News: School Policy
A Pandemic Playbook to Organize Your School’s Academic and Social-Emotional Strategies Now and for the 2020-2021 School Year
This new Blog describes some of the psycho-educational "lessons learned" since the Pandemic began in March 2020, providing specific strategies to help schools strategically plan for the remainder of t...
Read Full ArticleInequities in the Distribution of School Funds to Individual Students Revisited: Required Transparency, ESEA/IDEA Funding Flexibility, and Multi-Tiered Efficacy
Reminding Schools of their Responsibilities and PossibilitiesDear Colleagues,Introduction Earlier this Spring, near the 65th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, I wrote two...
Read Full ArticleThe Art of Doubling Down: How the U.S. Department of Education Creates Grant Programs to Fund and Validate its own Frameworks
Call Congress: The Tainting of RtI, PBIS, MTSS, and SELDear Colleagues,Introduction In Poker, a player “doubles down” when they have a losing hand, but they want the other players to...
Read Full ArticleStates Take Note: How to Really Address the School Seclusion and Restraint Epidemic (Part II)
What State Departments of Education Need to Learn If Using PBIS to “Solve” This ProblemDear Colleagues,Introduction The number of seclusions and restraints in our nation’s schools—whether involving...
Read Full ArticleCongress Take Note: How to Really Address the School Seclusion and Restraint Epidemic (Part I)
The U.S. Department of Education Keeps Pushing PBIS, but PBIS Ain’t Got Nothing to GiveDear Colleagues,Introduction Seclusions (including isolation) and physical restraints (including mech...
Read Full ArticleRedesigning Multi-Tiered Services in Schools
Redefining the Tiers and the Difference between Services and InterventionsDear Colleagues,Introduction During the past month or so, I have been updating my electronic monograph, A Multi-Ti...
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