Today, I had the opportunity to testify before the Oregon House Education Committee on the importance of instructional time as they reassess their current state policies on minimum instructional time.

I encourage other states to consider raising instructional time minimums as well.

We spent some time in the enchanting town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico over the winter break. I was thrilled to see these solar panels covering the entire parking lot at Walmart, providing clean energy and shade from the sun.

More of this please.

Because we cannot say it enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

A short piece on the tragedy at Brown University—and why we must refuse to accept mass school shootings as normal.

matthewakraft.substack.com/p/the-insani...

Impressive new RCT on professional learning/teacher beliefs/instructional practices.

It uses a team-based, theory-driven, methodologically rigorous & large scale research design to uncover core insights about increasing student engagement & learning.

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Excited to see our latest paper examining student-tutor ratios in online math tutoring highlighted in @crpe.bsky.social's latest Evidence Project round up.

Paper:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Evidence Project Substack:
evidenceproject.substack.com/p/notes-from...

Thanks to The Learning Agenda for inviting me to give a Thought Leader talk on *Implementing* and *Scaling* Effective Teacher Coaching Programs at their annual conference.

Happy to share a few of my key takeaways.

What else is the secret sauce of sustaining effective teacher coaching programs?

@edsustainable.bsky.social is hosting our first annual interdisciplinary conference!

Research at the intersection of education and the environment. 🎓🌎

May 1st, 2026

Providence, RI

Easy one paragraph abstract submission ⬇️
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Please share w/ your networks!

📢 Announcing the 25-26 SustainableED Virtual Seminar Series!

We're hosting 4 public seminars synthesizing research at the intersection of ed & climate change:

12/1 @jorgecuartas.bsky.social
2/9 Jaimie Davis
3/11 Hunter Gehlbach
4/15 @claudiapersico.bsky.social

Register: linktr.ee/edsustainable

What are the tradeoffs of one-on-one vs. small group (3:1) tutoring in an online setting?

We ran an RCT and surveyed tutors working in both conditions to find out.

Now out in EEPA
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

@annenberginstitute.bsky.social working paper
edworkingpapers.com/ai24-976

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The public education system has engaged in a profoundly unique experiment to take tutoring to scale as part of pandemic recovery efforts.

I had the pleasure of speaking w/ @lizcohen12.bsky.social about what we've learned & where we go from here.

thefutureoftutoring.substack.com/p/q-and-a-ma...

When we think about education & climate change, we often picture images of schools damaged by natural disasters made more frequent & severe by climate change.

Extreme weather events are an increasing threat, but the relationship between schools and climate change is much more complex and expansive.