A father was taking his two middle-school-aged sons out scouting for deer in the fall. By profession the father was a logger in Northern Oregon. On their drive into the woods, the father received a phone call and was asked to drive by his company’s logging site to check on a controlled fire that was
My colleague recently attended a meeting of school officials from around the state discussing approaches to solving problems in schools suffering the greatest academic distress. Lots of ideas were shared, considered, and dismissed. Consensus came when a superintendent stood up and pitched a program his former district had employed. At no point during the superintendent’s
For years we surveyed teachers and parents about how organized their schools’ principals were, and these data provided little clarity on how principal organization related to school outcomes. In a study conducted by Rich Moore (2007), he found that even superintendents’ impression of principal organization was unrelated to important school outcomes. This would suggest that
Fall is the time of year where data describing achievements of the prior school year are made public and available for analyses. One of the many research projects we conduct annually is a complete evaluation of each item we employ in our data collection tools. The focus of this evaluation is two-fold: first, to determine
With an increased emphasis on collaborative teaming in schools, there has been a subsequent spread in the adoption of common formative assessments, or CFAs for short. CFAs provide teachers who are covering the same curricular standards to assess idea comprehension or skill acquisition close on the heels of instruction. These assessments provide collaborative teams with