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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…
Welcome, Fellow Dragons If you came here from the Lake Orion Chat Room – welcome. “Reading struggles” are common. But when a school report says your child is “below reading level,” it can feel heavy. Urgent. Personal. Even isolating. But it doesn’t have to stay that way… This is fixable – when addressed correctly. A…
Student motivation is a national crisis! Across every boundary: gender, racial, geographic, academic, and socioeconomic… students simply don’t care. Everyone knows our education system is in turmoil. It’s critically disconnected from the real-world. People attempt to improve education with STEM or STEAM programs. Or, they try to build “critical thinking skills.” But no one is talking about the…
SOAR Circle Membership Focus on what actually matters – without the pressure to do it perfectly Most moms I talk to carry the same invisible weight. Doing it all. Deciding it all. Worrying about it all. Reading about it all – trying to be sure they’re not missing anything. Classic “mom guilt.” (Or, “parent guilt.”)…
Choose support that fits right now Protecting the brain that reads and thinks in an AI world. Three ways to work with us – each designed around how the brain actually learns, not how the system assumes it should. Pick what fits today; adjust as things become clearer. Ongoing Support SOAR Circle Steady support, without…
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