If you do not regularly read Teach Effectively! and you’re interested in the currently hot topic of “response to intervention” (RTI), you’ll probably want to visit the new page that I put up over there. It’s composed of descriptions of several presentations from the April 2007 meeting of the Council for Exceptional Children in Louisville (KY, US) along with downloadable PDFs of the slides from the presentations.
Archive for April, 2007
David McGrath has a well-written piece on his thoughts when he learned that “Fun with Dick and Jane” is selling briskly.
Continue reading ‘Dick and Jane redux’
Thanks to the ever-informed Liz Ditz, I’ve learned that there has been an on-line debate between Nancy Creech, who is identified as a whole-language teacher, and Ken De Rosa of D-Ed Reckoning, an advocate for improving instruction using evidence and logic. The action is taking place at Edspresso, Ryan Boots’ blog for the Alliance School Choice. Here’s a direct link to the debate. There’s lots of good back-and-forth, and even more space given to comments from readers. Note that there are also comments at Mr. De Rosa’s blog entry announcing the event.
Paul Sanchez’s campaign to promote awareness of LD continues. He’s gotten a lot of links, so he’s met the goal of having been featured on 88 sites, but there’s no reason to stop at that number. If you have a blog, drop a link to 8wishes (but, beware: Paul’s site says he’s moving it, so the URL may have to be updated).
Here’s a flash of the electrons to some of the places that have links to 8wishes:
Absent Canadian, Akira Media, All My Causes, AllBusiness.com, Apogee Web Consulting, Beertjes, Beth’s Blog, Bike Liker, Bike Tourist Podcast, BizSolutionsPlus, Bonez, Brain Based Biz, Business Blogging Excellence, Carl Grint, Chaotica, Charitable Living, Charity News, ChipIn, Copy Blogger, Crash and Burn, Design Singularity, Dmitry Linkov, Douglas Karr, Fiendish Glee Club, FredCast, FrogWitch, Golden Practices, Grasping for the Wind, Highlight This, Hitchiker’s Guide, Hola! Oi Hi!, Home is where the heart is, I Speak of Dreams, I think I’m going for a walk now., Influential Foofaraw, Jeremy Latham, Jules.ca, Julia Rosien, KnowHR Blog, Liza’s eye view, Lonely Marketer, Make it Great, Matt Wiggins, Mercat, Michael.net, Miss 604, Mode Mag, MyBlogLog front page, Neowin.net, Nettie Hartsock, NewsAssigment, NextUp, Nomadik, Note to CMO, Odd Time Signature, Pentimento, Perkonis, Power of Trinity, Project Pedal, Quarter Life Crisis, Radical Trust, Raul Valdez, rkgblog, Ruminate this site, Ryan’s Life, Schwab Learning, Scot Richardson, Seth’s Blog, Seven Load, Sirberus, Socially Given, Spiked Humor, Stage6 front page, Stumble Upon, Successful Blog, Tammy Allen, Technically Speaking, Techzones, The Digital Perm, Throw Away your TV, Today Top Videos, Two Hat Marketing, Uniquely The Epitome, veritas/tic, Front page of Metacafe, Web Impact, Word Sell, Yeah Right, Yoga Coffee Outlook
When confronted with Don A. Blackerby, whose Web site says he’s “recognized as the foremost Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) authority on Learning Disabilities, including Attention Deficit Disorder”; Shannon Sumrall of Advanced Behavioral Consultants who wrote “Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Education“; and Gordon Dryden and Jeannette Vos, who have a book called The Learning Revolution that incorporates NLP to fix just about anything, it is a pleasure to know that there are senisble folks like Steven Novella in the neighborhood. Dr. Novella, who’s an academic neurologist at Yale and a principal element in the New England Skeptics Society, published a sensible commentary on NLP that I strongly encourage readers to review. He goes well beyond debunking the woo (did I spell that correctly, Liz?) and discusses why NLP persists and what it will take to make the world safe from such nonsense.
This is not an April Fools’ Day post.
No gift
Where to start…oh my, where to start?
In a publication called “7 Days” from Abu Dhabi (Dubai), I ran across a story entitled “The ‘gift’ of dyslexia” which claims that one-time super-model and Mick Jagger paramour Jerry Hall has dyslexia and considers it a gift. The article’s full of what I consider inaccuracies, but what do I know?
Continue reading ‘No gift’