Recently I had an opportunity to attend a training on new tools that have been developed that will provide additional data to schools...

Not long ago I attended an education conference. As I was waiting for the morning program to begin I became engaged in conversation with...

For the past two years I have been transitioning from being a runner to being a runner and cyclist. My transition has been slowed by the...

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Last week, I wrote about the importance of effective lesson planning because of known physiological constraints that affect how much a...

“My students do Close Reading every day at the start of the day. It has really been a great routine for my class”. In a room full of...

“Checking for Understanding” has become a misunderstood educational catch phrase. The one thing that can be agreed upon is that “CFU” is...

Do you have a favorite TV show? Downton Abby? Breaking Bad? The Wire? What all these shows have in common is the serial telling of a...

As all new attempts at curriculum reform, the Common Core has generated its’ share of criticism. Looking back at Whole Language, New...

This is the second installment in the series, What are we doing to ourselves? Over the past several weeks parents, college educated...

Let me tell you how this latest educational movie, “Effective Instruction in the Common Core,” ends. The movie ends with a predictable...

A continuation of The Research Supporting TESS (part 1) The second great influence on the development of what we now know as direct...

Often, when doing teacher training in direct instruction, we are asked about the research behind the model. It is an honest question...