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Hope for Reading Challenges: A Q & A with PLS’ Reading Intervention Program Director Since our founding, Proactive Life Skills has been dedicated to enhancing the lives of those who seek our assistance. We help individuals with neuro-developmental, anxiety and impulse control disorders to promote inclusion and boost independent potential. Our Reading Intervention Program is…

Various stages of learning will have different data requirements for measuring student progress toward criteria mastery. When a student is acquiring a skill, feedback for students and teachers is imperative for preparing lessons and shaping the skill or content knowledge toward mastery. Formative assessment is critical during this stage, where teachers should gather pretest diagnostic…

Pseudoscience and cognitive terminology is gaining a strong foothold in our schools. Brain training has become a multi-million-dollar business, and companies are getting rich from inserting their products and services into schools. Of course we want to try anything and everything we can find to be able to reach and teach our kids. But there…

I’m a mom to two teenage girls. When I tell people this, some laugh knowingly, and most offer pity. It’s an interesting twist in my life; I’ve been teaching adolescents since 2007 and have helped hundreds of parents get their teens to do homework, improve their reading and study skills and more. ​ I now…

Data used to scare me. I’m not going to lie. I’m a word person, so when I entered the education field and saw a stack of standardized test results in my box, my brain exploded. Not really, but it was a bit overwhelming. The truth is, we use data all the time to inform our…

A pilot study is something researchers do on a small scale to examine feasibility, to identify effective methods, to determine goals and to resolve problems before implementing the project on a larger scale. I am grateful to two school principals and their guidance counselor for agreeing to participate in the pilot. We are in week…