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Instructional design impacts teacher success

This research shows the impact of using the Essential Skill Inventories on teacher perception of success, including knowing their students, responding to the individual needs of students, relationships with students, […]
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Early Learning Success: Done Right

For decades, American schools have been engaged in a failed experiment, attempting to cram more content into a typical teaching day than humanly possible, asking children to learn overwhelming content […]
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Tips for Helping Your Child Have a Successful School Year

Learning matters.  More than at any time in history, children with good learning skills and work habits will have incredible opportunities to succeed.  But children with poor learning skills and […]
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Creating a Gargantuan Pool of Low Skill Workers in America

Creating a Gargantuan Pool of Low Skill Workers in America   If you wanted to create a system that limits educational options and consigns the vast majority of poor American […]
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The Secret to Classroom Management

 There is a secret to classroom management. You won’t find it in most of the books on classroom discipline or the endless lists of classroom management tips. Here is a […]
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83% Out of Luck

83% Out of Luck   Is it possible that a rural school serving poor families in the middle of Mississippi is changing the way we look at curriculum and instruction in […]
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Competency Based Learning: The Time is Now

Please check out my interview in Education News, and share with your colleagues. http://www.educationviews.org/bob-sornson-competency-based-learning/ An Interview with Bob Sornson: Competency Based Learning Michael F. Shaughnessy Bob, aren’t our schools already focused […]
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Our Commitment to Early Childhood Learning Success

It is predictable. Our commitment to early childhood learning success will continue to produce mediocre results. Despite a greater awareness of the importance of early learning success, we still offer […]
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Who’s Looking Out for the Children?

Bob Sornson We live in a time of incredible opportunity, with exponential increases in information, technology, and opportunities to share and connect.  It is a time of possibility, in which […]
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The Core of the Core

We’ve lost focus. For the past few decades we have consistently added to our lists of grade level content expectations, mistakenly giving the message to teachers that covering more is […]
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