All Kinds of Minds is pleased to announce that our website has been updated with a brand new structure and design. We’ve streamlined the navigation and structured the content to provide you with a better user experience. Your Go-To Source for Learning about Learning While the site has a new look, you’ll still be able to access the same great … Read More
One School’s Faculty-wide Exploration of Schools for All Kinds of Minds
By Mary Mannix, Guest Blogger Last spring, administrators at Indian Creek School, an All Kinds of Minds School of Distinction, searched for a book for summer reading for the faculty that would be meaningful and relevant to teachers across all three divisions of the school, from pre-kindergarten to 12th grade. Why Schools for All Kinds of Minds? Administrators chose Schools … Read More
Embrace What’s Going Right to Pave a Better Road to Learning
By Michele Robinson, Director of Special Projects at All Kinds of Minds and co-author of Schools for All Kinds of Minds Grab a pen or pencil. Off the top of your head, list 3-4 of your strengths – those things you do well with relative ease. Now list 3-4 affinities – those activities or topics you love to do or … Read More
Celebrate World Teachers’ Day – TODAY!
Today, October 5th, is World Teachers’ Day – a day of recognition created by UNESCO in 1994 to celebrate teachers worldwide. Its aim is to mobilize support for teachers and to ensure that the needs of future generations will continue to be met by teachers. We couldn’t let this day go by without acknowledgement. In honor of World Teachers’ Day, … Read More
Teachers: What’s Your Framework?
By Craig Pohlman, Ph.D., Co-author of Schools for All Kinds of Minds and Director of MindMatters at Southeast Psych, a learning program in Charlotte, NC In some circles, All Kinds of Minds has become equated with the neurodevelopmental framework it uses, but this framework is only one aspect of their approach to understand learning and learners. All Kinds of Minds is … Read More
‘Waiting for Superman’ — How do we rescue education in America?
Waiting for Superman has sparked more conversation about our public schools than any other event in recent memory. While there’s much food for thought, at All Kinds of Minds we are interested in the reactions people are having to how the core business of schooling–LEARNING–is portrayed. Tell us what you think about this controversial movie and the discussion it is … Read More
Building Schools for All Kinds of Minds
In our recently-published book, Schools for All Kinds of Minds: Boosting Student Success by Embracing Learning Variation, our CEO Mary-Dean Barringer makes the point that “Educators, school leaders and policymakers … talk around learning but not about learning,” and she notes that equipping educators with current knowledge from science about how we are wired to learn is essential to the … Read More
Facebook Back-to-School Question of the Week #2
To help get you in the back-to-school spirit – and maybe pick up some great ideas along the way – we recently started a Back-to-School Question of the Week series on Facebook. This is an opportunity for you to share your thoughts with your virtual colleagues around some key back-to-school questions. We wanted to share some of these responses with … Read More
Summer Blog Series Post #7: The Role of Graphomotor Function in Handwriting
In last week’s post, we discussed the demands of revising written work. Today, we’re going to focus on a different aspect of writing: handwriting. Many people, adults and children alike, struggle with penmanship. The ability to use computers to convey ideas can help minimize the need for handwriting and relieve handwriting-challenged individuals from the frustration of writing in some cases. … Read More
Summer Blog Series Post #5: The Role of Spatial Ordering in Understanding Math Symbols
The results of our recent poll are in! You, our readers, expressed a strong interest in hearing about learning challenges related to math … so in response, this week’s blog is about the spatial ordering demands involved in understanding math symbols. Thank you to everyone who participated in our poll. We love the feedback. In developing an understanding of mathematical … Read More
