It comes as no surprise that one of the most challenging issues that our coaches have helped teachers with has to do with keeping students… Read More »Virtual School – The Challenge of Keeping Students Engaged
Through discussions with teachers who were finishing their first “virtual school” experience last spring, we found that regular attendance was an issue. For Ed Directions… Read More »Thoughts on Virtual School – The Problem of Attendance
Assessing the Impact – Who Needs Rituals and Routines All students benefit from rituals and routines. They support optimum cultures and climates in classrooms, build… Read More »2020 – Establishing Academic Rituals
Assessing the Impact – Who Needs Rituals and Routines All students benefit from rituals and routines. They support optimum cultures and climates in classrooms, build… Read More »Establishing Academic Rituals – Opening School in a Virtual Environment
A group of Ed Directions coaches were speculating as to the strategies schools were going to use to start school in August 2020. They were… Read More »Starting an Uncertain 2020 – 21 School Year After a Semester of Virtual School
The coronavirus put schools and teachers into an untenable position because they were forced to shut down classrooms and offer nearly a full semester of… Read More »Strategies for Meaningful Work in a Virtual School Setting
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
