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Improving School Climate and Student Engagement: The Final Piece of (and Assembling) the School Success Puzzle (Part V)
This final Blog in a five-part “school success” series focuses on School Climate and Student Engagement as both the foundation and culmination of the other four areas: Quality Instruction, Discipline...
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 ArticleMinimizing Classroom Distractions to Maximize Student Learning: Building Walls to Buffer Politics, Phones, Prejudice, and Preferential Treatment
This Blog analyzes the impact of external political and internal classroom distractions on teachers’ ability to teach and students’ ability to learn. It presents research that dismisses political atta...
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...
Read Full ArticleBreaking Down the Wall Between General and Special Education Teachers in Our Schools: How Organizational Missteps Create Classroom Barriers
This Blog discusses the institutionalized wall between General Education and Special Education Teachers that has existed since Students with Disabilities were fully included in our nation’s public sch...
Read Full ArticleHow Fad or Flawed School Programs Increase Poor Teacher Morale and Resistance to Change: When Education Keeps Adopting the Same Shaky Stuff, It Will Keep Getting Repeated Rocky Results (Part V)
Blog reviewed and integrated recent articles reporting that (a) teachers’ job satisfaction and mental health worsened last year, as did the need for student supports and interventions; and (b) distric...
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