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Two items to read about below: the standardized testing requirement and the testing deadline. Standardized Testing Requirement Oregon leaders initially appealed to the US Department of Education to waive all standardized testing. While the initial appeal was denied, a compromise was reached. Oregon’s follow up request that the number of areas/tests be reduced due to…

Many parents get a wake-up call when the results of their child’s achievement test suggest the curriculum they used let them down. In other words, if your child flew through their curriculum easily yet did poorly on their achievement test, the question is why? What, if anything, went wrong? Was it test anxiety or poor…

I’m sure you’ve heard the following before. Maybe even said one of them to someone, even to yourself. I have. Just stay positive Everything happens for a reason Things will work out Look on the bright side If I was in a car accident and walked away with minor injuries, one of the above statements…

You might be saying to yourself, “Working backwards means what exactly?” The idea has been around for a while. It was popularized by time and task management expert, Stephen Covey. What he said was, “Begin with the end in mind.” When he used that phase, he was referring to a process he believed was helpful…

Do you know someone who, when he or she is sick, isn’t the best patient? They become a bit of a whiner?  We’ve all got plans, projects, and deadlines. Most of us live “behind schedule.” Now that we’ve got the flu,  we won’t be making the kind of progress we expected to make on our…