All Episodes
ExtraOrdinary Districts — 62 episodes
A Dream Project, Staff Shortages, and Canceling the Ku Klux Klan—Wait, What?
Leading the Way
Addressing Learning Needs
Where Are All Those Dollars Going?
How are Schools & Districts Using the Money That the Federal Government Has Provided to Help Them Get Through the COVID Crisis?
Districts That Succeed
What Have We Heard? What Have We Learned?
What Can States Do to Improve Reading Instruction?
High-Quality Materials
The “Science of Reading”
The Right to Read
School Leaders REALLY Matter
Opening a School Building in the Time of COVID
The State of Reading in America
Managing COVID-19
“It’s amazing how much kids adapt and learn.”
“Something that was already a yeoman’s job has become even greater.”
“We keep using that word hard.”
“We have a third of our kids in every day. But one hundred percent of our students are learning every single day”
“As soon as we’re back to normal, we’ll have to accelerate our kids.”
ExtraOrdinary Districts – Season 4 is Coming!
“What Did We Hear? What Did We Learn?”
“We’ve been planning, planning, planning.”
“Schools that already had cohesive cultures did the best.”
“Our hope is to come back as close to normal as we possibly can.”
“Virtual learning on steroids.”
“We have the resources.”
“This is so much of a harder task to perform”
“We’ve borrowed the phrase, provide grace”
“We have the opportunity and I hope we don’t waste it”
“This is going to make our system better”
“Our schools were not built for this”
“We would be wrong to believe that education won’t be transformed forever”
“We’re trying not to overwhelm them, because they are living through a pandemic.”
“Why Did We Even Think That Could Work?”
“There Are So Many Unknowns.”
“They are rising to the challenge”
Creating the New Normal Day by Day
“Let’s teach….But remember the context.”
Maintaining Relationships in a Distance Learning World
No Computer, No Wi-Fi, & No Cell Coverage While America Is Supposed to be Learning Online
Panel Discussion on “Systems to Build Knowledge”
Valley Stream 30: Systems to Build Knowledge
Panel Discussion on “Fast Improvement in Delaware”
Seaford, Delaware: Fast Improvement in Delaware
Discussion of Lane, Oklahoma
Lane, OK: Exposing and Learning from Success
Live! With ExtraOrdinary Districts – A Discussion on District Improvement
ExtraOrdinary Districts Season 2 is Coming!
Special Edition: Segregation, Integration and the Milford 11
Special Edition: ExtraOrdinary Districts Need Extraordinary School Leaders. How Do We Get Them?
ExtraOrdinary Districts: Chicago Part 3 – On the Ground
ExtraOrdinary Districts: Chicago Part 2 – Stumbling Toward Some Answers
ExtraOrdinary Districts: Chicago Part 1 – Nowhere to Go But Up
Steubenville Part 3: Tackling the Secondary Drop-off
Steubenville Part 2: A Program in Service of a Vision
Steubenville Part 1: Changing the Path of Poverty
ExtraOrdinary Districts: Lexington Part 3 – Building a Learning Community
ExtraOrdinary Districts: Lexington Part 2 – Where Do You Start? Everywhere!
ExtraOrdinary Districts: Lexington Part 1 – Secrets of a High-Performing School District
ExtraOrdinary Districts: Episode 1 – How Do We Know Which School Districts are ExtraOrdinary?
ExtraOrdinary Districts: Ordinary school districts that get extraordinary results