News: Special Needs Students
Using Valid Assessments of Students’ Functional Literacy, Math, and Language Arts Skills to Instructionally Group Students this Fall (Part I)
The Importance of Assessing—NOT Guessing—Each Student’s COVID-19 SlideIntroduction Despite the fact that the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths continues unabated—if not increasing in man...
Read Full ArticleThe Pandemic Unearths the Raw Reality of Educational Inequity and Disparity
COVID-19 Forces Us to Realize We Need to Change the VillageDear Colleagues,Introduction With the pandemic still dominating our world in innumerable ways, most of us are still sequestered,...
Read Full ArticleUnderachieving, Unresponsive, Unsuccessful, Disabled, and Failing Readers (Part II)
Underachieving, Unresponsive, Unsuccessful, Disabled, and Failing ReadersDiagnostic Assessment Must Link to Intervention: If We Don’t Know “Why,” We Can’t Know “What” (Part II)Dear Colleagues,Introduc...
Read Full ArticleLiteracy Instruction and Student Reading Proficiency: The Multi-Tiered Whole Must be Greater than the Sum of Its Disconnected Parts (Part I)
How a Comprehensive Blueprint Prevents Isolated Solutions and Inconsistent ResultsDear Colleagues,Introduction Well. . . “all of a sudden,” there has been a nationwide rush of policy, publ...
Read Full ArticleThe Year in Review (Part II): Schools’ Pursuit of Effective School Discipline, Classroom Management, and Student Self-Management Strategies
Prevention, Disproportionality, Trauma, and Seclusions & RestraintsDear Colleagues,Introduction With the whole New Years thing going on, and our transition into a new decade, I was in the mood to st...
Read Full ArticleThe Year in Review (Part I): Schools’ Pursuit of Academic Achievement and Student Proficiency
Curriculum, Instruction, Intervention, and EquityDear Colleagues,Introduction It seems that every day this month, I’ve received yet another e-mail or Blog from a national educational organization, n...
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