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
#33 Collecting Data on IEP Goals
IEPs, and paperwork, goals, and present levels, evaluations, and reports….special education teachers are buried in all the things they have to do….today, let’s talk about how to progres…
#32 How to Teach IEP Goals
When I went to college, and was preparing to become a teacher, I learned all sorts of things about teaching strategies and classroom management, and even the basic philosophy behind wri…
#31 Making Goals, But With a Plan
Welcome to 2021! It is January, and it is really the season of resolutions….but everyone knows that resolutions are made to be broken….How about we change that this year?
Welcome to Reac…
#30 Looking back on 2020 and New Year Resolutions
So many people have used the words unprecedented and history-making to describe this year… And those words just make me want to scream at this point! While they may be accurate, for me……
#29 Talking to Parents About Progress
Your students have made a lot of progress this semester, and that is really something to celebrate! But, when students still aren’t at grade level, even after making big gains...talking…
#28 Wrapping up RTI and Progress Monitoring for the Semester
This has been a long, difficult semester….one I am glad to see is on it's way out! But for those of us knee deep in RTI, what do we need to do to wrap up this semester and prepare for n…
#27 Two Examples of How RTI Can Improve Learning
I like concrete examples. Having abstract concepts thrown at me is great and all, but I have a hard time visualizing what that concept could look like in my classroom.
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#26 Is RTI actually effective?
We have spent so much time talking about RTI...but honestly, is it really as effective as the “powers that be” believe it is?
Welcome to Reaching Struggling Learners, Episode 26. Today w…
#25 Why Do Schools Even do RTI?
RtI is a lot of work...for everyone involved. And with all of the extra work we all have to do because of COVID and distance or face to face learning, a lot of teachers are wondering wh…
#24 How to Get More Gen Ed Teacher Involvement in IEPs
Teachers, all of them have so much on their plates right now...and let’s face it, if it isn’t a task they are directly responsible for, things are being back-burnered...just for surviva…
#23 How to Get More Parent Involvement in IEPs
If you’re a special education teacher, you know that some parents are going to come to every IEP meeting and give good input...and other parents are going to be incredibly difficult to …
#22 Getting Parents Involved in Providing Interventions
Have you ever sat with your coworkers and discussed how awesome it would be if parents could or would work with children at home? I know I have many times.
Today we are going to talk ab…
#21 5 Steps to Staying Healthy During Cold and Flu Season
Obviously we have been talking...a lot...about staying healthy and basically not getting COVID...and now that cold and flu season is also upon us, what can we do to keep healthy with al…
#20 Talking to Parents About Your Academic Concerns
Does the thought of calling parents and discussing your concerns about academics or behavior make you feel queasy? Do you feel uncomfortable talking to parents about your concerns? Hey,…
#19 Ok, I have data….What do I do with it?
How incredibly frustrating is it when you’ve been working with a student for a long time, and you have come to understand that the student needs more supports than you’re able to give..…
#18 4 Easy Steps to Collecting Data for RTI
Have you been working on RTI in your classroom, but it all seems so complicated and is taking up way too much time? Let’s see if we can make this process a bit easier for everyone.
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#17 What do they mean when they ask you to collect data for RTI?
Today, I would like to talk about something that has been a struggle for so many teachers I have worked with over the past several years...and that is determining what data should be co…
#16 Practicing Skills During Down-Time
I have all the time in the world to fit in everything I need to!
….said no teacher ever…
Teachers don't have enough time for all the things they have to do in a day...yet they are maste…
#15 How to Get Started with RTI
Getting started with RTI can be overwhelming and incredibly intimidating....let me take the overwhelm out of it for you and give you step by small step directions on how to successfully…
#14 What To Do When You Know a Student is Struggling
We have all had those students in our classes....students who we know do not have the skills they need to be successful in meeting our grade level standards, and certainly will struggle…