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Study hall… Students hate it…. Teachers hate it more… (Okay, a couple of you like it… but most of you don’t.) Why? Because most study halls don’t work! Recently, we’ve had conversations with several schools about “Study Hall.” All of them expressed frustration over lack of results. From these conversations, two common themes have emerged:…
If your child is in reading remediation and you’ve started to wonder whether it’s actually helping — you’re not imagining it. You’ve watched them sit through more drills, more worksheets, more phonics practice. Maybe they’ve been pulled out of the parts of school they actually love. And the progress is still slow. Or invisible. Or…
Three days before school started, an eighth-grader named Nick lost the one class he had been looking forward to all summer. Nick was a gifted artist, and eighth grade was the first year he was eligible to take a daily elective. He’d waited all summer for it. Then the letter came: his reading scores were…
Fifteen years ago, I sat across a table from a principal who told me my six-year-old couldn’t read. He handed me six graphs. Every single one flatlined. The word “educational neglect” was said out loud — a legal term for child abuse. I’m a certified learning specialist. My husband is an educator. We had been…
If your child has been labeled “below level” in reading, but something in your gut keeps saying that’s not the whole story — pay attention to that feeling. The label may be measuring the reading situation, not the reader. And once you can see the difference, the path forward gets a lot clearer. This isn’t…
AI: Protecting the Reading-and-Thinking Brain in an AI World For a long time, I’ve been quiet on the topic of AI. Not because it doesn’t matter. Obviously, it does! But because I needed time to understand the tools… and the trajectory. One thing is certain: while AI is changing how students access information, it does…
Your students have more information available to them than ever before. The plus side is they can never say they can’t find information on a topic, or that the book was checked out from the library. But, as you may know, it is very easy for students to find information that is unreliable. Lots of…
There are three steps to setting goals: deciding, believing, and focusing. Decide. Will you decide to sit down with your class and set goals together? Will you decide to get a pen and a piece of paper and dream? If you don’t decide to fit it in your schedule, think of the repercussions. Think of that…
It’s time for the note-taking showdown everyone has been waiting for. Today, we reveal the winner of the ultimate note-taking battle… pencil-and-paper vs the computer. This has been the hottest question on note-taking for the past few years, and we have an answer for you! So, which is better? Full Disclosure Before we dig…
It was my last semester of college. “Senioritis” had fully kicked-in. I was ready to graduate. It was also the first day of EAD 315, “Student Leadership Training.” Waiting for class to start, I was focused on the friends I was meeting after class. The instructor began. He asked us to move our desks into…
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