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 Revealing Minds: Assessing to Understand and Support Struggling Learners
Craig Polhman, Ph.D.
Revealing Minds is a practical, hands-on guide to assessing learning problems based on the All Kinds of Minds approach. Providing scores of real-life examples, definitions of key terms, helpful diagrams, tables, and sample assessments, Pohlman offers a useful roadmap for educators, psychologists, and other professionals to implement the All Kinds of Minds approach in their own assessments.
How Can My Kid Succeed in School? What Parents and Teachers Can Do to Conquer Learning Problems
Craig Polhman, Ph.D.
This practical resource for parents and teachers explains how to understand a child's complete learning profile and provides helpful strategies that can be used at school and at home to get the child on a path to success. Pohlman shows how parents and teachers can collaborate to help kids become successful learners, and also guides readers through the process of getting an educational assessment, for those students with particularly challenging issues.
The New Science of Teaching and Learning: Using the Best of Mind, Brain, and Education Science in the Classroom
Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosas
This book provides a fascinating review of state-of-the-art research. It debunks learning myths while pointing towards tried and true tenets and principles of education. Each instructional guideline in the book is accompanied by real-life classroom examples to help teachers envision the direct application of the information in their own schools. The author offers essential tools for evaluating new information as it flows from research and adds to what we know.
Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School
John Medina
Medina, a developmental molecular biologist, presents readers with a dozen good principles on how the brain works and how we can use them to our benefit at home and work.
Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture
Kirsten Olson
Kirsten Olson brings to light the devastating consequences of an educational approach that values conformity over creativity, flattens student's interests, and dampens down differences among learners. Olson shows that current institutional structures do not produce the kinds of minds and thinking that society really needs and offers suggestions for what teachers, parents, and students can do right now to “stay healthy.”
A Mind at a Time
Mel Levine, M.D.
This book explains how to identify individual learning patterns in children and maximize their success in life. In A Mind at a Time he shows us how.
Discussion questions for A Mind at a Time
The Myth of Laziness
Mel Levine, M.D.
As it explores the dysfunctions that result in output failure, this book uncovers some of the principal ingredients of successful output.
Discussion questions for The Myth of Laziness
Ready or Not, Here Life Comes
Mel Levine, M.D.
This book focuses on the way in which we need to go about preparing kids for the real world and career success.
Developing Minds
All Kinds of Minds and WGBH Boston
This multimedia library fosters a thorough understanding of differences in learning and the process for working with each child's unique learning profile.
The ANSER System (Aggregate Neurobehavioral Student Health and Educational Review)
Mel Levine, M.D.
Designed for use by clinicians and educators, the ANSER system consists of questionnaires to be completed by parents, school personnel, and students themselves. It spans three age groups (3-5 years, 6-11 years, and 12+ years) and covers topics such as family history, health problems, early development, early educational experience, skills and interests, attention control problems, and associated strengths. Supplemental materials are included.
The Four Neurodevelopmental Examinations (PEET, PEER, PEEX 2, PEERAMID 2)
Mel Levine, M.D.
The four neurodevelopmental examinations (PEET, PEER, PEEX 2, and PEERAMID 2) are combined neurodevelopmental-behavioral assessments designed to be administered by health-care professionals. The PEET is for 3-year-old children; the PEER is for 4 to 6 -year-olds; the PEEX 2 is for children between the ages of 6 and 9; and the PEERAMID 2 is for children between the ages of 9 and 15.
STRANDS (The Survey of Teenage Readiness and Neurodevelopmental Status)
Mel Levine, M.D. and Stephen R. Hooper, Ph.D.
The Survey of Teenage Readiness and Neurodevelopmental Status (STRANDSis an assessment tool that provides an overview of an adolescent's own perceptions of his or her functioning and performance strategies across a variety of neurocognitive and psychosocial domains. It provides clues and guidance to the clinician, counselor, teacher, or researcher about how students ages 13 to 19 process information and function in school.
All Kinds of Minds
Mel Levine, M.D.
This book was written to help children in the elementary grades (7-11 years old) understand how they learn and how they may have different strengths and weaknesses in some areas of learning.
Jarvis Clutch – Social Spy
Mel Levine, M.D.
Jarvis's spy notes provide a bird's eye view of the often traumatic social experiences that middle school students are bound to encounter.
Keeping a Head in School
Mel Levine, M.D.
This book was written to help older students (from 11 years and up) understand and appreciate their own distinct learning profiles.
The Mind that's Mine
Mel Levine, M.D.
In The Mind That’s Mine, you’ll find out about all the things that go on inside your head when you’re thinking and learning. Once you understand how your mind works, you’ll find out how you can help it work even better.
Misunderstood Minds
PBS has created a companion Web site to the Misunderstood Minds special on learning differences. Within the site are stories from the show and information and resources for parents.
SparkTop.org
SparkTop.org™ is the first website created expressly for kids with learning difficulties, including learning disabilities (LD) and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD). By educating kids about learning, helping them recognize their strengths, showcasing their creativity and offering safe ways for kids to connect with one another, SparkTop.org can help children gain confidence and insight about themselves and how they learn.
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