Classical Charter Schools’ Post

📚The Importance of Summer Reading for Children📚 ☀️Summer reading is essential for children as it helps to maintain and enhance their literacy skills during the school break. Research has shown that children who engage in reading over the summer are less likely to experience the "summer slide🛝," a decline in reading ability and other academic skills. At 🎓Drdanielle-writes, we believe that encouraging emergent readers—those just beginning to understand the fundamentals of reading—to dive into 📚 during the summer can foster a lifelong love of reading❤️. 📖Reading during the summer not only prevents learning loss but also promotes cognitive development, increases vocabulary, and enhances comprehension skills. It provides children with the opportunity to explore new worlds🌏, understand different perspectives, and stimulate their imaginations. By integrating reading into their daily summer activities, children can build a solid foundation for academic success and personal growth, setting them up for a brighter future. Drdanielle-writes.com supports and advocates for summer reading programs to help emergent readers develop a strong reading habit💫. Visit our website for more tips and resources. www.drdanielle-writes.com

The Vital Importance of Early Reading Habits in Children In today's digital age, instilling strong reading habits in children from an early age is more critical than ever. Beyond being a fundamental skill, reading serves as a gateway to knowledge, imagination, and critical thinking. Studies consistently show that children exposed to books and reading from a young age tend to perform better academically. Reading fosters emotional and social development, nurturing empathy and interpersonal skills. Moreover, it sparks creativity and imagination, allowing children to explore endless possibilities. Parents, educators, and caregivers play a crucial role in creating a reading-friendly environment, filled with engaging books and encouragement. By prioritizing reading habits in the formative years, we equip children with the tools they need to thrive academically, emotionally, and intellectually throughout their lives. Let's open the doors to the magical world of books and guide our children towards a future filled with knowledge, empathy, and boundless imagination.

Nine Tips for How Parents Can Jumpstart a Reading for Pleasure Habit this Summer... (Incidentally, a habit of reading for pleasure is highly correlated with test-taking acuity and academic success.)

Great article highlighting the importance of high-quality curricula as key component to improving student progress.

When students read classic and contemporary texts together, they use high-level thinking to determine similarities and differences in style, structure, and essential truths. Paired texts provide relevance and open entry points to new ideas and cultures. Check out this new free resource guide. #teamprh Penguin Random House Education Penguin Random House #secondary #ELA

This Blog notes that most school leaders don’t fully understand the science-to-practice of Social-Emotional Learning (SEL)—explaining why many of their SEL activities are not resulting in the social, emotional, and behavioral student actions, interactions, and reactions they desire. Similarly, most schools are teaching students emotional self-control or self-regulation in ways that ignore the neurobehavioral and psychological research-to-practice. Thus, this Blog describes the science-to-practice blueprint needed to teach all students emotional self-control. We describe the components; neuro-physiological and psychological science; Emotional Control Paradigm; and how to condition self-control through social skills training. Implicit in this process is the goal of conditioning students to “Think before they Act”--counteracting the neurophysiology that results, emotionally, when they “Act before they Think.” To end the Blog, we show a 4th Grade video clip showing some of the components discussed, and provide a link to a free 35-minute webinar that expands on this topic and describes our 16-module on-line/on-demand “Teaching Students Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Skills” course. Read this important Blog. What do you think? https://conta.cc/46xzdQQ

Maximizing the Benefits of Science of Reading. This brief outlines ways to ensure positive impacts of reading instruction. https://rpb.li/fur

What's the biggest difference between educational research and what actually happens in the classroom? I asked this question of Grant Atkins, Education Research Director at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He said there isn't a huge gap between educational research and teacher practice, and that for the most part teachers know what they should be doing and act on that knowledge. Go teachers! The biggest gap, he continued, is between what the general public *thinks* is happening in education and the research-backed practices that teachers bring daily to the classroom. People often forget how complex learning can be and try to oversimplify or politicize what they think should be happening in schools. Teachers, meanwhile, shut their door and keep doing what they do best. This presents some opportunities. 1. Let's remember to defer to teachers like the experts that they are. 2. Let's work together to educate the public about what it means to educate, one conversation at a time. These insights and more on the latest episode of Make It Mindful with my cohosts Lauren Pinto and Komal Shah.

Yesterday I wrote about "E," who's actually a composite, and today I'm writing about another "E," who's just one person. This E is a very experienced teacher who recently moved to a different Place and started teaching at a very different School ... and it's hard in ways that she hadn't been expecting. What's really hard, though, is seeing the hidden gifts, especially the ones that her seventh- and eighth-graders bring with them. The surface challenges are obvious, and if you work with middle-school- or junior-high-aged kids, you know about those. But the hidden gifts? And the hopes that are wrapped up in those gifts? And figuring out how to help the students unwrap and share them ... and how to bring your own hidden gifts out as well? That's the challenge! But good news: there's hope. And if you know a teacher who's struggling with this – or if you are that teacher – we can start with that hope, find those gifts, and change your teaching world for the better. https://lnkd.in/eZM7gwM6