Tag Archives: Celebrity

A mind stretching podcast on intelligence and how it is perceived.

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Krista Tippett from On Being interviews Mike Rose on intelligence across all professions and how the measures and cultural perceptions we currently have on intelligence might be too narrow.

MIKE ROSE is a research professor in the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. He’s the author of several books, including The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker, Why School?: Reclaiming Education for All of Us, and more recentlyBack to School: Why Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Education.

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PENT and Diana Browning Wright

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Recently, Diana Browning Wright came to present to our Special Education staff on a variety of subjects, but primarily on empirically based proven behavioral practices. She is a dynamic and knowledgable educator that has definitely forgotten more about child behavior than I will ever know.

Her website PENT website is a great. I particularly like Positive Environments and RtI it reviews how to set the student up for success in a variety of environments. I use these strategies with the students and teachers I work with at school.

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Michelle Garcia Winner has been a great resource in my work with children with Autism. Her strategies and concepts to support kids on the spectrum really work for both kids and educators alike. Here is a list of concepts and products that she has to offer

Social Thinking Vocabulary and Materials

She has a great website as well.

http://www.socialthinking.com/