Indiegogo Featured Us as “Promising Prospect”

Indiegogo has selected Maloney Method’s Digital Reading Program as one of four Promising Prospects the day after our launch. This is fantastic news and shows how much potential this project has for changing lives (and changing minds). For a select period of time, an icon with the photo from our campaign will be placed asContinue reading “Indiegogo Featured Us as “Promising Prospect””

We Have Lift Off! Fundraising with Indiegogo and You!

  What an exhilarating feeling! This week we launched our first Indiegogo campaign. The Maloney Method is raising funds in order to convert our powerful, proven, and successful reading program from ink and paper to digital audio and video. A digital reading program could reach millions of students struggling to learn how to read. AContinue reading “We Have Lift Off! Fundraising with Indiegogo and You!”

Maloney Method with SPED Homeschool – Scientific Backing to Direct Instruction

What does it mean to say Direct instruction is the most effective education method out there? What does it mean to say this has scientific backing? And why is this not enough to persuade people to use Direct Instruction? What’s the issue? I talked to Peggy Ployhar from SPED Homeschool about direct instruction and otherContinue reading “Maloney Method with SPED Homeschool – Scientific Backing to Direct Instruction”

Maloney Method – Full Interview with David Calvert

David and I really had some fun with this talk. David Calvert in the mind behind Creative Calvert and has a podcast – Car Thoughts with David. He lives in the North Carolina area, and some of the best charter schools happen to be found in Wilmington. That’s right! I hope you have heard ofContinue reading “Maloney Method – Full Interview with David Calvert”

A Precision Teaching Case Study – Teaching Basic Literacy Skills to a Developmentally Delayed Student

The Student was a twelve year old boy diagnosed as being developmentally delayed. He lives in the U.S., although his first language is not English. He was enrolled in an academic tutorial program to prepare him for school entry. His program includes language, reading (decoding), reading comprehension, math, spelling, cursive and creative writing. In the beginning,Continue reading “A Precision Teaching Case Study – Teaching Basic Literacy Skills to a Developmentally Delayed Student”

Numeral Writing as an Introduction to Cursive Writing

Most people pay scant attention to cursive writing skills, but this inability can be a major barrier to completing written tasks, especially for children in elementary classrooms. Students are forced to rely on their printing skills when cursive is not carefully taught. Generally in elementary schools today, there is little formal instruction as to howContinue reading “Numeral Writing as an Introduction to Cursive Writing”