Delve into our curated articles designed to enhance and support best practices in the dynamic world of charter school education, brought to you by the Florida Charter Institute’s Paul Powell and Kathryn Perkins.
There is nothing quite like summer pre-service – its busyness, its energy, its sense of optimism. The year is a blank slate, with the potential for school growth and student achievement higher than ever. However, It’s also an important moment to marry excitement and optimism to concrete systems and achievable
By Paul Powell and Kathryn Perkins We are preparing for our fourth annual Instructional Leadership Institute, coming up this June, so we’ve been thinking about great coaching a lot lately. And while we’ve written extensively about elements that go into effective coaching (how to coach at the beginning of the
By Paul Powell and Kathryn Perkins Earlier this month, I was one of the nearly 125 million people who tuned into the Super Bowl. Though I consider myself a sports fan, football isn’t an area of particular interest for me – typically, the Super Bowl is my three-hour foray into
By Paul Powell and Kathryn Perkins A few months back, we wrote about the value of regular, systematic retrieval practice in the math classroom. The headline: retrieval is essential for learning. Without repeated, spaced at bats with interleaved information that lead to the sweet spot of “desirable difficulty,” there is
By: Paul Powell and Kathryn Perkins Earlier this month, we hosted a new workshop for our team titled “The Science of Math.” This represents an area of increasing importance, not just close to home here in Florida. Nationally, the most recent NAEP assessment, considered “our nation’s report card, showed alarming
The theme of our newsletter this month is creating learning teams – and it is my favorite yet! At the beginning of my teaching career, I was overwhelmed by all I needed to learn to be great for my students. However, because I was fortunate enough to work at a
