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Happy New Year!  The traditional greeting can sound trite given the year most of us have had. Still, the greeting carries within it the seeds of hope that the new year will be better, so I’m sticking with it.  I wanted to take a moment to give you a motto that circulated decades ago that can…

Do you remember the phrase, “My way or the highway.” Popularized sometime in the 70’s, it has morphed, spread, and seems to characterize all of life now. The “us vs them” way of looking at things along with the accompanying lack of civility and vitriol in public discourse seems to be here to stay. With…

In my last article, I explained the first category of questions your student will need to be able to answer in the reading section of an achievement test. These questions are fact or knowledge based. Being able to “know” and parrot back a piece of information is a “first step” kind of question. The  utility and value…

Now that we’ve reached the end of the second week of January, how are your New Year’s Resolutions going? Doing OK? Not so good?  If you’re one who has stepped up to the challenge, here are seven suggestions that will tip the scales in favor of you continuing and succeeding.  I’ve adapted the suggestions from one of…

Last week, I suggested that based on your child’s achievement test report, it might be time to change up the curriculum you’re using.  If you liked my suggestion and plan to do this, it’s likely that sometime in the first month of new school year you’ll be second guessing yourself about your new purchase. Here’s…

Remove! This is an informed and thoughtful call to action. First, what it’s not. It’s not simply a call to restrict the individual use of digital media. It’s not a call to more self-discipline.  It’s not a call to simply go back to using a flip phone. It’s not a call to set a limit…