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Brain First Learning for an AI World EXECUTIVE FUNCTION · FOR EDUCATORS Executive Function Curriculum Every subject stands on it. Almost no one teaches it. SOAR® does. WHERE IT STARTS You already know these students You can name them before you reach the end of this sentence. The one who lights up in discussion but…
Brain First Learning for an AI World WHAT IS SOAR? STUDY SKILLS CURRICULUM OVERVIEW The Study Skills Curriculum That Builds Executive Function The foundational component of the SOAR Executive Function Curriculum. Executive function is the brain’s operating system for every subject. Most students were never taught it directly — and the ones who learn it…
AI is changing everything. Except how the brain learns. Reading, focusing, and thinking… these capacities have a name schools use but rarely explain: executive function. We build it — the way the brain was designed to learn. Trusted in 5,100+ schools across 53 countries. Most learning help drills the symptom. We teach the brain circuit…
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…
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…
“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…
The following article was first published in 2021, during the thick of the pandemic. We wanted to share this article again because the learning value of digital media still remains true to this day! We are both educators, but you can stick a fork in us… we’re DONE! We’ve always said that we could never…
Are you a teacher or administrator looking for more support from your peers and/or parents? After 20+ years, we’ve learned some very helpful strategies for getting support from the majority of your community! We’ve created this video (below) to help you: How to Get Teachers & Parents On Board with SOAR®
Research consistently confirms there are two critical ways to raise test scores on standardized tests: Build “cognitive flexibility” with metacognitive strategies.1 If students don’t have problem-solving strategies for learning content, well… they won’t learn it! Obviously. Teach the curriculum, not “to the test.” Teaching “to the test” –also known as “item teaching”– actually lowers test scores; it…
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