Instructional Design Blog
What Parents Should Know About the New CAASPP Reporting 2023
If you are a parent and your child is in third grade or above and participates in California’s Assessment for Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP), you may have noted some changes this year in how those results are being reported to you.
In particular, you may have noticed the Lexile and Quantile report accompanies the main report.
The Economics of Mediocrity
Have you noticed that problems don’t seem to get solved these days? There are a number of issues that one would think, after all this time, that time, money, technology, innovation, policy or any combination of these things would have at least made a sizable dent in the issue if not resolved outright. And yet, there are a number of societal problems that seem to be getting worse as time passes rather than better.
Why I Quit Teaching After 22 Years
The short answer is that I had to leave the classroom after 22 years for my health. But the long answer is just what one would expect…