderachieving, Unresponsive, Unsuccessful, Disabled, and Failing Readers (Part II)
Underachieving, Unresponsive, Unsuccessful, Disabled, and Failing ReadersDiagnostic Assessment Must Link to Intervention: If We Don’t Know “Why,” We Can’t Know “What” (Part II)Dear Colleagues,Introduc...
Read Full ArticleLiteracy Instruction and Student Reading Proficiency: The Multi-Tiered Whole Must be Greater than the Sum of Its Disconnected Parts (Part I)
How a Comprehensive Blueprint Prevents Isolated Solutions and Inconsistent ResultsDear Colleagues,Introduction Well. . . “all of a sudden,” there has been a nationwide rush of policy, publ...
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