Academic Success & Family Unity for All
Accelerate reading, writing, listening, speaking,
information organization, study skills and math.
Your Children. Your Students. No Excuses!
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All I want is for all children to learn how to read and achieve academically.
The rest will follow: better students, better schools, better teachers, better families, better behavior, better nation, better life.
from Rory Donaldson, M.A.T. (Master of Arts in Teaching)
5,000 classes, hundreds of students and teachers taught
Parents and teachers, turn "I can't" attitudes into
May 2008
Save the Brains
"I can!" behavior.
- all kids, all students, all grades, all skill levels, all learning styles, all intelligences, all ages -
Click Here to Put Your Children and Students in Charge of Winning
"You can too!"
THE PHILOSOPHY behind the program is basically simple. We say in effect, “Kid, it doesn’t matter how miserably your environment has failed to teach you the basic concepts... We’re not going to fail you. We’re not going to discriminate against you, or give up on you, regardless of how unready you may be according to traditional standards. We are not going to label you with a handle, such as dyslexic or brain-damaged, and feel that we have now exonerated ourselves from the responsibility of teaching you. We’re not going to punish you by requiring you to do things you can’t do. We’re not going to talk about your difficulties to learn. Rather, we will take you where you are, and we’ll teach you. And the extent to which you fail is our failure, not yours. We will not cop out by saying, He can’t learn. Rather, we will say, I failed to teach him. So I better take a good look at what I did and try to figure out a better way."
Zig Engelmann, founder of Direct Instruction
EMERGENCY SOLUTIONS
THAT WORK TODAY
1) Cooperation Before Instruction, the great mandate (click here)
2) How to Teach Virtually Anything to Anyone (Principles of Great Instruction)
3) Teach Your Kids to Read (click here)
4) Read aloud for family unity (click here)
5) Contracts that put your kids in charge of winning (click here)
6) Tell Me Your Goals (click here)
7) How to Inoculate Children Against Poverty (click here)
INDEX OF ALL SOLUTIONS & RESEARCH RESULTS
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Don't be a sucker. Achieve!
Is your goal better schools? Better students? More success? Better teachers? Family unity? The purpose of Brainsarefun is to help you, your kids, and your students, achieve and succeed academically. Students report more success in the classroom and get better grades. Parents report better behavior and less struggle with homework. Teachers report the satisfaction of becoming master teachers. You can too.
Teachers: Have you ever wished you knew more about teaching reading?Parents: Are you fighting with your children about homework?
Administrators: Have you ever wished your teachers were more effective?
A Short Statement on Education for Politicians, School Administrators and Superintendents.
OUR SCHOOLS HAVE TO GET ENORMOUSLY BETTER - preschool through the college classroom.
This means the teachers must get better. This means that teacher training must re-tool and graduate teachers who really know how to teach. Our current teacher-training in America is negligent and, arguably, criminal. Our schools of education are largely turning out teachers with virtually no training in how to teach the fundamental academic skills to mastery. All teachers, no matter what subject, level, or grade being taught, can choose to become master teachers.Brainsarefun offers the curriculum and methodology required to realize the dreams of Master Teachers - based on a billion dollars of research and experience. When the methodology and curriculum described here is used, virtually everyone improves his or her reading ability by 1.2 (plus) years with 25 hours of instruction. Over the course of a year, imagine the remedial and accelerated gains your children and students could make. To find out what the students are saying, click here.
Question, comment or story? Let me hear from you at roryd@brainsarefun.com.
Finally, Never, ever, ever give up. And, above all, Love!
Rory Donaldson, Master of Arts in Teaching and Chief Brain (what makes him so smart?)P.S. More on the Who and What of Brainsarefun - What the research says? (click here)
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