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  Mary Dean Barringer

The school year may be winding down, but we here at All Kinds of Minds are busier than ever! In May alone our web site flourished! We launched the AKOMblog and the Learning Landscape, implemented a Neurodevelopmental Framework and added more alumni to the Community for Learning! More than 165 Schools Attuned Courses are scheduled around the globe this summer—reaching an additional 4200 teachers!

For those interested in exploring the way our school districts and state governments think about struggling students and how to reach them, visit our new resources dedicated to Education Policy and Response to Intervention.

You can find information on all of this, and more, in the newsletter below. Have a wonderful month and good luck with your end-of-year activities!

 
Mary-Dean Barringer
CEO, All Kinds of Minds
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Community for Learning — still growing! In addition to daily new forum posts on various topics and expanded teacher resources, the Community for Learning now has nearly 1200 members—with new teachers joining every day. Since its launch in January, the Community for Learning has established itself as a place for Schools Attuned Alumni to share questions, research and strategies about implementing the Schools Attuned Program in their classrooms.

The latest research reviews on the Temporal Sequential construct are now available. Understanding time and the sequence of various items or pieces of information is a key component of learning.
Explore in depth:
Sequential Awareness and Perception
Sequential Memory
Sequential Output
Time Management
Higher Sequential Thinking

These one-page helpful hint handouts were created just for parents. Each Tip Sheet covers a school-related topic and provides practical tips to help parents support their children at home.
Available Tip Sheet PDFs:
Homework
Learning to Relate to Others
Parent-Teacher Communication

The upcoming summer vacation should serve as a blank canvas that an artist can fill. What a child or adolescent does and accomplishes during an extended vacation says so much about who they are and what they are becoming. Read More about a Balanced Summer.

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All Kinds of Minds will exhibit at the 2008 Making Ohio Schools Work Conference in Columbus, Ohio where over 750 school administrators will participate in workshops, visit booths and network with their colleagues. Stop by our booth June 17th or 18th to learn more about our programs and services that are available to Ohio educators. For additional information visit the School Improvement Conference online.

Join us in Nashville for the 22nd annual Southern Regional Education Board’s High Schools That WorkStaff Development Conference. We will exhibit at Booth #108, July 9-12. More than 8,000 educators and community partners are expected to attend from across the United States. The focus is on increasing high school completion rates and post secondary workplace success of students. Learn more by visiting www.sreb.org.

The National Conference on Differentiated Instruction sponsored by the Staff Development for Educators takes place in Las Vegas, Nevada July 20th -23rd.  This conference provides K-12 educators the chance to swap ideas and strategies used for differentiated instruction in the classroom. For more information, Visit the program online. If you’re in the area, come see us at Booth #83!

AKOMblog! This month we welcome Kitty Hawk Elementary School as our featured blogger. Read about their experiences, successes and challenges with Schools Attuned Implementation.

 
 

 
 

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Education Policy. This new section on our web site keeps you informed about issues affecting federal, state and local education policy. The first topic being studied in depth is Response to Intervention (RtI). In addition to information about how each state is implementing RtI, you can find links to resources that will help you better understand RtI and its connection to Schools Attuned.

In honor of Teacher Appreciation Month we asked you to submit a note recognizing a memorable teacher in your life or the life of a loved one. Congratulations to Mr. Spowart from Brandeis Hillel Day School (San Francisco, California) , Ms. Dickman of PS/IS 266 (Bellerose, New York), and Mrs. Colburn of Marshall Middle School (Billerica, Massachusetts).

Read what they had to say…

Learning Landscape presents regularly posted brief articles by scholars and experts on neurodevelopmental concepts and issues. Available now are "The Thinking behind Interacting with Others" and "A Neurodevelopmental Take on Executive Functions." Learning Landscape allows readers to post comments, so please join the conversation! Readers may also sign up for notifications of new posts and comments.
 
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