Last month I shared with you that aha! Process would be hosting a group of educators from the United Kingdom, specifically Reading, England, who had been selected to come to Texas to observe the American education system and some of our best practices, including aha! Process strategies and work. What an incredible week we had! [...]
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Last week Patti, a kindergarten teacher in the Menominee Indian School District, made my day by sharing a recent occurrence in her classroom: Patti taught both signs for the letter c—the soft and the hard c—to her students, wondering if the five-year olds would understand and remember the concept. Later, during calendar time, she pointed [...]
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As most students have headed back to the classroom or soon will be arriving, I am wondering how much has changed over the summer for many of these students. Do their parents still have jobs? Were there significant changes in the family structure that have impacted their lives? How many of them spent most of [...]
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As most students have headed back to the classroom or soon will be arriving, I am wondering how much has changed over the summer for many of these students. Do their parents still have jobs? Were there significant changes in the family structure that have impacted their lives? How many of them spent most of [...]
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Last week I had the privilege of visiting the Menominee Indian Nation with Dr. Payne. Many of you know that aha! Process has been working with educators in the Menominee Indian School District, a Wisconsin public school district, and community agencies in the past several years. In fact, they are leaders in implementing our school [...]
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Increasing numbers of attendees at Tucker Signing Strategies workshops are teachers of English language learners. Many report having heard from colleagues that the strategy can help students learn to speak, read, and write English faster and more easily than traditional programs alone.
Reasons why Tucker Signing Strategies can help students to learn the language more easily [...]
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“I get it!”
This is what Juvenile Court Judge Wendell Askenette said to a crowd of Menominee Indian community leaders in reference to the Collaboration for Kids initiative being undertaken in the Menominee Indian School District. I was glad to hear him say, “I get it!” because I was about to present a training to these [...]
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Kim contacted us in July and was interested in translating Appendix E in the Learning Structures: Modules 8–13 workbook into Polish. She lives in Nebraska and travels to Poland a couple of times a year to work with social workers there.
What is Appendix E? It is Dr. Payne’s article “Understanding Poverty and Working with Students [...]
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The Journey of Al and Gebra to the Land of Algebra is a fictitious story that explains algebraic concepts. Throughout its development I focused on the skills, and I perceived the product to be, in essence, a series of skills tied together with a story.
Since its publication, however, the feedback that I have received from [...]
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Summer is here! For many, summer is a time off. For others, it simply means a different job or the same job without the students present. One of the critical elements of working in education is finding the balance needed to continue to effectively. Educators must take time to renew the mind, refresh the body, [...]
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