The Equity Leadership Column: What Holds a System Up?
By October, the plans made at the beginning of the school year have met reality.
Read the articleArticles and book-study reflections from Orenda’s practitioners, for the leaders doing the work.
By October, the plans made at the beginning of the school year have met reality.
Read the articleWord for word, write down the last piece of feedback you gave a teacher. Don’t embellish. I’ve done this with my own feedback, and it wasn’t comfortable. Keep it for later.
Last month, we asked a deceptively difficult question: What can we take off our district’s “Christmas tree”?
Have you ever wondered how it is that the more solutions we bring in to help historically lower-performing students, the less they sometimes seem to impact students?
Accelerated achievement data occurs when taught standards and tested rigor overlap – and our latest round of impact data demonstrates the power of Orenda’s Curriculum Alignment design.

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