Brands, Not Labels: Branding Smart and Erasing Stupid
According to the Alliance for Excellent Education, more than eight million students in grades 4-12 read below grade level. Illiteracy has become an epidemic of enormous proportions. In D.C. alone, 81.2% of 4th graders read below grade level and 83.9% of 8th graders read below their grade level. If you would like to implement a process within your school that will assist with closing the achievement gap, this is the presentation for you. At the school where Mrs. Smithen teaches, within just one school year, this process has moved the percentage of higher-level 8th-grade readers from 18.8% to 70%.
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Making Words into Instruments: Getting Your Students to Play Their Own Life’s Composition with Vocabulary
How can you make reading attractive to teens and young adults? Tired of telling them the same things over and over again, while they still don’t get it? We constantly communicate, “You need to know how to read!” But to keep up with entertainment and technology today, we must find more engaging ways to help our future leaders see reading’s relevance and importance.
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Teaching Kids How to Think
We tell children often, “Follow instructions the first time given!” Although it seems that they have a hard time doing so, they are following directions in another sense—and often to their detriment. In too many situations with peers and others, they don’t ask questions; they just follow. Teach your students how to think critically and advocate for themselves.