An end-of-year love letter to public schoolsThanks for reading, commenting, and offering your feedback on these emails this school year.Jun 13Jun 13
Talking past each otherIt’s not easy to surface underlying assumptions, but taking that extra step can lead to better long-term work.Apr 30Apr 30
AI’s potential to brighten the future of instructionI spent the past year learning about classroom-based AI tools — and was surprised and delighted by what I saw.Mar 25A response icon1Mar 25A response icon1
A bold state move to improve readingThere is one move that Mississippi leaders made that I have not seen any other states implement.Mar 25Mar 25
The power of empathyI have been blown away by research that offers empirical evidence of the power of human empathy.Dec 4, 2024Dec 4, 2024
The challenges of unaligned languageI’ve been thinking a lot about the words we use in education: how often we’re not on the same page and how challenging it is.Oct 10, 2024Oct 10, 2024
The value proposition of high-quality instructional materials is different than I thought it was.As another school year begins, I have been struck by the many different ways leaders and educators talk about instructional materials.Sep 10, 2024Sep 10, 2024
Instructional hopes and fears with the end of ESSERI have three worries about the way the end of ESSER may play out for instruction—and hopes for how leaders might work against them.Jun 24, 2024Jun 24, 2024
How thrilling it is to learn new thingsIn the face of a powerful personal learning experience, I find it hard to be cynical about our capacity to learn new things.Apr 29, 2024Apr 29, 2024
We know more about how to improve math outcomes than current policy debates suggestworry that the policy debates I am watching seem to have forgotten that we know a lot about what to do to improve math outcomes.Apr 18, 2024Apr 18, 2024