🌱 Gifts Can’t Thrive in Broken Soil: Why Strengths Alone Aren’t Enough
Consider This Perspective on Neurodiversity When my son Ian was three, he was doing puzzles designed for eight-year-olds. He was that kid who took apart old appliances just to see how they worked. His mind was curious, wired for exploration and innovation. But in...
Meeting Student Needs and Moving Forward: Strategies That Work
When students in your classroom are not progressing at the same rate or better as their peers, supplement their learning with researched based strategies that increase achievement. These are also Tier Two interventions for Response to Intervention. How to Respond to...
Draw It So You’ll Know It – A Teaching Strategy for Visual Learners
Teachers often present information verbally and linguistically. However, many of our students are visual learners. A substantial amount of our brain power is devoted to visual processing. When we add a visual component, a drawing component, to what we are teaching,...