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…
April 13, 2024
Laundromats, Lawyers, Learning Loss, and Life: An Autobiographical Day in Education[To listen to a synopsis and analysis of this Blog on the “Improving Education Today: The…
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…
July 22, 2023
When State Policy Undermines Effective Practice:Too Much of Anything Often Results in Nothing (or Worse)[To listen to a synopsis and analysis of this Blog on…
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…
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…
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?…
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…