Tag: Positive Academic Support and Services (PASS) Model

Delegating Duties and Decisions in a Shared Leadership School: Avoiding Staff Reservations or Resentment

November 9, 2024

Delegating Duties and Decisions in a Shared Leadership School:Avoiding Staff Reservations or Resentment[To listen to a synopsis and analysis of this Blog on the “Improving…

Closing the (Pandemic?) Reading Gap in Our Schools: We Need to Link Sound Assessment with Strategic Intervention

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…

Teaching in this Fall’s Post-Pandemic World: Addressing the Academic Needs of the “Way High” and “Way Low” Students (Part II)

June 27, 2020

For Some Students, There Will Be No COVID-19 SlideDear Colleagues,Introduction   The pandemic clearly is not over.    In fact, over the past two weeks, the…

Underachieving, Unresponsive, Unsuccessful, Disabled, and Failing Readers (Part II)

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…

Literacy Instruction and Student Reading Proficiency: The Multi-Tiered Whole Must be Greater than the Sum of Its Disconnected Parts (Part I)

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…

The Year in Review (Part I): Schools’ Pursuit of Academic Achievement and Student Proficiency

December 7, 2019

Curriculum, Instruction, Intervention, and EquityDear Colleagues,Introduction   It seems that every day this month, I’ve received yet another e-mail or Blog from a national educational organization,…

Closing Secondary Students’ Significant Academic Skill Gaps: Teach at Their Grade Level or Their Skill Level? (Part II)

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…

Closing Academic Gaps in Middle and High Schools: When Students Enroll without Mastering Elementary Prerequisites (Part I)

September 28, 2019

The MTSS Dilemma—Differentiate at the Grade Level or Remediate at the Student Skill Level?Dear Colleagues,Introduction   I do a great deal of consulting in middle schools…

Redesigning Multi-Tiered Services in Schools

February 16, 2019

Redefining the Tiers and the Difference between Services and InterventionsDear Colleagues,Introduction   During the past month or so, I have been updating my electronic monograph, A…

Improving Student Outcomes When Your State Department of Education Has Adopted the Failed National MTSS and PBIS Frameworks (Part II of II)

October 21, 2017

Effective Research-to-Practice Multi-Tiered Approaches that Facilitate All Students’ SuccessDear Colleagues,A (Re)Introduction [CLICK HERE to read or re-read Part I of this two-part Blog discussion.] The focus…