Why Educators Need Reading Assessment Data Now More Than Ever
Watch this 20-minute video to hear Pivot Learning and Drs. Michelle Hosp and Louisa Moats discuss why, even if remote learning is still occurring, educators need to continue to assess students’ reading skills. They provide recommendations to help ensure that remote reading assessments provide the data needed to guide instruction and close gaps.
A California Charter School’s Story: How Aspire Public Schools is Digging Deep to Better Understand and Address COVID-19’s Impact on Learning
Like many districts, at the start of the 2020-21 school year, Aspire Public Schools in California wanted to understand how students and families were doing with distance learning so that they could identify gaps and develop a plan to close them. Aspire partnered with Pivot Learning and UnboundEd to use their Equity Reset Toolkit to examine the inherent biases in their past data collection as they moved forward to equitably serve all their scholars.
2 Ways to Adapt Partner Responses to Distance Learning
Partner responses may seem impossible when students are online and not sitting next to each other in a classroom but Dr. Anita Archer, author and beloved teacher of teachers, offers a few work arounds in a video conversation with Pivot Learning.
7 Tips for Building Connections When Teaching Remotely
Partner responses may seem impossible when students are online and not sitting next to each other in a classroom but Dr. Anita Archer, author and beloved teacher of teachers, offers a few work arounds in a video conversation with Pivot Learning.
5 Tips for Adapting Choral Response to Distance Learning
Love choral response to help give students with word reading difficulties more opportunities to respond but hate the noise it makes when students are responding online? Dr. Anita Archer, author and beloved teacher of teachers, demonstrates in this video how to make choral response work when teaching remotely.
3 Ways to Encourage Distance Learning Participation for Students with Word Reading Difficulties
In this recorded conversation, Dr. Anita Archer, educational consultant, author, and beloved teacher of teachers, talks about how to adapt explicit instruction for students with word reading difficulties when distance learning. Along with the video is a free downloadable tip sheet that outlines three ways to use hold ups to encourage active participation.
Equity Issues Related to Serving Students with Dyslexia
Pivot Learning’s Dr. Monica Ng and CORE’s Dr. Carrie Thomas Beck kicked off Dyslexia Awareness Month with a conversation with Dr. Sherril English, Clinical Associate Professor at Southern Methodist University, about how school systems can reduce barriers so that all students, including those experiencing difficulties with reading, can receive the support they need to become successful readers.
Tips and Tricks for Presenting Intervention Virtually for Students with Word Reading Difficulties
Whether learning in-person or remotely, students with word reading difficulties, including dyslexia, require explicit, systematic, evidence-based instruction and intervention. This hour-long video provides educators with tips and tricks for how to continue presenting high-quality reading interventions virtually. How to use a free downloadable virtual lesson planning template is presented in the video.
3 Must-Have Features of Effective In-Person or Remote Instruction for Students with Word Reading Difficulties
Whether learning in-person or remotely, students with word reading difficulties, including dyslexia, require explicit, systematic, evidence-based instruction and intervention. This hour-long video provides educators with tips and tricks for how to continue presenting high-quality reading interventions virtually. How to use a free downloadable virtual lesson planning template is presented in the video.
