This 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…

This 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…

This 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…

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. …

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…

This 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…

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…

This 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…

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…