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Archive for May, 2008

Teacher Buy In

Posted in Teachers, tagged on May 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve been talking to folks outside of the Forman community about how we get teachers to buy in to Schools Attuned. I find this a fascinating topic. So often, those who are closest to the point of impact for students who learning differently serve as advocates who champion the cause. Some classroom [...]

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“The Language”

Posted in Language, Learning Specialists, tagged , , on May 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Since our intensive training in the Schools Attuned Program, Subject Specialist Path, which earned faculty a certificate two summers ago, all Learning Specialists at Forman School now use the neurodevelopmental terms in the Learning Profile write-ups which they compose for each of their students before classes begin. This one page Learning Profile provides a [...]

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AKOM Private v Public

Posted in Private School, Testing, tagged , on May 8, 2008 | 5 Comments »

My role at Forman School, a private school for bright college bound learning disabled students centers on bringing two different playing fields together. A percentage of our students are funded by their local school districts. I have to deal with the districts, attorneys, advocates and parents. One [...]

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Sharing AKOM’s Research Base

Posted in Research, SA, tagged , , on May 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »

I recently shared AKOM’s Research Base of the Schools Attuned Porgram, www.allkindsofminds.org/Research/Index.aspx, with colleagues. Several teachers asked for this information following our school wide Schools Attuned work. While we work exclusively with college bound students who have learning differences, prior to learning the neurodevelopmental constructs, our teachers possessed many varied understandings of the [...]

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