Quit Teaching Basics

We want our students to improve. We want scores to rise. We want to see a turnaround in achievement, but what most do not realize is most of that happens when you overhaul what Tier 1 instruction is in the classroom. I read a great quote today, “Districts and schools cannot buy or intervene their […]

So before we decide to work together and make teaching into something that offers effective and meaningful learning opportunities like never before, we have to talk about our attitude towards change. We don’t like it. We think we have things all figured out. We know that what we are doing is working just fine the

For this first blog post, I want to apologize to all of the students I “taught” over the years. You may have enjoyed my classes, you may have learned some things, you may have even stopped me later at the grocery store or at the movies and told me how much you loved my class