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Does Your School Have a Learning Specialist?

See how your gifted or struggling learner could benefit from the support of a learning specialist.

Learning specialists identify learning styles, prescribe specific, appropriate, and practical learning strategies, and coordinate a team effort- all critical for student success. Collaboration among learning specialists and general education school personnel allows teachers to meet the needs of gifted and struggling students in the general education classroom, and improve education for all learners. Specialists and generalists combine efforts and expertise to accomplish more in the classroom. The participating staff become more knowledgeable and, therefore, more effective in their subsequent interactions with and instruction of all learners in their classrooms.

Learn more at the National Association of School Psychologists website

Check our some of our favorite interviews with top learning specialists.

Do Dyslexics make great CEO’s?

“ I want people to wish they were dyslexic. There are many positive attributes that can’t be taught that people are generally not aware of. We always write about how we’re losing human capital -- dyslexics are not able to achieve their potential because they’ve had to go around the system” Salley Shaywitz, a professor of learning development at Yale University.

Read the entire article. Talk with your children about this article as well. You never know what may inspire them!

Does this handwriting look like the works of a famous writer & philosopher?

Handwriting doesn't come easy for many people. Henry David Thoreau, born July 12,1817 obviously didn’t master his cursive handwriting. Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism.

He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending abolitionist John Brown. Thoreau’s philosophy of nonviolent resistance influenced the political thoughts and actions of such later figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never judge a literary genius by his or her “pen”. Read more about Thoreau and his works

WB Yeats.. Famous Poet.. Horrible Speller

"My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head

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-- W.B. Yeats

"Willie was sent to lessons in spelling and grammar, but he never learned to spell. To the end of his life he produced highly idiosyncratic versions of words."

-- Biographer A. Norman Jeffares on William Butler Yeats

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