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Science of reading, MTSS, leadership, and special education insights from Dr. Chandra Williams and the CSAS team: the same thinking our partner schools get, published for everyone. Learn, grow, and take your system to the next level.
Dyslexia Isn’t Rare in Schools
Why Students Are Still Being Missed—and What Schools Must Do Now There is one truth schools across the country need to face more honestly: Dyslexia is not rare. It is just routinely missed, misunderstood, or mismanaged. And that matters—because every year a child’s...
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Let’s Talk About Your Concerns About Reopen Schools
School leaders, what’s keeping you up at night as we approach the 2020-2021 school year? Lately, we’ve seen so much debate about whether districts should reopen completely with...
How to Build a “Back to School Toolkit” for Parents (Part 2 of 2)
Last week, we shared a high level overview of how data should guide your school to excellence through the following steps: Develop a clear vision. Identify high priority, measurable...
How to Build a “Back to School Toolkit” for Parents (Part 1 of 2)
In a normal school year, writing a back-to-school letter for parents can be pretty straightforward. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to reimagine the 2020-2021 school...
Why Do Schools Need to Hire a Racially Diverse Teaching Staff?
As part of the recent “Black Lives Matter at School” movement, we’ve seen many opinion pieces published about why various educators believe schools need better representation of...
How and When Your Schools Should Reopen: 4 Evidence-Based Recommendations
As school leaders, we’ve been given unclear, and often conflicting, guidance from experts about how and when schools can reopen through a strategy which keeps our students, teachers,...
Blended Learning in the 2020-2021 School Year: How to Measure Student Mastery of Virtual Content
As our country continues to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, school leaders recognize that the 2020-2021 school year must involve some sort of a blended learning strategy. Last...
What COVID-19 Taught Us About Students and Digital Learning
It’s no secret that COVID-19 caught us all off guard and left most school leaders without a robust digital learning strategy when schools needed to close this spring. Although some...
How to Include Blended Learning in Your School’s Professional Development Plan
Last week, we published an article about the developing national discussion about blended learning, and how blended learning can be incorporated into your 2020-2021 curriculum....
Black Lives Matter: How Exclusionary Discipline Harms Black and Brown Students (Plus Some Solutions!)
Black lives matter, and not just when Black people become adults. Currently, the public eye is very focused on police brutality against Black adults, but as school leaders, we must...
How to Plan for the 2020-2021 School Year: Should We “Reimagine Education”?
When the coronavirus crisis made its way into our communities in late February/early March this year, most school systems were not prepared with a crisis plan to transition from...
4 Ways to Empower Parents to Support Students Literacy Skills at Home
Although many schools are able to host some sort of digital learning sessions for students during COVID-19 related school closures, parents are increasingly taking on the role of...
What Can Parents Do to Inspire a Love of Learning During Spring and Summer 2020?
As we draw closer to the end of the 2019-2020 school year, you may feel anxious about how to support parents leading up to the summer break. Many parents have felt the need to...
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