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Evaluating the Essential Characteristics of Staff Cohesion and Collaboration: Assessing This Summer What You Want to See This Fall (Part IV)
The Blog discusses the seven characteristics (the “7 C’s”) of staff cohesion and collaboration: Communication, Caring, Commitment, Collaboration, Consultation, Celebration, and Consistency. The resear...
Read Full ArticleThe Core Characteristics of an Effective Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS): What You Need to Assess to Ensure Your Fall Success (Part III)
The Blog focuses on the importance of strategic summer planning to analyze and improve a district or school’s Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) for the coming new school year. It summarizes (a) t...
Read Full ArticlePreparing for Excellence This Coming School Year: Summer Planning to Strategically Transform Classroom Instruction (Part I)
Blog focuses on the importance of strategic summer planning to drive school improvement during the coming new school year. Focusing on improving classroom instruction, the Blog outlines seven research...
Read Full ArticleStudents’ Behavior is NOT Improving. . . But It Can: Classroom Management Lessons for Teachers from the Detroit Lions’ Shocking Playoff Loss
This Blog describes a national survey showing that student discipline and classroom management continues to get worse. Asserting that students can’t fix themselves, it uses the improvement of the NFL’...
Read Full ArticleEducation’s 2024 Year in Review: The Themes that Captured Our Time, Attention, Concern, and Consternation
This Blog revisits the 24 Blogs published this year, re-organizing them into four themes as part of an education-focused “Year in Review.” A brief analysis of these themes is provided relative to wher...
Read Full ArticleSchool Improvement Requires Changing Thinking, Not Just Changing Programs: The “Moneyball Thinking” Needed in Education
Using the movie “Moneyball” as a metaphor, we suggest that many districts and schools are locked into antiquated data analysis and school improvement thinking. We advocate that they use “Moneyball Thi...
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