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Marcia, a teacher from Wisconsin using the SOAR^® curriculum, recently asked us:

I was wondering if you have any suggestions for a student who wants to use an e-planner, rather than a paper one?

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There is nothing like the holidays to take a break and evaluate your life. Any time we step away from our routines, we begin to see things more objectively.  With this perspective, it is natural to desire change.  No wonder we make resolutions!

But, Do Resolutions Actually Work?

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Have you ever arrived at school and discovered that you left your homework at home…or your lunch money, gym shoes, library books, permission slip for next week’s field trip…? If you think it is annoying forgetting these things, your parents and teachers find it even more frustrating! The good news is that it is fairly easy to become better prepared for school. You just need to develop a few simple routines. (more…)

At a recent education conference I attended, there was a lot of buzz about the “multi-tasking” learner. Essentially, educators are recognizing that today’s students are plugged into their iPods®, surfing the internet, and text-messaging their friends all at the same time. So, there is a new push to educate students in that same “multi-tasking” mode.

While I would love to see mainstream education embrace more forms of media, teaching students several things, with many different forms of media -all at the same time- sets off an alarm for me! Our brains are not physiologically programmed to ACTIVELY learn more than one thing at a time. (more…)