Declining Enrollments Challenge Schools Students today are not the same as those who filed into classrooms even 20 years ago; they are pushing the envelope for defining what learning and related instruction looks like. More students are opting for homeschooling and virtual schooling: Today’s Students Want More from School Today’s students are truly the “digital […]
Go Beyond the Summer Checklist Summer offers school leaders a rare gift: a (brief) window of clarity. The urgent demands pause. The inbox quiets. As a result, there’s space to think, breathe, and reset before the next school year begins. Then again… many school leaders describe summer quite differently—more like a sprint. It’s a scramble […]
Help Your New Literacy Program Rock Results! I’ve been in education long enough to know it’s never about the curricular program. In fact, no literacy program succeeds in a vacuum. Its success depends not only on the cognitive readiness of the student and the professional capacity of the teacher to implement it, but also on […]
Curriculum tells us what to teach. But what if the most profound and lasting impact we have on our students lies not just in what we teach, but in how we teach it? Preparing Students for Today and Their Future Our students will navigate careers that may not even exist yet, solve problems we can’t […]
High-Quality Teachers = Student Achievement Raising student achievement is top on everyone’s minds these days. Schools are continually looking at new programs to adopt, new materials to purchase for instructional purposes. Yet, research consistently points to the impact of the quality of a teacher on student achievement. For example, John Hattie’s meta-analysis of more than […]