Community Schools: Achieving Whole-School Equity

As US educators struggle with how to achieve equity for all students, full-service community schools continue to rise to the top of solutions that demonstrate evidence of breaking the barrier to achievement. The Coalition for Community Schools estimated in 2018 that there are more than 5,000 community schools. The impetus to grow the number

By |2022-09-02T00:28:57+00:00October 27th, 2021|Education Reform|0 Comments

No Child Left Behind Act: The 2001 Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act

Background: Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) To understand No Child Left Behind (NCLB), it’s necessary to quickly review its history as a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) signed into law in 1965 by President Lyndon B. Johnson. ESEA was a significant part of President Johnson’s War on Poverty

By |2022-09-02T00:52:06+00:00October 25th, 2021|Education Reform|0 Comments

5 Easy Tips to Support & Retain New Teachers

44%+ teachers leave education within their first five years (Council of Exceptional Children [CEC], 2021). What can you do to make them want to stay? Here are 5 easy tips on how to support and retain your new teachers this school year. Tip 1: Welcome the innovation your new teachers bring. Yes,

By |2022-09-22T00:36:31+00:00October 5th, 2021|Education Reform|0 Comments

Special Education Focus – The Time is Now!

As I travel the country and meet with special educators, a few themes always arise. The more often I meet with these men and women, the more my heart breaks. The locations differ, but the story never changes. Special educators are tired, overwhelmed, overworked, under-appreciated, under-supported, fearful to speak up, and quite often

By |2022-09-02T01:12:56+00:00February 17th, 2021|Special Education|0 Comments

Special Educators: It’s Time to be Proactive with Compensatory Education and ESY

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted nearly every facet of the educational enterprise.  Arguably, the most negatively affected are those who are most vulnerable: special education students.  It has been widely reported that the shuttering of many schools in the spring and fall of 2020 has likely harmed students’ academic performance significantly.  In special

By |2022-09-02T01:14:39+00:00February 10th, 2021|Special Education|0 Comments

The Power of Positive Emotion in Personalized Learning

Numerous research studies have shown that emotion plays a critical role in learning. Fortunately, this is intuitive: negative emotions often hurt a child’s ability to learn while positive emotions generally help. This is true in all types of learning, whether in person or online. And it has been validated that online learning in

By |2022-09-02T01:20:39+00:00July 1st, 2020|Education Reform|0 Comments

The History of LetsGoLearn

Let’s Go Learn began as an effort to bring an academic reading model to the digital age. With the World Wide Web reaching mass market in the late 1990s, Dr. Richard McCallum of UC Berkeley took his reading and literacy development program and partnered with technologist Richard Capone to create a web version

By |2022-09-08T20:22:07+00:00April 9th, 2020|Education Reform|0 Comments
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