A Summit is currently underway in Washington, DC, debating the importance of including handwriting, as opposed to only keyboarding, in today’s schools, as reported in Education Week. A comparison is being made to the argument about the need for teaching math facts when calculators and computers came into wise use. How important is teaching penmanship in your schools? And where would you stand on this argument?
Blogroll
- APA evidence-based treatments website
- APS
- Big Ideas in Beginning Reading
- Byron Rourke's webpage on NLD
- Canadian Association of Suicide Prevention
- Canadian Sports Concussion Library
- CASP (CPA hosted)
- ChildTrauma Academy
- Conscious Discipline
- Harvard University – Center on the Developing Child
- http://csmh.umaryland.edu/
- http://education.gsu.edu/schoolsafety/
- http://psychcentral.com/
- http://shtoolbox-mentalhealth.wetpaint.com/
- http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/
- http://web.jhu.edu/pedmentalhealth/projects.html
- http://www.acposb.on.ca/
- http://www.bpkids.org/
- http://www.caringforkids.cps.ca/index.htm
- http://www.ldonline.org/index.php
- http://www.ncld.org/ld-basics
- http://www.pbis.org/
- http://www.prevnet.ca/
- http://www.schoolmentalhealth.org/
- http://www.schoolpsychology.net/
- http://www.suicideprevention.ca/
- http://www.teenscreen.org/
- http://www.thinkkids.org/
- Intervention Central
- Kennedy Krieger Institute
- Massachusetts General Hospital, School Psychology and MADI Resource Center
- MindCheck
- NASP
- NCTSN (child trauma)
- Project ACHIEVE
- RTI Tools: A Response to Intervention Dictionary
- Safe Start Center
- SAMHSA
- School Violence Threat Risk Assessment resource
- Teen Mental Health
- The Psychology Foundation of Canada
- What Works Clearinghouse
Wonder what Marvin Simner has to say about this.
After all, he did produce a handwriting booklet for the CANSTART series.