The importance and benefits of play cannot be understated. Children’s lives are quite busy with the pressures of school and the constant influence of media. It seems the distractions are mounting with each generation. If you are concerned about whether your child is getting the right amount of playtime, read…
Click here to purchase on Amazon.com “Our Solar System” is a thoughtfully illustrated, large-format paperback book which effectively teaches the basics about our sun and the planets, the seasons of planet Earth, and the phases of the Moon. After completing the book, readers use the link in the book to…
YoungMindInteractive just released a new animated video created using an iPad Pro and the APP Procreate. Artist/director Jeffrey Wiener produced this 1 minute video on behalf of client Friends of the Virgin Islands National Park. Watch here: After The Storm: Invitation to a “No Show Gala” from Friends of VI…
Young Mind Interactive has been retained to develop an educational APP for Friends of the Virgin Islands National Park. The APP project is spearheaded by Development Director Tonia Lovejoy with the goal of offering visitors to the park a “ranger in your pocket” to assist with identification of plants and animals…
“Our Solar System” is now an illustrated Ebook for young early-to-advanced readers, covering our Sun and the planets, the seasons of planet Earth, and the phases of the Moon. After reading the Ebook, Play the game version of “Our Solar System, and use it as an assessment tool to test reading comprehension.…
Young Mind Interactive, Inc. has just released a spanish version of our STEM game “Our Solar System” entitled “Nuestro Sistema Solar”. This browser-based Digital Learning Tool combines a drag & drop game with an EBook to teach the basics of our solar system. This three-part HTML5 game fits on the iPad, and can be customized for…
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Pay close attention when voting during the midterm elections!
The school voucher system proposed by Education secretary Betsy DeVos does not mean you can choose any school you want your kid to go to. It means the public education program will be dismantled.
If your child has an IEP (individual education plan for students with special needs), kiss it goodbye.
If you have a job in special-education, if you're a special education teacher, physical therapist, occupational therapist, speech pathologist, a para, a teacher's aid, or an ESL (English as a second language) teacher, you'll go first.
House Bill 610 makes some large changes. Inform yourselves. This bill will effectively start the school voucher system to be used by children ages 5-17 and starts the defunding process of public schools. The bill will eliminate the Elementary and Education Act of 1965, which is the nation's educational law that provides equal opportunity in education. ESSA is a big comprehensive program that covers programs for struggling learners, advanced and gifted kids in AP classes, ESL classes, classes for minorities such as Native Americans, Rural Education, Education for the Homeless, School Safety (Gun-Free schools), Monitoring and Compliance, and Federal Accountability Programs.
The Bill also abolishes the Nutritional Act of 2012 (No Hungry Kids Act) which provides nutritional standards in school breakfast and lunch.
The bill has no wording whatsoever protecting Special Needs kids, no mention of IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act), and FAPE (Free Appropriate Public Education). Some things ESSA does for Children with Disabilities:
-Ensures access to the general education curriculum.
-Ensures access to accommodations on assessments.
-Ensures concepts of Universal Design for Learning.
-Includes provisions that require local education agencies to provide evidence-based interventions in schools with consistently underperforming subgroups.
-Requires states in Title I plans to address how they will improve conditions for learning including reducing incidents of bullying and harassment in schools, overuse of discipline practices and reduce the use of aversive behavioral interventions (such as restraints and seclusion).
Please call your representative and ask him/her to vote NO on House Bill 610 (HR 610).
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Teachers, our most abused national assets.TIME’s new cover: ‘I work 3 jobs and donate blood plasma to pay the bills.’ This is what it’s like to be a teacher in America ti.me/2OhPMJr
