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Susan Kruger Winter, M.Ed.
Why Do You Have to Work So Hard to Make Students Learn? You work harder and harder, but clearly feel a drag. You are tasked with more things to do, document, and correlate every day. Your extended efforts never seem to be enough. Students become more apathetic. Many people are quick to blame technology. But,…
I was a freshman in college when study skills radically changed my life. I went from struggling in K-12 to “straight As” in college. About six weeks after my first semester of college success, however, I was suddenly overcome with a deep, visceral ANGER. “Why didn’t someone teach me how to learn before!?” I was mentally…
Brain First Learning in an AI World TIER 3 INTERVENTIONS RTI/MTSS Tier 3: Take a Step Back Before Going Forward More intensity isn’t the answer when the wrong gap is being targeted. Tier 3 is where we stop escalating and start digging deeper — finding the exact place the learning circuit breaks down. She averaged…
Brain First Learning in an AI World TIER 2 INTERVENTIONS RTI/MTSS: Elements of Effective Intervention Lessons When Tier 1 builds the foundation, Tier 2 builds the bridge. You’ve tried slowing things down. You’ve tried different programs. You’ve tried more repetition, different modalities, fresh starts. Some of it worked. Some of it didn’t. And the pattern…
Brain First Learning in an AI World TIER 1 INTERVENTIONS RTI/MTSS Tier 1: Avoid Differentiation at the Wrong Layer Teach What’s Universal, Honor What’s Individual “Executive function is EVERYTHING. It’s the key to everything. And it’s our single, greatest challenge!” — Elizabeth H., Administrator, Jacksonville, FL At the neurological layer, all brains learn the same…
By now, you’ve heard me mention Ginelle, SOAR®’s Operations Manager. Ginelle is a certified teacher; she was actually my son’s (favorite) teacher. She is very kind and easily wins respect from her students. But, she holds everyone accountable. I believe she is one of the best teachers I’ve ever had the pleasure to meet and am…
Dozens of Problems… One Solution Ever have a set of horizontal blinds go all wonky… tilting sideways, individual slats facing every different direction? Yet, with one careful tug on a string, they all conform and neatly snap right back into place… Satisfying feeling, isn’t it? That’s what we do with learning, organization, and soft skills……
If reading has felt heavy in your home, this is your reframe. When your child or teen reads a word “wrong,” your first instinct is to correct it. That’s a loving instinct — and it’s also the moment when the most useful information a reading session can give you disappears. Because every reading “mistake” is…
“I am convinced that a ‘good’ teacher is a ‘self-abuser’ teacher!!” My grad-school professor said this in class one day. He was lamenting that his wife, a kindergarten teacher, had been on leave for two years to have their two children (they lived in Canada, with generous maternity leave). He specialized in reading development and…
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