
S.M.A.R.T. News
Fall 2009

Better Tools
Start S.M.A.R.T.! by Leslie Giese

Frequently Asked Questions about S.M.A.R.T. and other programs

Better Training
Successful Summer Workshops by Elyse Rethlake, MLRC Summer Assistant

From the Workshop to the Classroom by Josh Orpen

Better Results
Bermuda Parents Want S.M.A.R.T. Kids Too!

S.M.A.R.T. Students Love Weaving Through the Course!

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Movement Anchors Learning

Congratulations new S.M.A.R.T. educators for the 2009-10 school year! Your school is one of fifty-four brand new sites, and more of you were trained in S.M.A.R.T. this summer than any other year. Despite our limited number of MLRC Mentors, we accept the challenge of visiting all of your dedicated sites, just as you have accepted the challenge of implementing S.M.A.R.T. into your school!

We are offering a first on-site visit free of charge to schools in Minnesota because we feel so strongly that the follow-up mentoring is as important as the training itself! We are also available to help support mentoring in two important ways - first to work with new S.M.A.R.T. administrators to determine funding sources that may already exist within your school or district budgets, and secondly to include your school in requests to local and regional foundations to bring regular mentoring to your school!

Remember, the MLRC mentoring program exists to help you fit S.M.A.R.T. activities into your daily routine. Mentors possess a wealth of experience and knowledge as former S.M.A.R.T. educators in public schools across the country and are available to help launch and grow your S.M.A.R.T. program by scheduling activities, setting up your S.M.A.R.T. space, organizing classrooms, managing time, and sharing suggestions to strengthen programs and achieve student success. Contact us at (612) 706-5549 to discuss funding options for your school!

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Upcoming Workshops

S.M.A.R.T.
October 20-23, 2009
Minneapolis, MN

March 2-5, 2010
Minneapolis, MN

Neurotechnology
November 12, 2009
Minneapolis, MN

Dyslexia Program Teaching
February 17-18, 2010
Minneapolis, MN

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Start S.M.A.R.T.! by Leslie Giese

If you’re like other teachers, you left the S.M.A.R.T. workshop excited and eager to set up the program in your classroom and start helping students. However, when you arrived back at school, you didn’t know where to begin. To help you get started…
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Frequently Asked Questions about S.M.A.R.T. and other programs

It’s that time of year! Parents are hearing about S.M.A.R.T. from their little ones and turning to YOU with questions! They want you to explain the connection between walking on a balance beam and learning, and school boards are also interested in this new brain-stimulating program. To help you out, we polled our MLRC Mentors and they said the most FAQ were…
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Successful Summer Workshops by Elyse Rethlake, MLRC Summer Assistant

This past summer, 344 of you – daytime caregivers and child educators – accepted the challenge and attended a S.M.A.R.T. workshop. You lugged the heavy manuals and curriculum guides to and from cars and hotel rooms; you battled for…
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From the Workshop to the Classroom by Josh Orpen

“They never get put down!” exclaims Holly Syverson when speaking about her S.M.A.R.T. Curriculum Guide and S.M.A.R.T. Manual.
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Bermuda Parents Want S.M.A.R.T. Kids Too!

“Parents are knocking down the door trying to get their kids into the S.M.A.R.T. program!” We received a note from Allison Figureido last week—the first S.M.A.R.T. teacher in Bermuda!
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Give us your feedback! We all get LOTS of newsletters so we want you to keep reading ours! Please tell us what was helpful and what we can improve. Email comments to Josh Orpen, ACTG Communications Coordinator at mlrc@actg.org Thanks!

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