by dwalker | Nov 19, 2010 | Blog
My last post, Achieving School Turnaround, presented an overview of the four IES categories of research recommendations for achieving school turnaround (see IES Practice Guide: Turning Around Chronically Low Performing Schools 2009). The first recommendation sends a...
by dwalker | Oct 12, 2010 | Blog
Over the years I’ve seen repeated calls for school reform, closing gaps, and raising achievement. Each time the calls for reform seem more urgent, acknowledging that despite our best efforts, too many students are failing to meet standards. For persistently...
by Amy Awbrey Pallangyo | Jul 9, 2010 | Blog
The research has been out there for 20+ years now. We know what high performing schools have that others do not – highly skilled and professional teachers, current resources and technologies, involved families, and exceptional instructional leadership. We can...
by admin | Jun 25, 2010 | Blog
In my blog post of May 28th I shared an interview I had with a colleague who was just completing four years of work as a school-based literacy coach in a combined middle and high school. In this conversation we discussed her experiences as a coach and discussed the...
by rodaniel | Jun 11, 2010 | Blog
The new framework for national standards has arrived, and it is a powerful document. The committee garnered a lot of feedback from the mathematics education community and created a set of standards that did exactly what it set out to do; lessen the number of standards...
