When Kids Can't Read: What Teachers Can Do: A Guide for Teachers 6-12 by Kylene Beers My rating: 4 of 5 stars Dr. Beers lived a common experience of middle school, high school and early college teachers that persists today. We enter a room as content teachers and find out [...]
The 2017 New Media Consortium Higher Education Horizon report is out and here at Read Ahead, we feel validated. We have retooled literacy intervention and are well-suited for the future imagined in this report. Here's our top 5 summary of how Read Ahead aligns with the findings of the Horizon [...]
What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund My rating: 5 of 5 stars "At once (at a gulp) we readers: 1) Read a sentence... 2) Read several sentences ahead... 3) Maintain consciousness of the content of sentences we have already read... 4) Imagine events down the line." I'm [...]
Norcross, GA – The Center for Disease Control (CDC) (http://www.cdc.gov/), in partnership with the Public Health Foundation (PHF) (http://www.phf.org), invites exceptional distance learning professionals to participate as mentors in the eLearning Institute Fellowship program. The goal of this program is to help state and local health departments and public health [...]
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In Mark Quinn’s article Teach Customers Why They Need A Product Before Trying To Sell It To Them he says: “When businesses blindly assume that their prospects already have the information they need and are simply making a choice between brands, they shift from a learning-focused mindset to a [...]
Video: 2016 POD Innovation Award Winner Watch Michael Palmer from UVA's Center for Teaching Excellence and Adarsh Char from FTA win the 2016 POD Innovation Award. ***PRESS RELEASE*** Norcross, GA, February 2, 2017 – The University of Virginia (UVA) and Full Tilt Ahead, LLC (FTA) were [...]
www.ReadAhead.Education Software empowers teachers to reinforce academic language using any content Click to Enlarge: Read Ahead Version 2.0 Dashboard Norcross, Ga., January 9, 2017 — Read Ahead Version 2.0 launched with several new product enhancements designed to help elementary, middle and high school teachers maximize in-class reading time. [...]
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Check out this BYOD Read Ahead presentation for: THE MULE-BONE: A COMEDY OF NEGRO LIFE IN THREE ACTS by Langston Hughes & Zora Neale Hurston We hope you enjoy this Read Ahead presentation. You can create your own Read Ahead presentations! Read Ahead lets users create guided, focused reading activities [...]