Twenty years ago, the school district was at an impasse. According to Assistant Superintendent and Chief Financial Officer Shannon Pelland, “We were financially upside down. We had frozen salaries for ...

Journal of Educational Measurement, Vol. 54, No. 1, Special Issue: Collaborative Educational Assessments (Spring 2017), pp. 12-35 (24 pages) Collaborative problem solving is a complex skill set that ...

When we nurture resourcefulness and independent thinking, we can trust in our team’s capacity to grapple with any of the many ...

This research evaluates the effects of a scaffolded explanation-based approach to collaborative discussion on students' understanding of photosynthesis. This approach consists of instruction and ...

The agency world is shifting. In the past, agencies of record dominated the industry, offering a wide gamut of services all under one roof. There was an advantage to this setup, as working with one ...

Guests: Dr. Ross Greene, who specializes in the assessment and treatment of kids with social, emotional, and behavioral challenges, talks about his newest book on tackling behavior problems, called ...

Why is it so hard to change problem behavior—in our kids, our colleagues, and even ourselves? The answer is actually quite simple. Our understanding of how to change problem behavior comes from our ...

Why is it so hard to change problem behavior—in our kids, our colleagues, and even ourselves? The answer is actually quite simple. Our understanding of how to change problem behavior comes from our ...