3 Tools to Accelerate Learning for Every Student When the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) was signed by President Obama in December 2015, it represented a renewed commitment to equal opportunity for all students. Its focus was on helping disadvantaged students and low-performing schools, as well as requiring for the first time that all students…
What makes one teacher’s class a joy and another’s a torture? Were some people simply born to teach? As we remember our favorite teachers, I think we remember a je ne sais quoi, an indefinable quality, about them most. When we ask the world what makes a teacher great, the word “passionate” comes up every…
Research shows that students who are engaged in learning demonstrate greater success in school, which may in turn lead to better student attendance as well as fewer incidents of misbehavior. After thousands of classroom observations, we have witnessed many teachers lecturing for 20-30 minutes at a time, or reviewing problem after problem, and not allowing…