Helping Our Schools Increase Literary Skills: Part 7 Helping Our Schools by Increasing Literacy â Triggering an Epidemic Mary had a plan She got the principalâs and the parentâs permission to do the reading screening from the website with the schoolâs students. She got her book club to give up a session and to spend a day listening  to the children do theContinue reading “Helping Our Schools Increase Literary Skills: Part 7”
Why Our Schools Are Failing- Part 6 Helping Our Schools by Increasing Literacy â Part 6 Letâs Start a Word-of-Mouth Literacy Epidemic â A Hypothetical Example. Mary is a connector. She has many friends and acquaintances, is a member  of several community groups, is called upon often to head up or serves on    committees, including the Parent/TeachersContinue reading “Why Our Schools Are Failing- Part 6”
Why Our Schools Are Failing: Part 5 Helping Our Schools Create Literacy SkillsâPart 5 Letâs Start a Word-of-Mouth Literacy Epidemic Introduction It is incredibly important that we understand, as Gladwell points out, that epidemics develop in geometric progression, not linear progression. With each successive step, they double in size. The HIV/Aids epidemic started with oneContinue reading “Why Our Schools Are Failing: Part 5”
Why Our Schools Are Failing- Part 4 Helping to Change Our Schools by Increasing Literacy â Part 4 Introduction The Amarok Society project in Dhaka Bangladesh is a microscopic version of what might become a literacy epidemic. The environment had most, if not all, of the required conditions; A fledgling Connector – me A Maven â Dr. Tanyss Munro â an expertContinue reading “Why Our Schools Are Failing- Part 4”
Helping our Schools by Increasing Student Literacy – Part 3 Blog #106- Helping our schools by increasing student literacy. – Part 3 Introduction One possibility for helping to change schools is to create a literacy epidemic of the type reported in Malcolm Gladwellâs book Tipping Point which was described in the last blog (Blog #105). Gladwell points out that certain environmental circumstancesContinue reading “Helping our Schools by Increasing Student Literacy – Part 3”
What We Can Do to Make Our Schools Work- Part 2 What Can We Do To Make Our Schools Work? â Start Small – Part 2 Introduction Public education is huge. It is the 800 pound gorilla in the room. Considering K-12 education alone, here are some recent facts from the U.S. Dept of Education. 55+ million studentsContinue reading “What We Can Do to Make Our Schools Work- Part 2”
What We Can Do to Make Our Schools Work- Part 1  What Can We Do To Make Our Schools Work? – Part 1 Introduction Virtually everyone has an opinion about our educational system and especially what is wrong with it. Many of the opinions are based more on emotion and frustration than on hard facts and proven research. These discussions crop up in almost everyContinue reading “What We Can Do to Make Our Schools Work- Part 1”
Why Our Schools Are Failing â Part 5: A Second Solution Why Our Schools Are Failing â Part 5  A Second Solution  It is possible that schools could quickly and universally adopt methods that have irrefutable research backgrounds to support them, such as Behavior Analysis, Direct Instruction, and Precision Teaching. That is unlikely to happen. There are simply too few knowledgeable practitioners to train,Continue reading “Why Our Schools Are Failing â Part 5: A Second Solution”
Why Our Schools Are Failing- Part 4 Why Our Schools Are Failing- Part 4 The Solution If school administrators at all levels really want to make our public schools work, they need to take a lesson from medicine and the ways in which medical professionals are trained. If you had appendicitis, it probably doesnât matter which hospital you are admitted to, theContinue reading “Why Our Schools Are Failing- Part 4”
