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May 2024
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229: Not Just for Math: A Tiered System ...

JENNIFER GONZALEZ
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You can never have too many ideas for helping struggling students, right? In this episode, you'll get a few more that you may not have tried. My guests are two teachers — learning specialist Sarah Riggs Johnson and math teacher Nate Wolkenhauer — who share their system of strategies that help all students learn better, a kind of pyramid where the ones at the bottom apply to all students, the middle layers are used with a smaller group, and at the top are strategies that are only needed for a few students. If you teach math or special ed, this one is a must, but even if you don't, you're going to come away with some new ideas for how to help students who struggle — even if they don't have an identified learning disability.


Thanks to Scholastic Magazines+ and Studyo for sponsoring this episode.


To read Nate and Sarah's post, visit cultofpedagogy.com/tiered-learning-supports 

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