May 11, 2024
When a School’s Multi-Tiered System of Supports Needs Support:How Do You Motivate Educators and Avoid Educational Malpractice?[To listen to a synopsis and analysis of this…
March 30, 2019
Call Congress: The Tainting of RtI, PBIS, MTSS, and SELDear Colleagues,Introduction In Poker, a player “doubles down” when they have a losing hand, but they…
September 22, 2018
The Department Needs to Change the Office of Special Education Programs at the “Top” in Order to Successfully Impact our Classrooms at the “Bottom”Dear Colleagues,Introduction Last week…
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…
October 7, 2017
Effective and Defensible Multi-Tiered and Positive Behavioral Support Approaches that State Departments of Education Will Approve and FundDear Colleagues,Introduction Over the past six weeks, as…
July 1, 2017
Building Strong Schools to Strengthen Student Outcomes—A Summer Review of Previous Blogs (II of IV)Dear Colleagues,IntroductionHappy (early) Fourth of July !!!Knowing that we are sometimes…
December 18, 2016
My “First 100 Days” if I was Appointed the New OSEP DirectorDear Colleagues,This is clearly a pivotal time for our country—politically, on all social and…
March 4, 2016
Using ESEA/ESSA’s New Flexibility to Purge the U.S. Department of Education’s Ineffective NCLB InitiativesDear Colleagues,Let’s start here:We DO need tohelp failingschools to turn-around and improve.We…
November 14, 2015
What the Report Says. . . Why RtI is Not Working. . . Recommendations for Improving the RtI ProcessDear Colleagues,This past week, a new federal…
October 5, 2015
Standards Don’t Teach. . . Teachers Do! How to Improve Classroom SuccessDear Colleagues,It’s easy to get personally overwhelmed in today’s day and age. We are…
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