Evaluating Your Summer
Ed Directions’ coaches emphasize that the summer planning activities should enable schools — leaders, teachers, and students — to come to school prepared to have… Read More »Evaluating Your Summer
Ed Directions’ coaches emphasize that the summer planning activities should enable schools — leaders, teachers, and students — to come to school prepared to have… Read More »Evaluating Your Summer
There can be many umbrella terms under the same standard. In this same standard, different genres are mentioned. Analysis of test items identified several genres… Read More »Genre Self Assessment – Umbrella Terms
Last week I had a chance to talk with a school principal about his school improvement plan. His leadership team had just read the schools… Read More »Using state test scores to mine data for your SIP
Educational Directions is a consulting company that works with states, school districts, and individual schools to support student growth as learner and student growth as… Read More »Thoughts on the Equity issue and school improvement mandates
A core component of Educational Directions is the “Rhythm of the Learner Year” – ROLY. This approach emphasizes that proficient performance by all students requires… Read More »The Calibrating Period – The January/February Conundrum
During the Opening of School and the Formative Period of the Learner Year, teachers focused on preparing students with the minimum competencies needed for success… Read More »December Imperatives for Teachers – Preparing for the Calibrating Period
From the start of school through December, the focus for academic leaders has been the development of proficient learners. Ed Directions coaches emphasize that during… Read More »December Imperatives for Academic Leaders – Preparing for the Calibrating Period
Once the school leadership team has completed the data mining and goal setting parts of academic leadership, their tasks expanded to include planning for the… Read More »The Academic Leadership Year – Part 7
Years ago, teachers used to talk about the “big” learning months – September, October, January, February, and March – because these months offered large blocks… Read More »The October Imperative – The Academic Leader
The Academic Leadership Year – The July Period (Part Six) If leadership has done adequate pre-planning and provided teachers with time to collect and organize… Read More »The Academic Leadership Year – Part 6