Education

Shining More Light on College Sports

College sports is going through a tumultuous transition these days. Between the accelerated pace of “power” conference consolidation and the ongoing questions around NIL and student-athlete financial consideration, there has likely never been so many questions…

Watching the Education Divide Widen

This Forbes piece by Jeanne Allen, Founder and CEO of the Center for Education Reform (CER) wasn’t the feel good Monday morning article I was looking for. Then again, a sobering reminder of what’s happening in our education system is something we should all be paying…

Helping Students With Learning Differences

All students have struggled post the March 2020 Covid school shutdown, but no cohort has perhaps struggled more than those students with learning differences.

Chronic Absenteeism is Up in California

Here we are less than two months into the new school year in California, and the lead story is chronic absenteeism, not learning and student success. This EdSource article flags the many reasons — Covid quarantines, Covid concerns, and “…general disengagement…

Student SEL is More Important Than Ever

It shouldn’t come as a big surprise that students across the K12 spectrum are stressed and increasingly carrying the effects of what the last 18 months of school has felt like. This recent study thankfully highlights that awareness amongst educators for social…

As Education Evolves, Access to Sports Must Remain a Priority

The 2020–21 school year will go down as the year of no sports for many youth athletes. Player “bios” will be represented as just a big white space this year, perhaps memorialized with the simple line: “No Season — COVID-19…

Optimizing An Education Organization’s Technology Stack

How Communication Drives Equity, Relationships, and Engagement

Another week goes by and with it comes yet another call out of the widening learning gap afflicting so many students and families. Last week I sketched out five core elements of a “Equitable Access to Education Playbook”…

Creating the “Equitable Access to Education Playbook”: How We Can Close the Widening Learning Gap

The learning gap continues to widen at a rate faster than we can fully quantify. Indeed, as a recent Bloomberg article states: “Our affluent parents, they’ve got…

Challenges to Reopening Our Schools

“It should be a national priority to get our kids back into school and keep them in school.” — Joe Biden