Tag Archives | reading

Superintendents: Are you “leading your teacher’s learning” or “training” them?

By on April 23, 2013 in Capital Value Case, Challenge of Change, First-Person Learning, Learning, Maladaptive Schema, Mind-Shame, Mission of Education

Buying the ‘right’ program and training teachers to use it is not only insufficient, it misorients a school system’s learning.

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Research: Investigating the Literacy – Mental Health Relationship

By on February 7, 2013 in Children of the Code, Comments on other sites, Healthy Learning, Unhealthy Learning

Research: mental health effects of feeling chronically improficient in the skill areas most important to success in school

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Update: Children of the Code: CHANGING TRAJECTORIES – the Final Chapter

By on January 15, 2013 in Challenge of Change, Children of the Code, Healthy Learning

“CHANGING TRAJECTORIES” is the final chapter of Phase I of COTC and includes our suggestions and tips for improving the learning trajectories of struggling readers.

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Update: Children of the Code Release: “The Brain’s Challenge”

By on January 8, 2013 in Artificial Learning, Brain Science, Children of the Code, Mind-Shame

“THE BRAIN’S CHALLENGE” is the centerpiece of the Children of the Code project and illustrates the main challenge underlying learning to read difficulties in the English language.

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Major Update to Children of the Code – Two New Video Chapters

By on December 26, 2012 in Children of the Code, Learning, Mind-Shame, Unhealthy Learning

The Children of the Code site has been upgraded to much higher quality videos that can be run on your tablets, smartphones, etc. ++ Two new chapters: “What is Reading?” and “Paradigm Inertia”

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Help Us Reduce Reading Shame!

By on October 1, 2012 in Children of the Code, Mind-Shame

We are raising funds to give our DVD sets to the teachers and literacy volunteers that need it the most but can afford it the least. Help us!

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What does it mean that most of our children are CHRONICALLY IMPROFICIENT in the skills most critically important for success in school?

By on September 19, 2012 in Learning, Mind-Shame, Mission of Education, Self-Esteem, Unhealthy Learning

What does it mean that most of our children are CHRONICALLY IMPROFICIENT in the skill areas most critically important for success in school?

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Is Wealth Inequality A Matter of Choice?

By on July 4, 2012 in Capital Value Case, Comments on other sites, I AM LEARNED, Self-Esteem

The attribution of choice lies at the heart of virtually all forms of social inequality and what might also be called “self-inequality”. How we hold ourselves responsible for our choices forms much of the basis for how proud or ashamed of ourselves we are. How we hold others responsible for their choices forms much of the basis of our judgements about them. After all, if we believe that ‘success’ is the product of individual choice then so to is ‘failure’.

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IQ Learning

By on June 28, 2012 in Artificial Learning, Brain Science, Children of the Code, I AM LEARNED, Learning

Working Memory: IQ is not fixed. For better and worse, learning changes IQ. Because intelligence both shapes and is shaped by learning our conversation about the plasticity of IQ is another case in point for: “I” become the “me” I learn to be.

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Re:Don’t punish the kids because they can’t read

By on June 16, 2012 in Children of the Code, Comments on other sites, Mind-Shame

The following is in response to Pat Smith’s piece in the Columbus Dispatch, which I highly recommend. http://goo.gl/UA26f With gratitude and respect, a couple of points: 1) A lot more than 1/3 of our kids are in danger. Every child that is reading below the proficiency level assumed by the written materials in his or her [...]

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