What Not To Do When Planning For Response For Intervention

Planning For Response For Intervention: What Not To Do by Dan Henderson Ed note: You can read more in Dan’s new book, That’s Special: A Survival Guide To Teaching Special education teachers are often tasked with teaching small groups of four to six students. Response to intervention (RTI) is the terminology used for supporting struggling learners,…

Volunteering In My Wife’s Classroom Opened My Eyes

Volunteering In My Wife’s Classroom Opened My Eyes by Brent Wooten His wife is a longtime teacher, but commentator Bret Wooten says it was the time he spent volunteering in her classroom that opened his eyes to her world.   The other day my 7-year-old daughter Joslyn triggered a memory when she asked me: ā€œWhy…

What Classrooms Can Learn From Reality Shows

  What Classrooms Can Learn From Reality Shows by Barry Saide and Kevin Parr Most of our classrooms do not mirror the reality television show ā€˜The Voice,’ but maybe they should. ā€˜The Voice’ is a reality TV series in which contestants have blind auditions to see if one of the celebrity music artists pick them…

EdTech Doesn’t Hold All The Answers For Struggling Students

EdTech Doesn’t Hold All The Answers For Struggling Students by Sarah Garland, The Hechinger Report In March, technology entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, representatives from big-name companies and philanthropies and some teachers descended on Austin, TX for a conference meant to highlight new solutions to the biggest dilemmas in education. Educational games, apps, data dashboards and social…

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