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Grade Levels?
Maybe it’s time that we abandoned the notion that grade levels should be used as measures of growth. We use a term like below-level to determine that a child…
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Bright Spots
While we have focused a great deal on the problems that arose out of emergency remote learning, we still struggle with how we are going to serve our learners…
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What If Wednesday #1
Asking What If questions can be a powerful tool to lead toward thinking critically about the problems that we face in education. Asking What If questions can help us…
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Unrecognizable
We will need to think critically about how we provide supports for students in September. School will not look the same and it shouldn’t. We will need to find…
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Intervention as Intervention
For many of our struggling learners, we often provide as many interventions as possible. The word intervention can be used to cover any number of strategies, prescribed, scripted programs,…
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Joy is an Intervention
#4OCF is taking a Summer Vacation for two weeks! But don't worry, we'll be sharing some of our favorite posts during this time. Trevor is up this week with…
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Take A Number
The lunch meat counter used to be simple. Step up, take a number, and wait your turn. All you have to do is remember to return to pick it up…
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Joy is an Intervention
It’s such a simple phrase but I find it so powerful. Joy is an intervention. It’s so freeing. My friend, Dr. Mary Howard, wrote these words in a facebook…
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Data Alone
Data alone does not lead to improved learning outcomes for students. While data can be helpful in determining what direction to take with a certain student, the data must…