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    • Project Title: All Hands on Tech: Reaching Struggling Readers with Office 365

      Area of Focus and/or Research Question: The area of focus for the Action Research project is reading fluency. If a child is a struggling reader, he/she reads slowly and spends a great deal of time decoding words which in turn leads to poor comprehension. Acceptable…Read More

    • Project Title: Wild About Phonics: A multi-sensory approach to teaching phonics.

      My students are lacking the necessary foundational skills to be successful and fluent readers.

      Zoo-phonics Multisensory Language Arts Program will be implemented in the resource room with students who currently receive specially designed instruction for reading…Read More

    • My Grant Project is titled, The Impact of the Physical Learning Environment on Student Learning and Behaviours: The effects of school and classroom décor, lighting, space, and design on student progress.
      As a seasoned educator, I have seen my fair share of educational fads come and go. Many of us have witnessed the pedagogical trends that tend…Read More

    • Books and Bobcats–The BEST Combination
      Through my 2017-18 ARI grant, I plan to build relationships with our two feeder schools and aloow my Transitional Senior English students to become authors with a “published” finished product they can allow others to read. I want to use class journals and help the students become authors of “what they…Read More

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