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3 Dos and Don’ts for Partnering with Parents in Elementary School Mathematics After COVID-19

Since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down schools around the world in March 2020, teachers, other educational leaders, and students have faced what may be the toughest and most challenging 12 to 18 months of their academic careers. In addition, parents, caregivers, and families were put […]

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A Systematic Approach to Impact Student Learning

Welcome back! In the previous blog post, we unpacked the first two phases of the Discovery (DIIE) model: discovery and interventions. The first post highlighted the importance of understanding both our learners and the standards in our classroom prior to selecting appropriate interventions. Ultimately undertaking both […]

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How to Use Student Shadowing to Understand Students’ Lived Experiences

Listen to authors Candace Raskin and Melissa Krull talking about navigating resistance to equity work on the Leaders Coaching Leaders podcast with Peter DeWitt:  Truly knowing our schools requires qualitative data as well as the quantitative data that makes up much of our data dashboards. Student shadowing uses direct observation to […]

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Five Recommendations for Increasing the Impact of Summer Learning Time

Why do meta-analyses of summer school suggest that it’s not very useful in ensuring students’ learning?  If you follow John Hattie’s work, you know that he collects studies of studies that allow him to scale a wide range of interventions for their overall impact on […]

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Improving Leadership by Improving Yourself

Listen to Randy Weiner and James Bailey discuss how to lead SEL by modeling it on the Leaders Coaching Leaders podcast with Peter DeWitt: Recent research on the principalship (Grissonm et al., 2021) shows the experience level of principals since 2016 has decreased from an average […]

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Speak Life

I do this work from a place of love and a place of pain. An educator of color who started her journey in education as a little black girl at a Title 1 inner city school, I was too often underestimated, second-guessed, confronted by racism, and surrounded […]

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Co-Teaching Multilingual Learners After COVID-19

Listen to authors Debbie Zacarian, Margarita Calderon, and Margo Gottlieb talking about re-engaging multilingual learners on the Leaders Coaching Leaders podcast with Peter DeWitt:  We Have to Change Anyway!  What a great opportunity to invent and innovate! Since we can no longer operate the same way we did in […]

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3 Practices for Teaching Math at a Distance and Face-to-Face Simultaneously

In this post from September 2020, education leaders Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey describe “simultaneous learning” as the situation in which all students in a class are learning the same content, together, but some are not physically present while others are.Those not in the classroom are generally at home on […]

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Modern Literacies: Helping Students Navigate Our Complex World

This blog is part four of a series on learning transfer. For more on teaching for transfer, see this first post, this second post and this third post.  What are you passionate about outside of the long-standing disciplines such as mathematics and science? What skills do you think […]

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Purposeful Poetry Can Help Prevent Reading Difficulties

April is National Poetry Month — but please don’t relegate poems to only one month! Rather, use them all year long to get kids excited about language and to build foundational literacy skills.   Poems can be used to teach fluency, vocabulary, phonic patterns, text structure, speaking and listening, author study, and comprehension. Most children find poems engaging and enjoy reading, writing, and presenting them. Perhaps this is due to the brevity, rhythms, and rhymes of poems, […]

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