Lets Go Learn Showcases LGL Math EDGE on iPad at TASA/TASB
If you're at the TASA/TASB conference in Austin this week, stop by the Let's Go Learn booth. Ask Scott Griego or Ronnie Wolfe to show you our prescriptive math solution LGL Math EDGE running on an iPad using the Photon browser.
Speaking Out Against Graduation Exams
Educators and school board members alike are speaking out against the proposed graduation exam requirements in Pennsylvania. With the number of benchmark assessments on the rise across the country, there are many who feel that assessments are the only way to ho...
CERA Conference and Common Core in Reflection
After attending the CERA (California Educational Research Association) conference, which focused on the Common Core, this past Thursday and Friday, I noticed a significant shift from 6 months ago in educators perspectives. The Common Core standards adop...
Response to Intervention: What You Need to Know
Whatever your political leanings may be, you can probably see the argument that NCLB has in many ways been good for low-achieving students. Titles 1 & 3, among others, have channeled funds directly toward students who need help, whether during the day...
How can my district prepare for the new Common Core State Standards online test?
Last weekend I presented at the California Math Council conference in Asilomar, California, and a month earlier at the councils Palms Spring conference. I presented on the technology implications of the new Smarter Bal...
The End of Print as We Know It?
As far as reading goes, while I still read books, I now spend copious amounts of time reading material on the Internet - much more than I do reading from the pages of reference books or magazines. It's amazing to me that in fewer than a dozen years of my life, my exp...
Out of Control
It's bad enough that children are increasingly losing control over their personal opinions and insights for the sake of making the right scores on high-stakes tests. It's awful when they become ill over it--when it's not about educating children as much as it is about controlling the...
Retention can spell failure: Use Lets Go Learn to support early intervention and literacy
Should 3rd grade students who don't score at grade level on high stakes tests be retained or promoted? Research shows that while retention may have a positive, short term effect, it may also lead to dropping ou...
CERA Conference and Common Core in Reflection
After attending the CERA (California Educational Research Association) conference, which focused on the Common Core, this past Thursday and Friday, I noticed a significant shift from 6 months ago in educators perspectives. The Common Core standards adop...
Why Doesnt my Child Have Phonemic Awareness Skills?
While practicing word play with my son, I became aware that he was lacking some phonemic awareness skills, in particular the ability to segment sounds in a word. The National Reading Panel reports that instructing children in how to hear, identify...
Help Them Prepare but Let Them Perform: A Striking Realization
I am a helicopter parent, and I am not alone. Lisa Belkin, a blogger for the New York Times, admits to many of the same tendencies I exhibit. This school year I am determined to let go of the reins a little. I want to do my best to he...
Why Doesnt my Child Have Phonemic Awareness Skills?
While practicing word play with my son, I became aware that he was lacking some phonemic awareness skills, in particular the ability to segment sounds in a word. The National Reading Panel reports that instructing children in how to hear, identify...
Redefining the Fundamental Infrastructures of Schools to Reflect Todays Technologies
Today, the resources that support schools are very different from what they were even 20 years ago. It is probably safe to say that most schools have telephone systems, a computer-based library check-out system, co...
How can my district prepare for the new Common Core State Standards online test?
Last weekend I presented at the California Math Council conference in Asilomar, California, and a month earlier at the councils Palms Spring conference. I presented on the technology implications of the new Smarter Bal...