Three key ways that your school district can respond to and improve summer learning in low performing students.

When the Ed Directions coaches started discussing the impact of the coronavirus on schools, one of our first concerns was how moving to virtual learning… Read More »Three key ways that your school district can respond to and improve summer learning in low performing students.

The NASSP report on principal retention addressed one of the major barriers to ongoing school improvement – the problem of retaining effective principals in place.… Read More »We Read the NASSP Report: Supporting A Strong, Stable Principal Workforce, and Here’s What We Have to Add

For the past 20 years, the coaches and leaders at Ed Directions have had the opportunity to review school testing plans and have found that most schools… Read More »Testing Period Success – Part 1 – School Achievement Through the Rhythm of the Learner Year

In a recent community forum the focus of the discussion was school violence. The audience was enthusiastic and involved, but the discussion varied from speaker… Read More »Planning to Prevent School Violence

Frank DeSensi | Founder/CIOEducational Directions I will admit that as an assistant principal, I did not consider the academic potential for learners when I planned… Read More »After the Test – What Do We Do With the Rest of The Year?

When we started working with schools as an external change agent, we immediately noticed a problem with school calendars. In a nutshell, most of the… Read More »The Rhythm of the Learner Year: Opening of School

A revelation came at a school where it appeared that very few students understood science. In the process of probing beyond raw scores, we again… Read More »Another Lesson Learned – Probing Beyond Raw Test Scores

During the early years of our company, we worked with several middle schools. Their data indicated social studies students were consistently scoring low in the… Read More »Is Knowing The Test Answer Enough? Another Lesson Learned From Years Of Academic Partnerships

The answer – no. Not in all cases. The first issue that caused us to rethink our approach to using test scores to drive change… Read More »Turnaround School Test Results – Does Last Year’s Data Truly Represent This Years Student Population?

Our book Turning Around Turnaround Schools is intended for those who work in or with turnaround schools, though the approach to education presented works with… Read More »High Stakes Testing Conundrum – Turnaround Programs