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Technology and the Diverse Learner

Marty Bray

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McREL Evaluation

McREL identified significant, positive relationships between Learning Bridges coursework and student achievement in both reading and mathematics. Effect sizes for significant relationships ranged from ES = .31 to ES = .56 and can be interpreted as medium to large according to Cohen’s guidelines. Females outscored their peers by .27; students of color outscored their peers by .22; students living in poverty outscored their peers by .14, and English language learners outscored their peers by .41 standard deviation units.

McREL 2009 Study

McREL 2008 Study

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NYC Department of Education

New York City Department of Education has chosen Learning Bridges to award a contract to deliver the Learning Bridges System, including its professional development for teacher and leaders, to New York City schools to improve academic achievement. The award was for R0688 Professional Development for Teachers and Leaders. We are honored to support New York City teachers and welcome them!

Baltimore City Public Schools

Baltimore City Schools has chosen Learning Bridges to serve its schools with two (2) contract awards for 2010-4 Professional Development for Mathematics, and 2010-5 Professional Development in Language Arts. We are honored to support Baltimore City teachers. Welcome!!!

Arkansas Department Of Education

Arkansas Department of Education has chosen the Learning Bridges option to be delivered to educators with its contract award to Questar Assessment, Inc. for statewide assessments of the Augmented Benchmark Examinations for 350,000 Arkansas students. The Learning Bridges Synthesis which identifies instructional solutions aligned to every score - in rank order of their power to impact achievement - will be provided with assessment results. The Learning Bridges Parent Activities will be available in English and Spanish for the scores of the Augmented Benchmark Examinations as well. Read Press Release

Questar Assessment Inc

Questar Assessment, Inc. (Questar) is a leading educational assessment provider for states, school, and school districts. Headquartered in Minnesota and New York, Questar offers comprehensive, custom assessment services - from large-scale statewide assessment programs to alternate, modified and English language proficiency assessments. Questar provided complete, end-to-end services designed to address all aspects of assessment from test design, development, calibration, and psychometric services to print production, and distribution. Read Press Release

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Why Learning Bridges?

If teacher effectiveness is to be tied to student performance as measured by District or State Tests, the questions to ask are...

Will the professional development that builds capacity in teachers make a significant difference in academic achievement?
If so, how much difference?

Closing the Gaps

Learning Bridges® is proud to announce the availability of the Culturally Proficient Teaching Certificate from California State University – Bakersfield through four (4) new courses.

Learning Bridges System

EVERY teacher in North Carolina has access to the MOST effective strategies for their state standards in Language Arts and Mathematics. Teachers have access to powerful interventions needed for low test scores.

Free Resources & Featured Specials

Featured Online Class - EDCI 607B – Classroom Management

EDCI 607B Classroom Management

Participants in this course will gain knowledge of and a rationale for utilizing positive classroom management techniques. This class will promote teaching students to become self-managers of their behaviors through classroom participation in procedures, expectations and consequences; problem solving; decision making and communication methods. In addition, teachers will gain an understanding of various causes of misbehaviors, appropriate techniques for dealing with those behaviors, and the impact that positive classroom management has on academic success.

FREE Instructional Strategy - Reading - Grade 1: Phonemic Awareness ES - 1.63

Standard: Concepts of Print

Benchmark: Phonemic Awareness - Develop ability to hear and say separate sounds (phonemes) in words (phonemic awareness) produce rhyming words, isolate consonant sounds, blend onset and rime, and blend spoken phonemes.

Phonemic awareness is the awareness that speech consists of sounds. It is critical to early reading instruction and a precursor to decoding. Providing students with stimulation in the form of storytelling, word games, and rhyming games are way to begin the process of this awareness. Teachers will want to move from rhyming words to smaller units of sound, and finally to the individual phonemes themselves. It is a natural part of language acquisition

FREE Parent Activity - Language Arts - Reading - Grade K

Language Arts - Reading- Grade K

Standard: Concepts About Print

There are many activities that parents can do with young children to support classroom lessons with this standard. Besides daily reading with children, parents can make learning about print fun. Children must first notice print and become interested in wanting to learn how to unlock the secrets that print holds. Children are surrounded by print in their daily lives - in video movies that they watch, on their breakfast cereal boxes, on the treats that they want to eat. Even preschoolers recognize these...

For two activities to share with the parents of your Kindergarteners...

Featured Instructor - Lynn Morrison

Hello Everyone! I am Lynn Morrison and I have facilitated professional development courses for Learning Bridges since 2006. With each course I teach I come away with new ideas and strategies to use in my own fourth grade classroom. Learning from other teachers is what it is all about!

I am a veteran elementary teacher of 33 years having taught every level from kindergarten to fifth grade! I currently teach fourth grade at a private school in The Woodlands, Texas, where I reside with my husband of 36 years. We moved to the Houston area eight years ago from Orlando, Florida, where I was a gifted resource teacher in the public schools for five years. My greatest honor was being awarded a Disney “Teacheriffic” award for innovative teaching in Florida schools.

Featured Teaching Resource - Best Practices for Teaching Reading

Best Practices For Teaching Reading

Best Practices for Teaching Reading

What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do

Randi Stone

Enrich your reading instruction with 40 classroom-tested best practices from award-winning teachers!

Discussion Topic - What do YOU think?

Common Core Standards

Nearly half the states have adopted the Common Core Standards with little or no opposition. The learning expectations of the Common Core Standards emphasize both procedural and declarative knowledge, as well as higher level thinking skills Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation. Most State Standards now in existence now focus primarily on declarative knowledge at the Knowledge, Comprehension, and Application levels of the Taxonomy of Thinking. How is your district or state planning to transition to the new standards? What is the plan for supporting teachers in unpacking the standards and finding appropriate pedagogy to teach them? Do you feel ready to teach them? If not, what do you need to feel confident?