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Grow Your Mind
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The Power of Optimizing Strengths
What if instead of focusing on deficits, interventions and accommodations, we focused on student strengths and allowed students agency in their education so they can learn to leverage their own strengths?
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Keywords are NOT the Key
I was asked to consult on a student Individualized Education Program (IEP) this week and it got me thinking about a presentation I gave a couple of years ago on the work of Karen Karp, Sarah Bush and Barbara Dougherty. They wrote an amazing article in Teaching Children Mathematics (Vol. 25, No. 7) entitled “Avoiding the Ineffective Keyword Strategy.”
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