Calling all Publishers, School Administrators, State Leaders, Researchers, Scientists and Collaborators:
If you are an innovative teacher, administrator, researcher, education advocate, state or business professional with a primary interest in serving the “good” of diverse learners, we want to talk with you.
Today, diverse learners sit in every classroom across America and it’s our job to help them build confidence and achieve life-long learning success!
SEE our Collaborative Partners
Together, we can build, prove and promote ‘what works’ in education for the benefit of all students and the positive publicity of sound educational values.
Partners, Collaborators, Educational Leaders and In Cooperation with..
Partners:
- Jerry Stemach, MS, CCC-SLP, Author and Literacy Expert
- Fairfax County VA School District
- Spotswood School District, NJ
- Wauconda, IL Teachers
Educational Leaders:
- Ted S.Hasselbring, Ed.D. and leading education researchers out of
Vanderbilt University
- Karen Erickson, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Literacy and Disability
Studies at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Gail Venable, MS, CCC-SLP, Author and Literacy Expert
- Dorothy Tyack, MA, Author and Literacy Expert
- Caroline Musselwhite, Ed.D., CCC-SLP, International Literacy Consultant and Author
- Dr. Patricia Cunningham, Four Blocks Model
- Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST) – Universal Design for
Learning
- Education Development Center (EDC)
- Center for Implementing Technology in Education (CITEd)
- Illinois ASCD
- HumanWare
In Cooperation with...
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NASA Caltech/Jet Propulsion Laboratory Education Office, Mars Public Engagement, NASA-Mars Exploration Program scientists and engineers.
NEW! Robot Explores on Mars and The Search for Life on Mars, two Core Content titles created in cooperation with NASA/Caltech-JPL.
Our early research led us to the conclusion that students who are not reading by middle school have two significant problems with respect to reading:
- Inability to decode and read connected text fluently
- Inability to create mental models from text
One approach proposed by the Cognition and Technology Group at Vanderbilt is the use of video to help create accurate mental models and to provide the necessary background knowledge for building deep understanding. Video 'anchors' the learner with the necessary background knowledge to make sense out of new knowledge."
Ted Hasselbring, Ph.D., Peabody Institute of Learning, Vanderbilt University
