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New NEA Policy Brief on School Discipline Highlights Project ACHIEVE as Effective Model
NEA Brief Describes Project ACHIEVE’s Successful School Discipline, Classroom Management, and Student Self-Management ApproachesDear Colleague,As the new school year begins for many of us, the importa...
Read Full ArticleDonald Trump, Negative Campaigns, and Social Skills: Modeling Intolerance for our Students?
Why the Education Community Needs to Seize this Teachable MomentThe campaign season that will elect our next President has clearly begun, and we have been hurled- - like it or not- - into a teachable...
Read Full ArticleThe Seven Sure Solutions to School Success: How Many Do You Need?
Looking to the Future by Reviewing the PastDear Colleagues,There are times when all of us need to pause, consider, reconsider, and regroup. This especially important given the speed of our personal an...
Read Full ArticleThe Unfulfilled Promise of Education: Students’ Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Skills
Why the “Soft Skills” are the Hard Skills, and Why they are Essential for Students’ Academic Success- - What Outcomes should be Targeted?Dear Colleagues,For all of the rhetoric about ensuring that stu...
Read Full ArticleSchool Disproportionality and the Charleston Murders: Systemic Change vs. State Statutes
Why New State Discipline Statutes will NOT Solve the Minority/Special Education Disproportionality Problem in Our Schools. . . Connections with Ferguson, Baltimore, and now Charleston, SCDear Colleagu...
Read Full ArticleSchool Improvement? The Questions your Department of Education Needs to Know
A New Federal Report Confirms that State Departments of Education are Trying, but Not Succeeding. . .Twelve Essential School Improvement Questions Needed to Jump-Start the ProcessDear Colleague,OK. ....
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