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Learn how to engage the disengaged learner as Dr. Douglas Reeves shares evidence based practices. Dr. Reeves builds a case using evidence of engagement, causes of disengagement, and practical solutions. Finally, he addresses envisioning a better world for students, facility, and communities.

Dr. Douglas Reeves moderates as Leslie Birden, NBCT shares how to connect literacy practices to the 3-dimensional learning - Next Generation Science Standards. She explains how to maximize anchor texts in science, and development an understanding how a foundational reading activity is used for scaffolding.

Dr. Douglas Reeves and Kim Marshall discuss positive classroom discipline. Kim provides an overview of strategies based upon research including the legendary Fred Jones. Classroom discipline can be learned, and we can all improve with minimum stress and aggravation.

WELL BEFORE the global pandemic caused a wave of school building closures and consequent learning losses, teachers complained there were too many standards for student learning. The problem was that, however well-intentioned and thoughtfully designed, state standards all su!er from the same faulty assumption: Students need only one year of learning. That assumption always has been questionable, but after students in 2020 lost at least six months of learning (and many would argue they lost more), teachers in 2021 are facing students who may be two years or more behind their current grade level. The idea of teaching and assessing three years of learning in a single year is preposterous. Fortunately, some practical solutions are available.

Dealing with Toxic Threats to Emotional Health

It’s the worst I’ve seen in more than 30 years,” said one superintendent

The subject of this column is “decision-based data-making.” This is not a misprint.

“I knew he was a special boyfriend,” explained my mother, “because he gave me an extravagant gift for my high school graduation.”

The politically correct blood sport among educational commentators these days is the jeremiad against the evils of academic standards and testing.

or a ten-year-old, Amartya is a thoughtful chap. One Monday morning at the Khan Lab School (KLS) in Mountain View, California, he explains that his maths is “pretty strong” but he needs to work on his writing.

Learn how academics and the arts support each other.

Leaders set priorities. With multiple demands on limited school resources and classroom time, an essential job of every school leader is allocating resources to produce the greatest student success.

Several weeks ago, I traveled to rural Zambia to dedicate a school that (1) my colleagues and I had built there.

As this issue of Educational Leadership makes clear, teacher leadership is a concept that extends far beyond a slogan and has become an integral part of education reform.

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