The school and students featured in our March 2016 Newsletter must remain anonymous for student privacy and security, therefore we will not name the students who wrote the following letters. What we can tell you is these students are incarcerated and living in a residential County and Community School. Student 1: His teacher said this about him, "This is from an 11th […]
March 2016 NEWSLETTER Do You Believe Students Can Achieve? In this month's newsletter we are highlighting great work happening at an alternative education center in Northern California, so I thought it would be a good fit to tell you about a recent visit to a continuation school that has implemented Organized Binder. A significant number of […]
Thanks to veteran Spanish teacher and Organized Binder user Diane Nienhuis for sending us this post, "Dear Organized Binder Team, There is never data collected or calculated for Foreign Language in my district, as far as I know. So I just spent some time collecting my own data and thought I would share what has occurred […]
If we find ourselves in a hybrid schedule in the fall set your students up for success by incorporating these 3 R’s. Routine What makes for successful students in a hybrid schedule is structure. The same learning routines that promote student learning in the classroom can be in place at home. It is entirely possible […]
Committing to Implementation A teacher gets serious about Organized Binder and sees the results (from our November 2016 newsletter) "This year, I decided that I was going to fully commit to Organized Binder. From day one, I stressed the importance of the binder and I told students over and over again the expectations I had for […]
I think you will enjoy this conversation! I was recently a guest on the Resilient Schools Podcast with my friend Jethro Jones. Jethro and I have a great time taking a deep dive into all things executive functioning skills and we even get to hear a short story from his time as a young chess player in Russia! You can […]
“ ...improving executive function seems like a potentially promising vehicle for narrowing the achievement gap between poor kids and middle-class kids...if we can improve a child's environment in the specific ways that lead to better executive functioning, we can increase his prospects for success in a particularly efficient way.” Paul Tough How Children Succeed What […]
…if you practice elaboration, there’s no known limit to what you can learn. Elaboration is the process of giving new material meaning by expressing it in your own words and connecting it with what you already know. Brown, Roediger, McDaniel, Make It Stick - The Science of Successful Learning Working Memory As we discussed in […]
“Based on a century of research, in order to transform learning, we must focus on getting information out - a strategy called retrieval practice.” Agarwal and Bain, Powerful Teaching - Unleash the Science of Learning What is Working Memory? Working memory can be described as the ability to utilize information held in memory to solve […]
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