If you owned an auto factory and the conveyor belt kept delivering cars that had no doors, or had faulty headlights, would you run the factory for a few more hours a day? Of course not! You’d redesign the system to address the root cause. When students attend school all day long and are not […]
Universal Design for Learning by CAST.ORG The amazing cast.org has developed a wonderful framework for ensuring that all students have access to rigorous content through lesson and curricular design, as opposed to after-the-fact accommodations and reteaching. In 2017, I wrote a blog post that shares the quintessential explanatory images: from adding a ramp to designing […]
If you’re looking to shift your secondary schedule to longer blocks of time and you want to support teachers in thinking differently about time … well, that’s why I’m writing this blog! What’s Your Why? I won’t spend too much time on this, but changing a schedule is not a goal, an end, or a […]
The Student Achievement – Teacher Professional Learning Connection There’s a domino game getting set up in schools today: Through the years, the research points to high-quality teachers as the most influential aspect of student achievement. If schools continue to lose high-quality teachers, hire less-than-qualified teachers, and fail to retain them, what hope is there for […]
The Emergence of Choice in Our Society The year is 1950. You probably shop at one local grocery store. You have your hair cut at the local hair salon. If you are fortunate enough to own a television, you might be able to access three network stations. The point is, people did not have the […]