Writing
Thinking out loud about psychology, education, policy, healthcare, and whatever else has my attention.
Exclusionary discipline practices disproportionately affect students of color and students with disabilities. Evidence points toward more effective and equitable alternatives.
Assessment should illuminate what students understand and can do. Most conventional testing does neither, and we have better tools available.
Singlediscipline education optimizes for depth. But the most consequential problems, in health, policy, technology, and society, demand people who can think across boundaries.
Reading is the gateway skill for virtually all academic learning. Research on how children develop literacy and what instruction works best is unusually clear by educational research standards.
Navigating information environments is now a foundational skill. Education systems that treat digital literacy as supplemental are leaving students unprepared for the information landscape they inhabit.
Mastery based learning holds that students advance when they demonstrate competency, not when the calendar says so. The idea is compelling; the implementation is complicated.
Community schools integrate health, social services, and family engagement into the school building itself, addressing barriers to learning that classroom instruction alone cannot reach.
Being the first in your family to attend college is not just a logistical challenge. It is a cultural one, and institutions that ignore the cultural dimension fail the students who most need support.
Principals are the second most important in-school influence on student achievement after teachers. Research on what makes school leaders effective has grown significantly.
