Concentration
March 10, 2016
Yesterday, March 8 2016, was International Women’s Day. A very good (male) friend put up a Facebook post today saying that International Women’s Day was supposed […]
March 3, 2016
A few weeks ago, my cousin Trish was visiting from Dublin. Trish is a Montessori teacher and as you can imagine, it didn’t take long for […]
February 25, 2016
In 1948, Edward William Dolch PhD, of the University of Illinois, in his book ‘Problems in Reading’ identified a list of words that he believed to […]
January 15, 2016
This time of year is not just the ‘season to be jolly’ but also parent/teacher meetings season, so I thought I’d write again about STEN & […]
November 9, 2015
In an ideal world, school would be an amazing, productive, happy place where enthusiastic educators nurtured young minds & taught them to love learning. Most of […]
October 13, 2015
Whenever someone tells me that they are dyslexic, I always say ‘Hi Dyslexic, I’m Elaine’. Usually they’ll look at me quizzically and say ‘no – I […]