A Better Path to Learning

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  • Catching Up Our Kids

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    A group of American Enterprise Institutute’s researchers recently released the Return to Learn Tracker, a way for traditional districts to estimate the level of student learning loss in their schools. According to The 74, “Back when districts wrote their ESSER plans (the federal government’s COVID relief initiative,) most didn’t have the information we have today.…

  • Education Reimagined & The Big Idea

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    I noticed Education Reimagined, a Washington D.C.-based group committed to a different learning system for our young people, released a new resource titled The Big Idea. According to ER, “The Big Idea is designed to spark new conversations and inspire people to imagine a world of thriving learner-centered ecosystems. We are eager to grow the…

  • School Principals Need to Go

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    I enjoyed being a school principal. I was a middle school principal and opened a brand new high school as their first principal. I enjoyed playing the role of the school’s instructional leader, even though many of my counterparts delegated teaching and learning to others. But maybe it’s time to close the school principal position,…

  • Friday News Roundup

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    It’s Friday! Time for the Roundup. Let’s get to it. ‘The World Feels Less Stable’: Educators’ Sense of School Safety Right Now (EducationWeek) “Four in 10 educators feel less safe in their schools now than they did five years ago, according to a new survey by the EdWeek Research Center. School shootings factor heavily into…

  • The Tattle Phone

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    I’m a big fan of Ira Glass and This American Life. It is one of the best radio shows/podcasts available these days. If you haven’t listened, I encourage you to do so. A few weeks ago, the show focused on fairness. I’ll spare you the details of the entire program. What I want to focus…

  • When Did 70% Become Acceptable?

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    When I worked in public education, it was amazing to me how much all of us fell in love with the “70.” Under the Texas accountability at the time, if you got 70 percent of you kids to pass the state’s high-stakes test in either reading, writing, or math, you were considered a “recognized” campus.…

  • The Unfair Practice Called Grading

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    High school graduation season, for the most part, has come and gone. Graduates are getting ready to prepare for college or possibly the work force. Seniors have been recognized for their academic achievement by being named cum laude, magna cum laude, or summa cum laude. Valedictorians and salutatorians have given their speeches congratulating their fellow…

  • Math, Science, and Social Studies are All About Problem-Solving

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    Here’s a Best of the Best article originally published for The Education Game back in 2021. What happens to the world if COVID-19 doesn’t disappear for the next 50 years? How does the human race survive climate change? What happens to America and the world if more governments become less democratic and more become autocratic?…

  • Friday News Roundup…

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    Here’s the Friday News Roundup for June 17, 2022 Advice for Principals: Empower Your Teachers (Education Week) “The best thing principals can do to support their teachers is to empower them to teach. Yes, of course, it is also important to provide systems, professional development, and to be a strong leader. But what good is…

  • Relationships Matter…They Matter A Lot

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    Here’s another Best of the Best from the archives. I wrote this article for The Education Game back in 2021. Hope you enjoy it. Traditional schools struggle establishing relationships within academic settings. Most schools begin their relationship-building by the teacher receiving a student roster telling them who is assigned to each of their teaching periods,…