Brain Fitness Webinar: Disrupting Class

• January 19, 2010 by Denise Ruvalcaba

Michael Horn spoke about disruptive innovation in the classroom at one of our live webinars in early October.  If you missed the live webinar, you can catch a replay via our brain fitness podcasts.  Horn is co-author of the influential book Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns.

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Categories: Brain Fitness, Education Trends

Tags: Disrupting Class, innovation, Michael Horn, webinar

Liberty Public Schools Improves Missouri Assessment Program (MAP) Scores

• January 12, 2010 by Denise Ruvalcaba

Over the last three years, Liberty Public Schools has steadily improved MAP scores and Franklin Elementary has achieved even greater gains. From 2008 to 2009, the percentage of Franklin Elementary students scoring at the proficient level or above on the MAP jumped from 65 percent to 82 percent in communication arts, and from 69 percent to 80 percent in mathematics. According to Dr. Barbara Wippich, curriculum and instruction intervention coordinator for the LPS, Fast ForWord® and Reading Assistant™ software have played a big role in the district's success.  Click here to view case study

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Categories: Fast ForWord, Reading & Learning, Reading Assistant

Tags: assessments, elementary learning, MAP, Missouri, increased test scores

Reading Intervention and Brain Fitness: One School's Story

• January 7, 2010 by Denise Ruvalcaba

Penn-Trafford High School in Harrison City, PA, had a problem: some of their adolescent students were not engaging at school, and many of those students were struggling readers.  The school shifted its reading intervention efforts from building reading skills to building a reading-ready brain with Fast ForWord® software.

The plan worked.  Students using the Fast ForWord software gained 1.1 years in reading skill levels, on average, in just 30 days.  And there were other benefits, including increased attendance, improved behavior, and better engagement in classes.  The story, The Reading-Ready Brain, appeared in the December 2009 edition of Principal Leadership magazine.

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Categories: Brain Fitness, Brain Research, Education Trends, Fast ForWord, Reading & Learning

Tags: academic problems, academic success, attention, brain plasticity, cognitive skills, high school learning, memory, processing rate, reading intervention, sequencing

Welcome to the Science of Learning Blog

• January 5, 2010 by Denise Ruvalcaba

Hello and welcome to The Science of Learning blog, providing information to educators, parents, scientists, and academics on the science of brain plasticity and ways to accelerate learning for children and adults.

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Categories: Brain Fitness, Brain Research, Education Funding, Grants, and Stimulus, Education Trends, English Language Learners, Fast ForWord, Progress Tracker, Reading & Learning, Reading Assistant, Scientific Learning Research, Special Education

Tags: accelerate learning, brain plasticity, how adults learn, how children learn, learning to read