Reaching Struggling Learners
Reaching Struggling Learners is dedicated to helping teachers, parents, and administrators assist all students in meeting their learning potential. We discuss topics related to education, especially helping struggling or non-standard learners including students with special needs. We discuss the educational issues and present possible strategies or solutions.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 15 minutes
- Episodes
- 93
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2024
#73 Unraveling the Mystery Behind Student's Reading Struggles
What if the answer to a student's reading struggle was hidden in plain sight? Join me, Jessica Curtis of Teaching Struggling Learners, as we unravel the mystery behind identifying the r…
#72 Why Reading Comprehension Interventions Aren't Working
Last week we talked about how reading comprehension and the fight to increase reading skills and all of the interventions the math interventions the reading interventions all of these t…
#71 Have We Gone Too Far With Reading Interventions?
Do you remember how much fun it was to learn about the solar system, plants or the states of matter? I can still remember doing experiments in my elementary classrooms, as well as learn…
#70 How I Created an Intervention Plan that Changed my Teaching Forever
Obviously I talk a lot about intervention plans, how important they are and how effective they can be…but I didn’t always have a good intervention plan, or quite frankly an intervention…
#69 How to Set Up Your Progress Monitoring Interventions Over the Summer
Summer is the perfect time to get ahead of setting up your progress monitoring interventions! This week, we talk about how to get things all set up to save yourself some headache when t…
#68 Kids and Teachers Need Connections to Be Successful
Last week, I was talking to a friend of mine who teaches high school and she is one of the most caring teachers I have ever met. The amount of time that this woman spends worrying about…
#67 The Complete Guide to Managing a Caseload With Progress Monitoring
Special education teachers know that managing a caseload is a lot more than just tracking dates. It includes writing and teaching goals. Then, don’t forget to collect data on those goal…
#66 The Ultimate Caseload Manager Checklist
They say that special education teachers are a “different breed” and maybe they are right, whoever “they” is. The fact is that special education teachers juggle so much every day…every …
#65 5 Steps to Easily Progress Monitor Math Goals
So, you have MTSS in your school, and there are several students in your class who are struggling in reading, and they are receiving the interventions that they need to make progress. B…
#64 Why Small Group Phonics Instruction is Important
The last few weeks, we’ve been talking about phonological awareness, and how important it is to drill down to the most basic skill deficit to make real progress in reading for our strug…
#63 Why Small Group Phonological Awareness is Important
Last week we talked about the difference between phonological awareness and phonics.
This week, we are going to extend that conversation into talking about how to set up and manage phon…
#62 Starting the New Year with Progress Monitoring
We all know that if we don't start the year with it, we aren't going to do it.
So this year, let's start with progress monitoring so that we can be confident in what we do all year long…
# 61 Phonological Awareness and Phonics
Phonological awareness and phonics are two different things, but many teachers get confused between the 2. While the terms are not interchangeable, they do have some similarities.
Today …
#60 Managing a Caseload of SMART Goals
I don’t know about you, but every time I’ve sat in PD about SMART goals, they spend a lot of time talking about the making of goals and sharing the information afterward, but not so muc…
#59 Data Collection for SMART Goals
The last few episodes, we’ve been talking SMART goals….but not like what we hear in our professional development sessions.
In pd, we hear all about how SMART goals are the key to school…
#58 Are SMART Goals Worth the Hype?
There has been a lot of hype over the last several years, especially before Covid, about SMART goals.
I’ve sat in hours of professional development about how to create SMART goals for m…
#57 How to Get Students to Work With Us
It is almost 2022, and I really cannot believe it.
In full transparency, I have been SUPER MIA from the podcast and blog recently because, well…. As some of you know, my husband is in t…
#56 Using Universal Screeners for Goal Setting
Last week we talked about how we can use universal screeners to do more than stress ourselves out on how much work we need to do to get our students where they need to be. We talked abo…
#55 Using Universal Screeners to Set up Interventions
The first few weeks of school are a wonderful, stressful time of the year. We get to know our new students, we get procedures and things all set up. Also, we test the students a whole l…
#54 Understanding Standardized Assessments
Standardized assessments are practically curse words in the teacher community, and for good reason. They are truly the bane of so many teachers' existences, but as much as I hate to adm…