Bay Tree Learning

10/14/2020

**Can you help us? We're looking for insights from parents who have helped their child who struggles to read!**

Ross and I are working together to combine our backgrounds of technology and educational therapy to provide more equal access to educational interventions for struggling learners. We believe that literacy should be accessible to every child — even those who require specialized support.

We're just getting started and we want to make sure we're building something that actually helps. I've only come at reading intervention from the specialist's perspective, and I want to understand it from the parents' side. Are there any parents who helped their kids and could help me cut through the fog? What were your challenges? What's still hard? What were your breakthrough tools?

08/26/2016

http://ow.ly/O5uQ303CtNI Great tips for managing back-to-school stress for kids with LD.

Teachers and parents can help kids regulate, shift, and stabilize their energy and mood, allowing for a little more silence and a little more focus.

08/08/2016

New Post: "Teaching Math to Students with LD and ADHD: Interview with Adena Young, Ph.D." on BayTreeBlog.com.

Introduction Earlier this year, our local group of educational therapists hosted Dr. Adena Young. Dr. Young is a school and educational psychologist with a private practice in Oakland, California. She works one-on-one with students, provides neuropsychological evaluations, and consults with teachers...

07/05/2016

New Post: "How to End Number Switching" on BayTreeBlog.com.

Talk to any kindergarten teacher, and she’ll tell you about her students who transpose numbers. Two-digit numbers puzzle many younger students. It’s not unusual to hear students confusing the numbers “13” and “31” or writing the number “14” as “41.” This common mistake is sometimes called a transpos...

04/12/2016

New Post: "Webinar: Help Kids Understand What They Read" on BayTreeBlog.com.

I’m excited to share this free, 50-minute class on understanding and teaching reading comprehension. Originally recorded live for Learning Ally, we’ve rerecorded the webinar so you can watch anytime. In this dynamic, practical session, you’ll learn proven strategies to unlock children’s reading comprehension. Together, we’ll explore the best tools and strategies for helping children understand, …

03/17/2016

New Post: "Reading Comprehension Round-Up: Top Educators Reveal Top Tools" on BayTreeBlog.com.

Comprehension is the pinnacle of reading success and essential for academic achievement. It’s also, arguably, one of the most difficult skills to teach. When I started teaching, I knew how to teach exactly one reading strategy. As you can imagine, only teaching kids to visualize didn’t work real well. Before long, most of my students …

01/26/2016

How to help our students who say, "I'm not a math person" http://ow.ly/XyufL

Why students develop an aversion to mathematics — and how teachers can help change their minds.

12/15/2015

Top 10 Graphic Novels 2015 from http://ow.ly/VUBvh

Selected by the Good Comics for Kids bloggers, these graphic novels published in 2015 are the cream of the crop.

11/17/2015

How Italians educate kids with learning disabilities differently.

"The majority of students we consider “disabled” in the U.S. — those with relatively mild learning difficulties — are simply part of a wider range of what it means to be a “regular” student in Italy, albeit ones who may require some level of individualized support or accommodation." http://ow.ly/ULlR7

Italy has a long history of including students with disabilities in general education classes. Their efforts offer unique perspectives and...

11/10/2015

The dinner table as one of the best ways to build a young child's . http://ow.ly/UtOPz from

Promoting literacy with dinnertime storytelling, family conversation, and books about food.

11/03/2015

Start intervention early! http://ow.ly/Ucw3A

Identifying children with dyslexia as early as first grade could narrow or even close the achievement gap with typical readers, according to a new...

10/21/2015

"I wish I had someone helping me to understand that there were many, many other just like me... I wish I had had somebody in my life to do intervention to get me through those rough years." http://ow.ly/TGtVr

In September, Steven Spielberg gave this exclusive interview to "Friends of Quinn." I think a lot of people will find it motivational. Find more...