News: Academic Achievement
Fitting Social Skills Instruction into the School Day: Necessity, Priority, Fidelity, and the Secondary School Advisory Period
To address students' current social skills gaps, this Blog described the characteristics of effective social skills programs; when and how classroom teachers can schedule and teach the social skills c...
Read Full ArticleEducators Need to Deal with Reality by Facing, Analyzing, and then Changing Reality
With all of the polarized political, Pandemic, and pressurized issues and challenges facing education right now, this Blog encourages districts and schools to analyze, prioritize, strategize, and reco...
Read Full ArticleThe Blog-Year in Review: Politics and the Pandemic, SEL and MTSS, Race and Disproportionality
The 23 Project ACHIEVE Blogs written in 2021 are organized into four themes that summarize the issues and needs for education come 2022. The themes are: (a) Politics, the Common Good, and How the Past...
Read Full ArticleWill the Controversy Over Critical Race Theory Damage Students’ Pursuit to Better Understand Cultural, Racial, and Individual Differences?
Blog analyzes students’ desires to learn and discuss the history and issues around race, racism, and educational inequity in contrast to recent legislation and policy changes, in the name of Critical...
Read Full ArticleWhat Do Race, Reading, Billy Joel, and Jeopardy Have in Common with our Nation’s Students?
Blog reports the results of a focus group of high school students and how their school is not addressing their social, emotional, and mental health needs. The resulting themes addressed issues of race...
Read Full ArticleA Setting is NOT an Intervention: It’s Where the Real Intervention Has the Highest Probability of Success
The Pandemic has altered how different settings in a school are organized, and this Blog emphasizes that where students and staff are placed is not as important as what happens once there. The Blog ap...
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