Apr 18th 2009 Neural Trapping: A Brief Remedial Technique for Students with Memory and Attention-related Learning Disorders
The article discusses a remedial method for improving memory and performance consistency in students with ADHD, Autism and Learning Disabilities
Apr 6th 2009 Arapahoe Charter School - A Community Gem
Arapahoe, a small eastern North Carolina town with a population approximately 450, is located six minutes north of Minnesott Beach and 16 miles from Havelock. Greenville and Raleigh, the state capital, are 60 and 133 miles away, respectively.
Apr 5th 2009 Cartoon Cat Teaches Kids It's Okay To Be Different
Floppy Cat isn’t like all the other cats. Instead of strolling and running, he flips, flops and sways when he walks. But instead of treating his oddball crawl like a hindrance, he treats it like a gift, making his story a metaphor for any child who isn’t like everyone else. Kari Kay, author of Floppy Cat, from the Floppy Cat Company (www.floppycat.com) based her children’s book on the life of her real cat, Floppy, who was born with a balance disability that turned his normal
Apr 5th 2009 Teaching Kids To Accept Being Different
Children don’t have the same filter between their brains and their mouths that adults do, and if you need evidence of that, just think back to any moment of embarrassment caused by your child’s ultra-honesty. It’s one thing for an adult to see someone who is obese and think, “he’s fat,” but children are more than likely to point and say in a loud, non-indoor voice, “Wow, Mommy, he’s fat!” Children are more attuned to differences, both in ph
Apr 5th 2009 Kids Are Smarter Than We Think
Illiteracy isn’t just an inconvenience, according to the National Literacy Institute. It’s a national emergency. According to recommendations recently made to President-Elect Obama’s education advisors, the U.S. is facing an unprecedented literacy crisis that reflects a need for the nation to invest in early education programs and make language development a primary focus of every preschool. But Micah Linton, author and artist of weebeasts, from Beast Stew/Greenleaf Book Gro
Mar 28th 2009 New book explains the crisis in the public schools, and how we fix it
I’ve been writing about education more than 25 years. It’s been a fascinating but puzzling journey. So much in education is counterintuitive. We would expect that there are quicker, more pleasant ways to do any task; conversely, there must be slow, inefficient and unsuccessful ways to do everything. It’s the second kind that our elite educators (the ones who run the system) gravitate toward. How can we explain this? It’s almost as if our educators merely pretend to believe in universal educati
Mar 26th 2009 Top 7 Ways to Engage Students in Math
Turn your math class into the talk of the school by following these tips from Pilot Math by Etraffic Press.
Mar 24th 2009 Breathe and Stretch
How Yoga Can Help Kids and Teenagers Deal With the Stresses of Modern Society
Mar 21st 2009 Tips for Solving Algebra Word Problems
Tips on how to work out word problems in algebra. Learn how to convert statements into algebraic expressions and solve for an unknown. |
