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Tackling Chronic Absenteeism

Tracking absences quarterly allows schools to spot trends and changes faster, whether they be something to celebrate or a student who needs more support. When we track the number of absences by quarter, just a few missed days in a row can trigger early intervention or celebration. [read more]

Erin Asselin, Linzi Golding, Melanie Gonzalez

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Five Steps to Student Self-Assessment

One sure way to build students’ abilities to drive their own learning is to involve them directly in the process [read more]

Randy Scherer

The Power of Student Voice — Bidwell Junior High

Bidwell Junior High School created a structure in their school to both increase student voice and decrease unwanted behaviors. [read more]

David McKay

Kim Carter on Leading Change in Battle Creek

Alec Patton talks to Dr. Kim Carter, superintendent of Battle Creek Public Schools in Michigan, about how her district broke [read more]

Alec Patton, Kim Carter

From The Current Issue

We Have All This Data, Now What?

Too often when teachers get data, they don’t know what to do with it. At the University of Chicago Middle [read more]

Jennifer Ciok, Naomi Wilfred

The Power of YES

It was the week before the exhibition at High Tech Middle Chula Vista. My eighth-grade class had spent the last [read more]

Loni Berqvist

How Schools Are Using Identity Questions to Improve Literacy

ELA teachers asked students to connect their personal and cultural identity to the academic content at key junctures in their [read more]

Jacobē Bell, Reshma Ramkellawan

How to Start Continuous Improvement Without Stopping Everything

One of the key principles of continuous improvement is that you should spend a lot of time understanding a problem [read more]

Amiee Winchester, Zack Jaffe

Issue 28: Spring 2025

May, 2025

Improvement

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Providing Wise Feedback to Students

Effective teaching involves setting high expectations for students and providing them with the necessary support to meet those expectations, fostering [read more]

Curtis Taylor, Daisy Sharrock, Mari Jones, Ruth Smith, Yekaterina Milvidskaia

Don Berwick on Improvement as Learning

Stacey Caillier interviews Don Berwick, one of the world's foremost authorities on improvement [read more]

Alec Patton, don berwick, Stacey Caillier

STEM

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Seed Dispersal Challenge

I developed a project to help students explore various seed dispersal adaptations. [read more]

Kiki Contreras

Illuminated Mathematics

Almost all of us have at some point taught something that was completely irrelevant to the... [read more]

Dave Stahnke

Education Accessibility

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Brandy Williams: Doing School for Exceptional Learners

In this episode, Alec talks to educator Brandy Williams who realized she needed to start a school where kids like [read more]

Alec Patton, Brandy Williams

Taking A Stand On Controversial Issues

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. [read more]

Mary Hendra

Arts & Literacy

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What’s the Story – an Art Project

This project was designed to develop children’s painting and drawing skills as well as ... [read more]

Lucy Williams

S01E21: How Carol Cabrera Stages Student Plays on Zoom

In this episode, Brent Spirnak interviews 9th grade humanities teacher Carol Cabrera about staging student-written “zoom plays” in quarantine. [read more]