Memo 1127
- What rowing can tell us about school improvement
- How some beat-the-odds schools sustain their success
- Teaching early reading as a “reciprocal cycle”
- Unchecked technology has failed us; we need relational intelligence
- What happens when a student’s phone buzzes
- What “warm demanders” do
- How teachers can work within today’s curriculum constraints
- A video with seven insights on teaching and learning
Memo 1126
- What technology can do and what human teachers must do
- Leaders with the qualities of good followers
- Effective schools that sustain success over time
- Following up when formative assessments reveal student confusion
- Should teachers simplify math vocabulary for students?
- Does AI translation mean we don’t need to learn other languages?
- At what level does student absenteeism become problematic?
- When a leader should hit the pause button
- Fun math activities for students and their families
- Recommended young adult Indigenous literature
- Short item: An AI spoof on historical figures in hum-drum modern situations
Memo 1125
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- Intervention – how to make it count
- Differentiating with GenAI
- Rethinking one-to-one paraprofessional support of students
- English learners (ELs) and career and technical education (CTE)
- Math coaching for teachers isn’t optional, it’s foundational
- Broadening students’ idea of what it means to be good at science
- What is the best size for student groups?
- Why is class size a relatively weak factor in student achievement?
- Why tutoring wasn’t effective in Nashville
- How to improve meetings
- Recommended children’s picture books
Memo 1124
- Seven principles for teaching and learning
- Can the boy-girl reading gap be closed?
- The troubling impact of GenAI on young people’s social skills
- A college English teacher goes full low-tech
- Bronx and Brooklyn teachers experiment with an AI platform
- Suggestions for talking with parents and guardians about homework
- The epidemic of online teen gambling
- A different take on daily leadership huddles
- A book about U.S. curriculum culture wars
- When faced with a tough dilemma, dial some friends
- Short item: Free classroom videos and lesson plans


