July 13, 2024
The 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)[To…
March 16, 2024
Helping Schools Pick and Implement the Best Evidence-Based Programs (Part II)Avoiding Mistakes, Best Practices, and Pilot Projects[To listen to a synopsis and analysis of this…
September 23, 2023
Twelve Critical Components for (Continuous) School, Staff, and Student Improvement:Motivation Cannot Compensate for a System with Systemic Deficits[To listen to a synopsis and analysis of…
April 29, 2023
New Teacher Induction and “Tenure with Teeth”:Improving Hiring and Staffing in a Nation Where Teaching is At Risk (Part II)[To listen to a synopsis and…
August 6, 2022
Closing the (Pandemic?) Reading Gap in Our Schools: We Need to Link Sound Assessment with Strategic InterventionHow One New Federal Status Report (and Three Popular…
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?…
June 13, 2020
The Importance of Assessing—NOT Guessing—Each Student’s COVID-19 SlideIntroduction Despite the fact that the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths continues unabated—if not increasing in…
March 14, 2020
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,Introduction Last…
February 29, 2020
How a Comprehensive Blueprint Prevents Isolated Solutions and Inconsistent ResultsDear Colleagues,Introduction Well. . . “all of a sudden,” there has been a nationwide rush of…
November 9, 2019
Reviewing Two Recent Studies of Math Deficient StudentsDear Colleagues,Introduction Two Blog messages ago (on September 28th), I began a two-part discussion on:Closing Academic Gaps in…