School Improvement Strategies that WORK!
You don't need to begin from scratch to determine school improvement practices that can yield success and can also be maintained within your district's human and material resources. Ed Focus Initiative's pilot research project, "Successful and Sustainable Practices that Yield School Improvement," identified several high-yield practices or strategies that can be replicated in other districts. Read more
Will the Common Core Be Taken Down by the Grading System?
Despite the recent push by the nation's schools to adopt the Common Core standards in Math and English/Language Arts, newly-released…
Lady GaGa and Reading Guidelines for the CORE Standards?
EdFOCUS has been super-busy helping districts with the new content standards and the Common Core! The December 14 issue of…
Performance Assessments: Turn Your Classroom into a Courtroom!
In our work with teachers, we've seen them struggle with developing challenging, standards-based performance assessments that have real-world context. Teachers…
Questions, Questions, Questions
Questions help students become active participants in the process of learning. The art and science of asking questions is the source…
Don’t Teach Me With TRIGGER WORDS - Help Me Understand!
One of the biggest issues younger students face in solving math word problems is looking for “trigger” words (e.g., how…
