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K-12 Momentum: June/July 2022
Dear Friends, This past weekend, I visited my 94-year-old former high school English teacher in Oshkosh, Wisconsin (my hometown). Mrs. “V,” as she was known to her students, worked tirelessly…
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Postsecondary Success – Crossroads
Colleagues,It’s graduation season, and like many of you, I am often transported back to my own cap-and-gown days, remembering the excitement of being done with studying and tests mixed with…
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K-12 Momentum: May 2022
Dear Friends, I’m sending you all love and strength coming off an excruciating couple of weeks. Our hearts are broken from the senseless and horrific crimes we saw in Buffalo…
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K-12 Momentum: April 2022
Dear Friends, 1,800. It felt so good to be “back on track” with 1,800 educators at the Carnegie Foundation Summit on Improvement in Education last month in San Diego. For…
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Postsecondary Success | Crossroads
Colleagues, I recently had the opportunity to spend a quick 36 hours at SXSWEdu and it was great to be back on the road and talking with people in the…
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K-12 Momentum: March 2022
Dear Friends, I’m learning a lot about math lately, something my 4th grade teacher would be amused by! That year I was 110 pages behind by December break. And today, more…
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Postsecondary Success Notes | Slow and steady wins the race
Colleagues, Like many of you, I recently spent some time watching the Winter Olympics, especially some of the big medal-grabbing moments from athletes like figure skater Nathan Chen and bobsledder Elana…
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K-12 Momentum: February 2022
Dear Friends, As we start the process of rebuilding, new research from Zearn adds insight to the urgent need to address unfinished learning stemming from the pandemic. Zearn (study) tracked…
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Postsecondary Success | College should not be a maze to navigate
Colleagues, We’re coming up on tax season, when many of us find ourselves gathering bundles of information, navigating often confusing paperwork and instructions, all with tight deadlines and high stakes.…
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K-12 Momentum: January 2022
Dear Friends, As we all struggle to open schools in the face of omicron and address student learning loss over the short term, school leaders face a unique challenge—parents do…