Reaching and Teaching the Whole
Child
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Children’s Health Council
A professional development site for
Presenters:
Karen Grites, M.S.
Educational Specialist and
Director of Center for
Community Education
Allison Berry, M.A.
Resource Teacher
Theuerkauf Elementary
School
All Kinds of Minds and
Schools Attuned
®
In 1995 All Kinds of Minds was co-founded by Dr. Mel
Levine and Charles Schwab with a mission to enhance the
lives of children with learning differences.
In 1996 The Children’s Health Council (CHC) in Palo Alto
became one of 7 nationally approved regional training
sites to deliver the Schools Attuned® program. This
program equips regular educators with knowledge of brain
research and learning to improve their teaching and
support of struggling students
Neurodevelopmental Constructs
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Attention
Temporal Sequential Processing
Spatial Ordering
Memory
Language
Neuromotor functioning
Social Cognition
Higher Order Cognition
Let’s try this activity
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(please note: the adult human mind is referenced, children’s acquisition of reading
skills are not necessarily implicated here)
Research about learning
•Studying right before going to sleep helps
students consolidate information most
efficiently in memory
•The tripod pencil grasp may not be the best
grip for graphomotor control for all studentsholding a pencil between the 2nd and 3rd
fingers was successfully used in Germany
•Focus objects can be helpful to students
who struggle with attention
Learning about learning
Memory
Short Term
Active Working
Long Term: Consolidation and Access
Short Term Memory
> In a moment I am going to show you a list of
words for you to remember.
> On the inside cover of your handout, be ready to
write the list of words on the next frame.
> No pencils until after the slide is removed!
> Ready?
DIGEST
HAWKING
LAUNCH
COMMUNITY
FROCK
PURSUIT
VANDALISM
DIGEST
HAWKING
LAUNCH
COMMUNITY
FROCK
PURSUIT
VANDALISM
Short Term
Exposure
Saliency Determination
Recoding
Dept/Detail of Processing
The Role of Short Term Memory
Reflections of Practice Question
> What is the role of short term memory in your
reading program, math program or writing
instruction?
Academics
Most Intensive
Special education staff
Behavior
Tier 3: 3 - 5%
- PBIS
Functional Behavior Analysis
counselors, psychs, behaviorist
Intensive instruction
Language!, High Point,
Math workshop, summer school
Behavior support plans counselors, psychs, interv. team
Tier 2: 10 - 12%
Strategic classroom instruction
Differentiation, small groups
school wide structure
& system
Tier 1: 80 - 85% of struggling students
Academics
Tier 3
Behavior
- PBIS
Attuning A Student
Tier 2
Student Learning Partnership
Small group interventions, small group demystifications
Tier 1
Schools Attuned supports through:
Lesson plan Analysis, Subject Analysis, Learning
about Learning
Online Resources
> Allkindsofminds.org website provides many
important parent resources: articles, case
studies, simulations and book excerpts
> The learningbase offers public domain
information about strategies for struggling
learners
Schools Attuned
> The Schools Attuned Program embraces that struggling
students can respond to instruction once their strengths,
weaknesses, and needs are understood through a
carefully-managed process in their classrooms.
> The Schools Attuned Program is focused on supporting
the ways that students in all classrooms respond to
instruction. RtI is supported across all tiers with Schools
Attuned.
> The Schools Attuned Program equips educators with a
step by step problem solving process by arming them
with knowledge, skills and tools to address interventions
as student needs increase