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Improving School Climate and Student Engagement: The Final Piece of (and Assembling) the School Success Puzzle (Part V)
This final Blog in a five-part “school success” series focuses on School Climate and Student Engagement as both the foundation and culmination of the other four areas: Quality Instruction, Discipline...
Read Full ArticlePreparing for Excellence This Coming School Year: Summer Planning to Strategically Transform Classroom Instruction (Part I)
Blog focuses on the importance of strategic summer planning to drive school improvement during the coming new school year. Focusing on improving classroom instruction, the Blog outlines seven research...
Read Full ArticleMinimizing Classroom Distractions to Maximize Student Learning: Building Walls to Buffer Politics, Phones, Prejudice, and Preferential Treatment
This Blog analyzes the impact of external political and internal classroom distractions on teachers’ ability to teach and students’ ability to learn. It presents research that dismisses political atta...
Read Full ArticleHow Fad or Flawed School Programs Increase Poor Teacher Morale and Resistance to Change: When Education Keeps Adopting the Same Shaky Stuff, It Will Keep Getting Repeated Rocky Results (Part V)
Blog reviewed and integrated recent articles reporting that (a) teachers’ job satisfaction and mental health worsened last year, as did the need for student supports and interventions; and (b) distric...
Read Full ArticleWill Your School “Win the Gold” for Your Students This Year? Why the U.S. Women’s Gold Medal Olympic Gymnastics Team is a Model for All Schools (Part III)
Blog discusses the courage, characteristics, and conditioning that educators need to consider so that their schools are successful for all students—especially as a new school year approaches. This Blo...
Read Full ArticleThe Seven Sure Solutions for Continuous Student and School Success: “If You Don’t Know Where You’re Going, Any Road Will Get You There” (Part I)
Blog discusses the Seven Sure Solutions to school improvement and students success as significant numbers of students continue to academically under-perform and demonstrate social, emotional, and beha...
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