Building effective, efficient and gentle math and reading interventions based on current research that make sense for today's classrooms and students.
Ithaca, NY
Joined April 2012
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Reading teachers working with old students and adults. The Xprize Committee selected So. Methodist U. Android app as the winner of the $2MM Adult Literacy XPrize. SMU group has a long history of systematic phonics and phonological its free. abc.xprize.org/pw5599
Is school mainly for academics or should help students grow socially, emotionally? Should we boost their curiosity and help them find meaning and purpose in life? Peter Gray has a clear opinion.
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Great article that tracks public perception of teachers and education from the dark years of high stakes testing and draconic evaluation processes to today, with a teacher shortage and fights for pay and funding in the face of tax cuts. washingtonpost.com/education…
If you want to think differently about learning follow Peter Gray . Infants' Instincts to Help, Share, and Comfort
Moral growth is promoted when we allow little ones to act on their instincts.
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Tear Down Your Behavior Chart is a much needed reimagining of classroom behavior controls. A positive move from compliance to self-regulation and avoiding emotional punishments.
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Too often teachers are forced to concerned themselves with discipline more than the emotional and social growth of their students. Not so much as doing away with rules but taking a thoughtful inclusive approach to a positive classroom environment
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With cruelty to children dominating the news -- The Dutch value happy children and teens and their mental, physical and academic growth. They have a low-pressure, egalitarian culture where children and teens are both close to their parents and autonomous facebook.com/worldeconomicfo…
Letting kids roam free promotes mental health, compensates for too much screen time and accelerates learning. Maybe if parents could be a little less anxious and controlling....
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training programs that help children to increase their executive function, and manage their anger, could reduce their aggression.
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3 myths (& 3 truths) about differentiated instruction: edut.to/1JYfY29. #edchat http://t.co/LKKwhKaGLM via @edutopia
Newark's Facebook experiment: xitter.cf/PoliticsK12/status/641…
The incomparable @dalerussakoff unpacks the story of Newark's facebook fueled educational experiment here edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/… #edchat
How to Grow a Classroom Culture That Supports Blended Learning @estherwojcicki ow.ly/Rqo7s #edchat #edtech
5 Ways to Use Humor as Incentive for Homework via @BethDichter sco.lt/6MX2YL #edchat xitter.cf/DJFTLL/status/63797818… @DJFTLL
We've taken a bit of the summer off (well, not exactly like our naughty student pictured here) but we'll be back... fb.me/2344xWV2X