Okay, here's a thing we can all do. The City Council is struggling with how to defund or reorient the MPD. Yesterday they passed an eme...

Hi there, I had an article on deck, but this is not the time. Instead, please find something in this list of links and make a difference...

We're ending the school year with more of a whimper than a bang. A lot of us are relieved: distance learning is over! We can get on wit...

Since the COVID hit, I've been focused on emerging and younger struggling readers; this post is for them, middle and high school readers...

Okay, you're working on reading with your kid(s). You're patient with the phonics, tenacious with the syllabification, rolling with thei...

Goals are great. They help you map where you want to go, are heading, or if you're working with a developing reader of any age, the plac...

Rumors of standardized tests' death have been greatly exaggerated. This week the College Board cancelled all tests through June, but is...

There are a million blogs out there telling you what you can/should/could do right now. And yes, I'm piling on with one ask - wait, don'...

Hey there. Things are feeling very upside down, or maybe completely out of control, or maybe mostly normal, except there is no normal now...

So, that week turned in to a month, plus - my apologies. I laid out spaced repetition study details in my last post, noting it's the best...

Christmas has come and gone, and the countdown to semester exams is on!  So, what's a student on a two-week break to do?  First, you have...

Happy Friday, everyone! Mary Oliver is much on my mind this morning, as DC's Mayor is proposing to do away with our city's poet laureate...