Roger & Virginia Talk with Jenna Martinez, Adult Basic Education Center Coordinator for Literacy Partners, Inc.

The Learning Curve June 13, 2011

Roger & Virginia Talk with Jenna Martinez, Adult Basic Education Center Coordinator for Literacy Partners, Inc.

Listen to Jenna describe how she helps adult students overcome their past study failure and win at learning.  Jenna is the Adult Basic Education Center Coordinator for Literacy Partners, Inc., a non-profit organization that provides free literacy classes for New Yorkers.  Here she oversees more than a hundred current students and forty volunteer tutors who teach the classes, serving adults with grades 1-5 reading and math skills. Jenna has vast experience dealing with students tackling grades 1-5.  Before coming to Literacy Partners, she was the Adult Education Coordinator for Foundation Communities where she wrote and delivered adult English Second Language and Financial Literacy programs for the English and Spanish speaking residents.  Prior to that Jenna taught children and young adults both in school and in free after-school programs inSouth Texas.

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What Children Need to Learn to Read

The Learning Curve May 23 2011

Michelle Vallene is the author of What Children Need to Learn to Read

This is a very inspiring story of what a dedicated, loving parent can accomplish, both for herself and her child.  Michelle’s daughter who is now 19 years old was the inspiration for her to start her endeavor, develop her classes, and write her book. Her daughter was very low in reading in 2nd grade so Michelle developed the reading classes and within 6 months her daughter went up 2 grade levels in reading. Her daughter is now a freshman in college working toward an English degree with an emphasis on creative writing.

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Part 2: Dr. Richard Gordon Speaking on Why Inner-City Schools Often Underperform Suburban Schools.

The Learning Curve May 9, 2011

Part 2: Dr. Richard Gordon Speaking on Why Inner-City Schools Often Underperform Suburban Schools.

This is a no-holds barred interview with Dr. Gordon giving us first-hand in-the-trenches findings of facts regarding inner city minority student performance, why it is and what needs be done to improve it.  Dr Gordon holds a Ph.D. in Educational Administration from NYU, a Master’s in teaching from Harvard. He has had numerous publications and a book on the subject: The Emperor has No Clothes: The crisis in American Inner City Schools. (Available thru Amazon.Com).  He has consulted for many school districts inMass., NJ, and NY; and has been principal evaluator of millions of dollars ofNew York CityPublic School programs. He was a professor at City Univ. of NYC andClarkUniversity inMass. Most important, he has had some 40 years in public education, most of which was in inner city schools, including E.Orange (NJ), Dallas(Tx) andShreveport (La). Additionally, he was an assistant principal in an inner city school for 2 years(Orange,NJ). Thus, he know of what he speaks, first-hand and theoretically

Clock her to listen May 9, 2011

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Dr. Richard Gordon Speaks on Why Inner-City Schools Often Underperform Suburban Schools.

The Learning Curve May 2, 2011

Dr. Richard Gordon Speaks on Why Inner-City Schools Often Underperform Suburban Schools.

This is a no-holds barred interview with Dr. Gordon giving us first-hand in-the-trenches findings of facts regarding inner city minority student performance, why it is and what needs be done to improve it.  Dr Gordon holds a Ph.D. in Educational Administration from NYU, a Master’s in teaching from Harvard. He has had numerous publications and a book on the subject: The Emperor has No Clothes: The crisis in American Inner City Schools. (Available thru Amazon.Com).  He has consulted for many school districts inMass., NJ, and NY; and has been principal evaluator of millions of dollars ofNew York CityPublic School programs. He was a professor at City Univ. of NYC andClarkUniversity inMass. Most important, he has had some 40 years in public education, most of which was in inner city schools, including E. Orange (NJ), Dallas(Tx) andShreveport (La). Additionally, he was an assistant principal in an inner city school for 2 years(Orange,NJ). Thus, he know of what he speaks, first-hand and theoretically.

Click here to listen May 2, 2011

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Dr. Roger McIntire Speaks on How Students Win in School or College

The Learning Curve April 25, 2011

Dr. Roger McIntire Speaks on How Students Win in School or College

This is Part Two of our interview with Dr. Roger McIntire PhD, who is the author of Raising Your Teenager: 5 Crucial Skills for Moms and Dads and Raising Good Kids in Tough Times. Dr. McIntire is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Maryland, where he taught for 32 years. An award-winning columnist, McIntire shares his wisdom in the Martinsburg (WV) Journal and other publications.  As a child psychologist, a consultant and a teacher of teachers in preschools, grade schools, high schools and colleges since the 1960s, McIntire has worked extensively with families and children of all ages. He is the father of three children, now adults. Dr. McIntire’s scientific writings, over 100 in all, address everything from infant vocalizations, eating problems, and strategies for teachers, to high school motivation and college retention.  One of the key points Dr. McIntire makes is: “Happiness in Childhood Depends on School.

Click here to listen April 25, 2011

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Dr. Roger McIntire Speaks on Parental Relationships with Their Children

The Learning Curve 041811

Dr. Roger McIntire Speaks on Parental Relationships with Their Children 

Dr. Roger McIntire PhD, is the author of Raising Your Teenager: 5 Crucial Skills for Moms and Dads and Raising Good Kids in Tough Times. Dr. McIntire is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Maryland, where he taught for 32 years. An award-winning columnist, McIntire shares his wisdom in the Martinsburg (WV) Journal and other publications.  As a child psychologist, a consultant and a teacher of teachers in preschools, grade schools, high schools and colleges since the 1960s, McIntire has worked extensively with families and children of all ages. He is the father of three children, now adults. Dr. McIntire’s scientific writings, over 100 in all, address everything from infant vocalizations, eating problems, and strategies for teachers, to high school motivation and college retention.  One of the key points Dr. McIntire makes is: “Happiness in Childhood Depends on School.

Click here to listen April 18, 2011

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Listen to how one father helped his son overcome the barriers to learning by using the materials in our book.

The Learning Curve April 4, 2011

Listen to how one father helped his son overcome the barriers to learning by using the materials in our book.

This is a wonderful true story of how a young boy became enamored with a love of learning following his discovery that he could learn the meaning of words!  He became so alive with discovering the use of a dictionary that he actually wanted to get, as he put it: “All the kids in my class at school need one of these!  I’m going to buy some and give them to them.”

Click here to listen April 11, 2011

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The Barriers to Comprehension that Prevent Learning

The Learning Curve March 28, 2011

The Barriers to Comprehension that Prevent Learning

This show focuses on the vital information all parents, teachers and students need to know if they are going to be truly successful in their learning or teaching activities.  This show deals with three of the barriers to learning and how to prevent them.  It also gives you answers on how to detect and undo the damage done when your child or student is suffering the effects of these learning barriers.

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This week’s Learning Curve is about your child’s method and style of learning.

The Learning Curve March 21, 2011

This week’s Learning Curve is about your child’s method and style of learning.

We each have our own method of learning—and you should allow your child to do it it’s way!  You can’t dictate this to a child.  If you try to dictate how your child should learn, you’ll crush the kid and give them losses. Similarly, you must strive to facilitate an optimum balance between cause and receipt (the child being causative versus being made to inflow from the parent/teacher) in the learning process. If you violate either of these principles you risk sending your child down through the three levels of student decline to the bottom where the child goes into failure and gives up. We also discuss the point that dyslexia may well be the mark of a higher of a higher level of natural ability . . . not the disability that conventional wisdom holds it to be!  Tune in to get this latest on what research has revealed on these important issues.

Click here to play March 21, 2011

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The Learning Curve, Why This Program was Created and What’s in it for You.

The Learning Curve March 14, 2011

The Learning Curve, Why This Program was Created and What’s in it for You.

The Learning Curve addresses the issue that all of life is a learning curve.  Your success and that of your children depends on the ability to learn. This introductory program deals with the basic principles involved and how everyone’s natural ability to learn is too often blocked, thus leading to a failure to learn, and what you can do about it.  It’s a dirty little secret that the current educational system in America is the actual reason why, the cause, of the poor grades our kids are getting.

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