by Chandra Williams Ed.D. | Jun 18, 2026 | Behavior, Literacy Instruction
The boy in the hallway can’t read your worksheet. Now what? He’s been in the hallway again. The principal has had the call with mom three times this month. The counselor has met with him weekly. His teacher is exhausted. And nobody has asked the question...
by Chandra Williams Ed.D. | Jun 16, 2026 | Literacy Instruction, Reading Diagnostics Assessments
Fast isn’t the goal. Accurate, expressive, and meaningful is Every reading benchmark report has a line for fluency, usually expressed as ‘words correct per minute.’ Every coaching conversation eventually circles back to it. And almost every school in...
by Chandra Williams Ed.D. | Jun 11, 2026 | Dyslexia, Special Education
About 1 in 5 of your students. Almost none of them identified. Now what? Walk into any school district in America and ask how many students have dyslexia. You’ll likely get a number under 5%. But the research is unambiguous: somewhere between 15 and 20% of the...
by Chandra Williams Ed.D. | Jun 9, 2026 | Leadership, Professional Development
Drive-by training is a leadership choice. Here’s what to do instead Every August, school leaders open the year with two days of professional development that they hope will transform instruction. Every September, they walk into classrooms and discover that...
by Chandra Williams Ed.D. | Jun 4, 2026 | Adolescent Literacy, Science of Reading
‘They learned that in elementary’ is the most expensive lie in your building Here’s a sentence I hear in nearly every middle school I walk into: ‘We don’t teach phonics here, they learned that in elementary.’ And here’s what...
