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
#13 What is ZPD?
What is ZPD? And what the heck does it have to do with my classroom, and especially my struggling learners???
Today, we talk about how identifying and using the ZPD can help our struggl…
#12 How to Track a Special Ed Caseload Without Losing Your Mind Part 2
Last week we talked about ways to tame the paperwork beast....this week we talk more about this topic, and how you can create systems that work for you to keep it all under control!
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#11 How to Track a Special Ed Caseload Without Losing Your Mind Part 1
Being a special education teacher is a HUGE job, and so many wonderful teachers get buried under the PAPERWORK.
Today I discuss ways that I have found to tame the paperwork beast to sav…
#10 Appreciating Learning Differences in the Classroom
We know that our students learn differently, but how much time do we really spend thinking about these differences, let alone appreciating them?
In this episode, I talk about the import…
#9 The First Step in Solving the Problem
We know that there is a problem with the education system and that it is failing students. Why then do so many blame the students for the failure?
What can teachers do to get one step c…
#8 Conversations About the Failure of the Education System
2020 has been ridiculous, no one can or will argue that point. But some good has come from all of this….important conversations have been had on the national stage. Hopefully these conv…
#7 My Honest Thoughts About Self Care
Today, as we wind down the school year….the weirdest year I think any of us could ever have imagined…. I am reminded of how important teachers are in this crazy mixed-up world. Teachers…
#6 Trauma in the Classroom
With all the crazy things going on in the world- COVID-19, quarantine and now killer hornets (is that not a thing of nightmares????) we are all feeling the stress. But as teachers, we a…
#5 RTI Tier 3 Explained
In Episode 4 of the Reaching Struggling Learners Podcast, we talked about RTI and Tier 1 and 2 interventions. In this episode, we expanded on what we talked about last week and moved in…
#4 RTI Tiers 1 and 2 Explained
Today, on the Reaching Struggling Learners Podcast, we talk about RTI, especially Tiers 1 and 2 and what that could look like in a classroom. We also talk about why data collection and …
#2: Let's Build a House!
I heard a great analogy several years ago about education and teaching, which has struck a nerve with me. I have come to realize that teaching is a great deal like building a house. Our…
#3 The Progress Monitoring Struggle is Real
Today on the Reaching Struggling Learners Podcast, we discuss some of the pressures put on teachers to show improvement, ways that progress monitoring has been presented to me, and why …
#1 Let’s Do This!
I am Jessica Curtis (boy mom, veteran teacher in gen ed and sped, passionate about making sure every student is able to perform the basic skills needed to be successful after graduating…