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All Kinds of Minds Website Gets a Makeover!
Posted in Learning, Learning about Learning, Strategies for teachers, Teachers, Uncategorized on November 18, 2010 | 2 Comments »
One School’s Faculty-wide Exploration of Schools for All Kinds of Minds
Posted in Classroom Culture, Differentiated Instruction, Differentiated Learning, Learning, Learning about Learning, Learning Challenges, Learning Specialists, Private School, School Culture, Strategies for teachers, Teacher Effectiveness, Teachers, Uncategorized on October 28, 2010 | 3 Comments »
By Mary Mannix, Guest Blogger Last spring, administrators at Indian Creek School, an All Kinds of Minds School of Distinction, searched for a book for summer reading for the faculty that would be meaningful and relevant to teachers across all three divisions of the school, from pre-kindergarten to 12th grade. Why Schools for All Kinds [...]
Embrace What’s Going Right to Pave a Better Road to Learning
Posted in Affinities, Classroom Culture, Differentiated Instruction, Differentiated Learning, Learning, Learning about Learning, School Culture, Strategies for teachers, Student Strengths, Teacher Effectiveness, Teachers, Uncategorized on October 21, 2010 | 5 Comments »
By Michele Robinson, Director of Special Projects at All Kinds of Minds and co-author of Schools for All Kinds of Minds Grab a pen or pencil. Off the top of your head, list 3-4 of your strengths – those things you do well with relative ease. Now list 3-4 affinities – those activities or topics [...]
Celebrate World Teachers’ Day – TODAY!
Posted in Uncategorized on October 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Today, October 5th, is World Teachers’ Day – a day of recognition created by UNESCO in 1994 to celebrate teachers worldwide. Its aim is to mobilize support for teachers and to ensure that the needs of future generations will continue to be met by teachers. We couldn’t let this day go by without acknowledgement. In [...]
Teachers: What’s Your Framework?
Posted in Attention, Classroom Culture, Differentiated Instruction, Differentiated Learning, Higher Order Thinking, Language, Learning, Learning Challenges, Research, School Culture, Strategies for teachers, Teacher Effectiveness, Teachers, Uncategorized on September 30, 2010 | 11 Comments »
By Craig Pohlman, Ph.D., Co-author of Schools for All Kinds of Minds and Director of MindMatters at Southeast Psych, a learning program in Charlotte, NC In some circles, All Kinds of Minds has become equated with the neurodevelopmental framework it uses, but this framework is only one aspect of their approach to understand learning and learners. [...]
‘Waiting for Superman’ — How do we rescue education in America?
Posted in Uncategorized on September 29, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Waiting for Superman has sparked more conversation about our public schools than any other event in recent memory. While there’s much food for thought, at All Kinds of Minds we are interested in the reactions people are having to how the core business of schooling–LEARNING–is portrayed. Tell us what you think about this controversial movie [...]
Building Schools for All Kinds of Minds
Posted in Affinities, Classroom Culture, Differentiated Instruction, Learning, Learning about Learning, Learning Challenges, Learning Specialists, School Culture, Strategies for teachers, Student Strengths, Student Weaknesses, Teacher Effectiveness, Teachers, Uncategorized on September 23, 2010 | 7 Comments »
In our recently-published book, Schools for All Kinds of Minds: Boosting Student Success by Embracing Learning Variation, our CEO Mary-Dean Barringer makes the point that “Educators, school leaders and policymakers … talk around learning but not about learning,” and she notes that equipping educators with current knowledge from science about how we are wired to [...]
Facebook Back-to-School Question of the Week #2
Posted in Affinities, Classroom Culture, Learning, Strategies for teachers, Student Strengths, Student Weaknesses, Teacher Effectiveness, Teachers, Uncategorized on August 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
To help get you in the back-to-school spirit – and maybe pick up some great ideas along the way – we recently started a Back-to-School Question of the Week series on Facebook. This is an opportunity for you to share your thoughts with your virtual colleagues around some key back-to-school questions. We wanted to share [...]
Summer Blog Series Post #7: The Role of Graphomotor Function in Handwriting
Posted in Differentiated Learning, Graphomotor Function, Handwriting, Learning, Learning Challenges, Strategies for teachers, Teacher Effectiveness, Uncategorized, Writing on August 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
In last week’s post, we discussed the demands of revising written work. Today, we’re going to focus on a different aspect of writing: handwriting. Many people, adults and children alike, struggle with penmanship. The ability to use computers to convey ideas can help minimize the need for handwriting and relieve handwriting-challenged individuals from the frustration [...]
Summer Blog Series Post #5: The Role of Spatial Ordering in Understanding Math Symbols
Posted in Differentiated Learning, Learning, Learning Challenges, Math, Nonverbal thinking, Spatial Ordering, Strategies for teachers, Teacher Effectiveness, Teachers, Uncategorized, Visualization on July 27, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The results of our recent poll are in! You, our readers, expressed a strong interest in hearing about learning challenges related to math … so in response, this week’s blog is about the spatial ordering demands involved in understanding math symbols. Thank you to everyone who participated in our poll. We love the feedback. In [...]
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