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If you really care about SEL, make the switch to mastery learning.

February 6, 2022

The recent focus on students’ social-emotional development is well-placed. While this was a hot topic before the pandemic, the need for SEL support has been magnified over the past...

Navigating Leadership #53: Mastery-Based Learning with Dr. Lori McEwen

February 6, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj16cazImwA

What is Deep and Joyful Learning?

March 11, 2021

I believe that ALL students can and should learn deeply and joyfully every single day. (I also believe that everyone should find great joy--daily--in their work, but that's for another...

Three ways to invite parents inside the black box of education - Lori McEwen Educational Consultant

3 ways to invite parents inside the black box of education

November 16, 2020

In 2013, Cuban and Tyack wrote Inside the Black Box of Classroom Practice: Change without Reform in American Education. In the book, they assert that even significant educational policy changes...

How to make your district’s portrait of a graduate even better

October 19, 2020

Whether it’s called a portrait, profile, or vision, districts across the country are collaboratively creating an aspirational model of their graduate. What is a Portrait of a Graduate? While...

3 Good Reasons for Principals to be in Classrooms Right Now

October 6, 2020

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post on how principals might conduct evaluations right now. I wrote it in response to questions I had seen on the internet, took...