How can you prepare every student for reading success?Reading strategies are explicit, planned actions that help translate the printed word into sounds and meaning. Reading skills benefit every kind of student, but they are essential for emerging readers, struggling readers, English Language Learners, and students with learning challenges, according to Reading Horizons. Here are some of…
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AXS CEO Troy McClain Featured at Special Needs Conference
Idaho Partnerships Conference on Human Services has a great featured speaker this fall: Troy McClain is the CEO of AXS , a full-service marketing, communications and business management firm focused on growing people and businesses to great heights. Their website says: Our annual conference is an opportunity to bring professionals, self-advocates and family members together…
What Mastery-Based Learning Would Look Like in Idaho
As we discuss children’s literature, it is important to examine connections between learning with and through the written word and the policies that determine what goes on in classrooms. Superintendent of Public Instruction Sherri Ybarra is working to help lawmakers “move from the notion or the concept of mastery-based education to the actual concrete view…
What is the difference between Fantasy and Science Fiction?
“Modern fantasy literature has unexplainable magic, and it is this element that captures the minds and hearts of children.” – Charles A. Temple, Miriam A. Martinez, Junko Yokota in Children’s Books in Children’s Books in Children’s Hands: A Brief Introduction to Their Literature. I love fantasy and science fiction. Children tend to read a lot of these stories because…
Great Children’s Activities and Books Available for Success Club Retreat in Cancun
Proven Success: Attend an amazing Leadership Retreat in Cancun, Mexico! Learn how to Be, Do and Have all you want in life — and bring the whole family! Join us for Leadership Retreat ’16 at the Moon Palace in Cancun, Mexico, March 4th – 6th. Read details and register here. Entrance to this exclusive weekend…
Guest Post: Failure Should Be Mindful Not Mindless, by Chris Wasden
Last week I did an interview for a Podcast with Dr. Travis Good. He kicked off the interview by asking the following question: In your book, you talk about failure being the spark that ignites the innovation cycle. Since more than half of all digital health companies fail in the first two years, are you suggesting that these founders get right back on the saddle and develop their next idea? Here are my thoughts on failure. There are two different kinds of failure: mindless and mindful. The difference between mindful and mindless failure is the former occurs based upon continuous…
SCHOOLS ON TRIAL: How Freedom and Creativity Can Fix Our Educational Malpractice
Are America’s schools little more than cinder-block gulags that spawn vicious cliques and bullying, negate creativity, and true learning and squelch curiosity in their inmates, um, students? Nikhil Goyal, a journalist and activist all of twenty years old whom the Washington Post has dubbed a “future education secretary” and Forbes has named to its 30 Under…
Guest Post: Why Special Needs are So Special to Me by AXS CEO Troy McClain
by AXS CEO Troy McClain I have learned there is nothing more rewarding than giving back through teaching, educating and inspiring others to do great things. I’m blessed that I have the chance to follow the lead of some great practitioners in both business and life. But there is a beautiful flip side to the…
You have to write! by Janet Wong Can “Inspire a New Generation of Writers”
I’m hoping that this book will inspire a new generation of writers to tap into their own everyday experiences and family stories! (this book was dedicated to Carol Jago, who invited me to the conference where I sat and listened to teachers who convinced me I needed to write it) – Janet Wong, on my…
It’s that time again at @nlp_secure @MaxGivingBoise Come celebrate April at monthly First Friday Luncheon
“One of the challenges in networking is everybody thinks it’s making cold calls to strangers. Actually, it’s the people who already have strong trust relationships with you, who know you’re dedicated, smart, a team player, who can help you.” – Reid Hoffman This event is FREE and open to the public! Anyone can come: teachers, authors,…
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