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5 Tips to Mitigate Learning Loss for Dyslexic Students
The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented challenges for children and families, particularly those who suffer from learning disabilities. One group, in particular, children with dyslexia, has struggled with the changes to schooling and the learning loss that...
5 Evidence-Based Strategies to Mitigate Learning Loss
When schools reopened in the fall of 2021, we were all optimistic about being able to provide uninterrupted classroom instruction. We all thought that the next step would be to administer pre-assessments to plan instruction to mitigate learning loss. Unfortunately,...
How To Engage Parents To Support Literacy Instruction
I am sure you have heard some version of this question from school leaders, teachers, and parents, “What is going to be done to address the loss of instruction to mitigate learning loss?” The pandemic has added a new layer of complexities, making this question...
Struggling Readers: 4 Reciprocal Teaching Strategies
Learning Loss During COVID-19 With the ongoing coronavirus numbers, districts, and schools there is a lot of uncertainty about whether they will have to pivot to virtual or hybrid learning for the remainder of this school year. The research is clear about the impact...
6 Strategies That Will Increase High School Graduation Rates
About 25% of high school students in the U.S drop out before their graduation day and in lower-income communities, the number of high schools dropouts is even higher as many of the students don’t have enough support or resources to finish all four years. Most students...
Literacy Learning Loss: Evidence-Based Strategies That Work!
Morphemes, prosody, phonological awareness… you’re not alone if an elementary ELA lesson feels a bit more like rocket science. If it were easier, our society might not face such enormous inequities in literacy. However, research shows that reading disparities can be...
5 Strategies for Equitable, And Inclusive Classrooms!
In recent years, educators have been using data to inform courageous conversations about equity and inclusion to create school environments that work for staff, students, and families. And it’s a good thing, too! Students with disabilities may have an IEP, but that...
Make Faculty Meetings More Productive: 8 Tips for Principals
Faculty meetings are notoriously known as the place where good ideas are lost and buried in a lot of other things that should have been sent in an email, but this does not have to be the case for your school! The time you have with the teachers at your school is...
What Should School Leaders Do To Prevent Bullying (With Examples)
Would you believe that every day a child is suffering in a school because they are being bullied? Most schools discuss bullying at the beginning of each school year, and some schools invest in posters to reinforce school-wide behavioral expectations. For so long,...
What Should School Leaders Do to Support Students with Invisible Disabilities
Education has transformed over time and for the better. What was once a teacher-centered, authoritarian classroom has become a student-centered space where educators focus on academic, behavioral, social, and emotional skill development. Instead of focusing solely on...