Leadership
Free Resources to Help Prepare for COVID-19 and Online Teaching
We are now living in a period of unprecedented uncertainty. COVID 19—now a pandemic—has already impacted our lives in immeasurable ways. From school closures, to enforced quarantines, to the daily barrage of information and misinformation that dominates our social media, it often seems that we have little control. And yet, in the midst of
Visible Learning
Instructional Leadership: The Granny Shot of Education
As I drove the thirty-minute commute to work each day, I would prepare for those anticipated debunks – the upset parent wanting a schedule change,
How One School Pursued Greatness After Hurricane Harvey
As lifelong learners ourselves, at Lemm Elementary School we are always listening to our teachers and investigating strategies to support our teachers and student learning.
The First Rule Of Engagement
Teacher clarity is the precursor to student engagement. Professor John Hattie, author of Visible Learning, who compiled 500,000+ studies on student achievement, ranked teacher clarity
Teaching Methods
The Importance of Effective Interventions for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Teachers of K-12 students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) face a variety of challenges every day in their classrooms. Students with ASD can be some
Embedding Language and Culture to Achieve Equity in Mathematics and Science Classrooms
It is vital that teachers of multilingual learners (MLLs) help develop these learners’ primary language and academic language skills along with providing equitable access to
What is Mastery Learning?
Over the past five decades, few programs have been implemented as broadly or evaluated as thoroughly as those based on Benjamin’s Bloom’s model of mastery
