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SEL: 3 Evidence-Based Instructional Strategies for School Leaders
We have struggled with principal and teacher retention, violence and mental health challenges, grief and loss, and other ongoing life events this school year. One thing we cannot argue is that there is a great need for support in all of these areas. The question is...

Pandemic Within A Pandemic: 3 Tips To Mitigate Learning Loss
The disruption of education worldwide as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic is undeniable. With schools being forcibly shut down, students have been left with significant gaps in their education. Students in grades K-12 are an average of 5 months behind in math and 4...

Social-Emotional Learning: Closing The Achievement Gap
The achievement gap has existed in America’s education system since the time of its inception. This can be defined as unequal or inequitable educational results among students. Although research shows the gap is ever so slowly decreasing, there is still much work to...

How to Combat the Learning Loss of the Last Two Years
Using High-Dosage Tutoring and Summer School to Address Elementary Learning Gaps The pandemic has changed the world as we know it in so many ways. Unfortunately, the vastness of its effects has yet to come to complete fruition among our youngest students, who faced...

What Are the Benefits of Social Emotional Learning (SEL)!
After two-plus years of the pandemic crisis, school closure, and disruptions that we continue to face, there is a growing debate that schools should spend their time and money on mitigating learning loss instead of social-emotional learning. The concern is that there...

Student-Centered Instructional Strategies for ESL Students
All month long, we’ve been highlighting best practices for working with English as a Second Language (ESL) students and English Language Learners (ELLs). We’ve discussed: Lesson Planning for ESL Students Differentiation for ESL Students Response to Intervention (RTI)...

How to Develop an RTI Strategy for ESL Students
This month, we’re covering all kinds of questions about working with English as a Second Language (ESL) students and English Language Learners (ELLs) on our blog. So far, we have discussed: Lesson Planning for ESL Students Differentiation for ESL Students This week,...

Differentiation Strategies for ESL Students
This month, we’re talking about how to support English as a Second Language (ESL) students and English Language Learners (ELLs)—especially if this is your first-time including ESL students in your class. Last week, we outlined some basic best practices for creating...

Lesson Planning: 3 Instructional Strategies for ESL Students
Students whose native language is something other than English are sometimes called English as a Second Language (ESL) students or English Language Learners (ELLs). If this is your first year working with one or more ESL students, you may feel overwhelmed trying to...

Get to know the 3 tiers of Response to Intervention
“Intervention” is a popular buzzword in education, but you may have heard it so many times that you’ve forgotten its true meaning and intent. Response to Intervention, also known as RTI, offers an equitable approach toward education for all students, including those...