Meeting minutes are in the quickplace: (click link) https://learn.sd41.bc.ca/QuickPlace/fastforword/PageLibrary882574D40067F957.nsf/h_1F0FC0136B7F700A882574D400681E75/702FE4EB3A489009882576E900653C47/?OpenDocument Full Participant meeting – April 13, 2010, Byrne Creek, Centre for Dialogue
Support with Destination Success – Reading
I’ve posted about Destination Reading before but it seems like a good time to bring it up again. Especially since most of you are on the home stretch with many of your students completing the first two products and enrolling a new batch. Your students have been involved with an intensive program to retrain those parts of…
Reading connections or Give Me a Bridge?
How do we help students with their reading in the classroom or in LSS while they are moving through Fast ForWord? There are times when having access to the same reading materials as everyone else is important. Especially true when you wish to practice comprehension and engage in group discussions. Although there are many options available to…
Important RPI ISSUES Affecting Data
Hi Everyone, PLEASE READ! If you are having issues with the RPI launching consistently and some of our sites are showing up with multiple archiving tending to corrupt and fragment the data files — please see the steps below. STEPS TO FOLLOW:
Closing Instructions for Winter Break…
Hi Everyone, Please ARCHIVE your student data and power off your computers for winter break. Thank you for all your hard work in supporting our students and see you all in January.
Adding to knowledge…
Hi Everyone, Here’s an article to dwell upon from the Auditory Neuroscience Lab at Northwestern University – published Nov. 2009. This slideshow is a presentation on background noise and language impairment (dyslexia). ( Auditory Neuroscience Lab ) What do you think?
What’s Up with Those Flags!
On Tues Nov 17th, we met at Schou – TLC to familiarize ourselves with some of the reports of Progress Tracker and what to do with interventions. The Condensed Report provide an overview of days participated, and percentage of each exercised completed as well as when flags will appear. Individual Progress reports provided an detailed…
HELP – FAQ
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Conference powerpoints and notes…reviewing learning
The moment you’ve been waiting for… some of the powerpoints have come in. Click on the following titles to download the presentations from the BC Circle of Learning Conference. Keynote – Sherrelle Walker: Changing Lives with Fast ForWord Keynote – Tony Herdman: Neuroimaging of Reading Workshop – (Sherrelle Walker): Best Practices for Administrators Workshop…
First Western Canadian Circle of Learning Conference – A Success!
A whirlwind of activities, learning and conversations happened throughout the conference on October 23rd at Byrne Creek (Burnaby). From the participants flying past me in hallways, stairways and rooms, comments were tossed in the air about how timely this was, how much they were making connections to what they were doing or not doing, and…
Regional Circle of Learning Conference – Oct. 23, 2009
Next week, we’ll be at the Circle of Learning Conference hosted by Burnaby School District and Scientific Learning out at beautiful Byrne Creek Secondary. Registration is full. Our agenda is packed with information on brain neuroscience, hands-on workshops on Fast ForWord and Progress Tracker. We’re going to be actively engaging our brains in multiple ways and have…
Process for Deleting Student Data
For those of you in the middle of cleaning up your student information, please refer to the HOW TO’s page (click on Deleting Student Data). This will ensure that your data is removed not only from your local computer station but also from Progress Tracker. Please email me if you are unclear about the steps…
Advisory Committee Meeting
Advisory Committee: please click below for the following: (*You will need to log in.) Advisory Meeting Minutes (October 7, 2009) Conference List of Action Items (TO DO) for Oct 23rd
And We’re Off …
On Oct 1st and 2nd, we hosted 2 days of Fast ForWord training with Tom Chapin (Trainer Extraordinaire from Arkansas!) from Scientific Learning. What a marathon of excitement and possibilities! Our brains certainly had a workout and Tom’s stories kept us in stitches. Focus on the 1st was on secondary (Burnaby Mountain, Byrne Creek, Fraser Park)…
Calling all 2nd-3rd year sites . . .
Now that the year has started, it’s time to take a breath and gather together to figure out those nitty gritty processes and chat about “going deeper” and what’s next… Our network meeting is Thursday September 24th at Schou (TLC) 3:30-5:00.