6 days agoLet’s stop asking leaders to be superheroes.This post is adapted from an email originally shared on May 6, 2022. If you would like to receive future emails, you can sign up here. I’ve been struck recently by how often educators are called superheroes. My boys are all about superheroes right now. My oldest has planned his…Education4 min read
Apr 22Finding lightness by stepping into silenceThis post is adapted from an email originally shared on April 15, 2022. If you would like to receive future emails, you can sign up here. I turn 40 in a few weeks. Between some signs of a mid-life crisis, lingering social confusion after pandemic isolation, and utter fatigue with…Education4 min read
Mar 29Leveraging the full potential of tiered intervention systems can support recovery and redesignThis post is adapted from an email originally shared on March 25, 2022. If you would like to receive future emails, you can sign up here. Tutoring is getting a lot of attention right now. It has received a great deal of resourcing with ESSER funds across states and districts…Education4 min read
Mar 16Leveraging the full potential of tiered intervention systems can support recovery and redesignThis post is adapted from an email originally shared on March 11, 2022. If you would like to receive future emails, you can sign up here. Students and educators have a broad range of needs, and actors across the education ecosystem are looking for ways to meet those needs. Policymakers…School Intervention4 min read
Feb 22We know how to teach every child to read (part III of III)This post is adapted from an email originally shared on February 18, 2022. If you would like to receive future emails, you can sign up here. Learning to read English is essential to achievement in every academic subject — and to opportunities beyond schooling. …Literacy4 min read
Feb 22We know how to teach every child to read (part II of III)This post is adapted from an email originally shared on February 4, 2022. If you would like to receive future emails, you can sign up here. In a nation starkly divided in our opinions about and sense of risk from COVID, citizens and families agree on one thing: we are…Literacy2 min read
Jan 18Recovery is a journeyThis post is adapted from an email originally shared on January 14, 2022. If you would like to receive future emails, you can sign up here. A belated happy new year! 2022 is not pulling any punches. Last summer, we all had high hopes for the learning recovery and student…Education2 min read
Dec 13, 2021We know how to teach every child to read (part I of III)This post is adapted from an email originally shared on December 10, 2021. If you would like to receive future emails, you can sign up here. Though many issues in education are hard to solve right now, there is one urgent need that we can agree feels clear, critical, and…Literacy5 min read
Dec 1, 2021Grace and leadershipThis post is adapted from an email originally shared on November 22, 2021. If you would like to receive future emails, you can sign up here. This week I learned that the word gratitude is derived from the word gratia, meaning grace. I had never before connected expressions of thankfulness…Leadership3 min read
Nov 3, 2021How do we think about goals for student learning in this context?This post is adapted from an email originally shared on October 29, 2021. If you would like to receive future emails, you can sign up here. In recent conversations, I hear leaders wrestling with how to set goals. A special education leader recently told me this: “Before COVID, we only…Education4 min read