Chris Weber is the principal of Oak Creek Elementary School in Irvine Unified School District, California. He earned his EdD from the University of California, Los Angeles, and has written books on Professional Learning Communities (PLCs), Response to Intervention (RTI), behavior, and mathematics that have supported well over half a million educators.
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Based on Adapting Unstoppable Learning and Simplifying Response to Intervention
Common sense needs to be a common thread in education, and this applies to response to intervention (RTI) or multitiered systems of support (MTSS) as well.
One of the most frequent questions I receive related to RTI is, “What is an interventionist or intervention specialist?” Read more
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Teachers have been teaching what they’ve been asked to teach; the curriculum commonly taught, and that we expect students to learn, in classrooms today—for better or worse—reflects the standards in place up until 2010.
However, the policy documents, frameworks, and standards in place since 2010 are qualitatively distinct—and this is a very good thing. Depth and skills are increasingly emphasized and encouraged to be taught and learned. Read more
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Based on Behavior: The Forgotten Curriculum
Parent involvement and support from home—or the lack thereof—is a consistent conversation at schools across the country and across the world. Read more
Based on Behavior: The Forgotten Curriculum
We want students to care, to be engaged, to be self-motivated, to have intrinsic motivation. Let’s allow them to be engaged and motivated.
Consider this quote from Carol Dweck, Gregory Walton, and Geoffrey Cohen: “When noncognitive factors are in place, students will look—and be—motivated. In fact, these noncognitive factors constitute what psychological researchers call motivation, and fostering these mindsets and self-regulation strategies is what psychological researchers typically mean by motivating students.” Read more
Remember GVC?
In 2001, Robert Marzano introduced us to these critically important letters. GVC—a guaranteed, viable curriculum. It’s never been more important than it is today. Read more
Chris Weber
