Article Archives

Content Enhancement Routines

• The Clarifying Routine
  ...a description of this new Content Enhancement Routine
• Creative course organizer
  ...how one creative teacher used the Course Organizer Routine to launch her history course
• The Framing Routine
  ...a description of this new Content Enhancement Routine
• Raising questions about questions
  ...an analysis of teacher-student verbal interactions
• Using the Quality Assignment Routine
  ...a description of this new Content Enhancement Routine

Content Literacy Continuum

• Strategic Content Literacy Initiative: Focusing on Reading in Secondary Schools
  ...an introduction to the Strategic Content Literacy Initiative, exploring links between strategic instruction and schoolwide reform efforts

In the Classroom

• Above and Beyond: Effective teaching involves more than checklists and mnemonics
  ..."artistry behaviors" that set master teachers apart
• Focusing on what's best for students
  ...Richard Lavoie's address to the 1998 National SIM Trainers' Conference
• An Interview with Randy Sprick
  ...2004 International SIM Conference keynote speaker
• Smarter Planning: Considering curriculum in light of standards-based reform
  ...why educators must think differently about selecting content to reflect learning expectations specified in state and local standards
• Teaching...on purpose
  ..."big principles" of effective instruction as described by Dr. Sharon Vaughn of the University of Texas

Learning Strategies

• CRL committed to strategies instruction
  ...an explanation of the relationship between Content Enhancement Routines and Learning Strategies
• Group think
  ...a description of the Cooperative Thinking Strategies Series
• A new Starter Strategy: InSPECT
  ...a description of the new strategy for use with word-processor spellcheckers
• Practicing the Storage Strand Strategies
  ...a description of this new manual
• Sentence Writing Strategy revised
  ...a description of the new two-level Sentence Writing Strategy program
• Strategy instruction & tutoring
  ...a description of strategic tutoring, a way of helping students meet both short- and long-term learning needs
• Student motivation and commitment: A cornerstone of strategy instruction
  ...a description of the Possible Selves program
• Talking Together
  ...a description of the first program in the Community Building Series.
• Using Paired Associates with FORCE: Combining strategies boosts study skills
  ...a method to integrating CRL strategies with other programs

Miscellaneous Articles

• Deshler responds to New Republic article
  ...a letter to the editor of the New Republic magazine regarding its article, "Defining Disability Down"
• The future of special education
  ...a description of Floyd Hudson's Class-within-a-Class program
• Key factors for reading comprehension
  ...a summary of Dr. Michael Pressley's keynote address to the 1997 National SIM Trainers' Conference
• Language-sensitive SIM
  ...an examination of issues associated with language difficulties
• Preparing for an online future
  ...a look at the movement toward developing Web-based courses
• Putting the special in special education
  ...a summary of Dr. Naomi Zigmond's keynote address to the 1999 International SIM Trainers' Conference
• School Finance 101
  ...a school district's success story related to increasing its professional development budget
• SIM to the rescue? Maybe...maybe not!
  ...five factors that are essential for bringing about meaningful, long-lasting change in schools
• A subtle, yet significant name change
  ...an explanation of the decision to re-name the Institute
• Taking a cue from business: Maximizing staff development ROI
  ...how to measure the effectiveness of staff development sessions
• We've Been Waiting for This Moment...Are We Ready?
  ...federal focus shifts to literacy needs of adolescents
• What's happening at the Center for Research on Learning
  ...a look at organizational changes and the new charter at KU-CRL

Professional Development

• Archer shares thoughts on staff development
  ...an interview with the educational consultant on lesson design and presentation skills
• Preparing for Learning Strategies professional development sessions
  • PROCESS: Presenting Learning Strategies
    ...ideas for preparing for professional development sessions
  • Basic training: Presenting Learning Strategies
    ...more ideas for preparing for professional development sessions
• Teacher-Guided Professional Development
  • Partnership Learning
    ...a method of planning and delivering staff development sessions
  • Find Strategy: Problem-solving process structures in Teacher-Guided Professional Development
    ...a description of ways to help teachers identify and solve problems as they learn about learning strategies or teaching routines
  • Dynamic Planning: A process structure from Teacher-Guided Professional Development
    ...an activity that can be used to help workshop participants develop implementation plans
  • Seeking first to understand
    ...a process of using interviews to make professional development sessions more successful
  • Seeking first to understand
    ...more about the process of using interviews to make professional development sessions more successful
• Rethinking staff development
  ...one way to meet the needs of a district's students and staff despite fiscal limitations

Successful SIM Programs

• Connecting: Michigan training network promotes SIM statewide
  ...two Michigan groups join to forces to improve the learning experience for all students
• Lab offers strategic help after school
  ...a Model Learning Lab in Henderson County, Kentucky
• Learning excitement: Students find success in strategic tutoring program
  ...results of a pilot after-school strategic tutoring program at a middle school
• Michigan team creates winning program
  ...an effort to improve reading skills at Muskegon, Michigan, High School
• Our Three-Strategy School Year: An Adventure in Learning
  ...the story of a year of strategic learning for a SIM professional developer and three students
• Pathways to success
  ...a description of a whole-school improvement project under way in Topeka, Kansas
• SIM instruction with a tropical flair
  ...a SIM professional developer's work with missionary families in Southeast Asia and Oceania
• A supportive learning environment: Creating the invitational classroom with SIM
  ...experiences blending the SCORE Skills with an educational theory called Invitational Education
• A tactile strategy
  ...adapting strategies and routines for use with visually impaired students