“Data-driven” instruction makes sense only if the data that’s driving it makes sense. And much of the data used to guide reading instruction doesn’t. Throughout the school year, classrooms across the ...

Annual goals lose focus by March. Weekly goals lack strategic weight. Quarterly goals sit in the middle: long enough to accomplish something real, short enough to maintain urgency.

My grandmother's copy of The Odyssey. Source: Nancy K. Napier With so much talk about loneliness, with causes ranging from the pandemic to social media, I've been reading and thinking about it more.