by NICOLA | May 20, 2025 | Data-Informed Decision Making, Lesson Planning
The Framework That Changed How I Plan Interventions A few years ago, I felt like I was constantly rebuilding the wheel when I taught.New students. New goals. New materials.Every term felt like a ground-up rewrite. I wasn’t disorganized—I just didn’t have a system....
by NICOLA | May 6, 2025 | Lesson Planning
The Simple Question That Transforms Intervention Planning If you’ve ever sat down to plan an intervention session and thought: “Where do I even start?” You’re not alone. Most Reading Specialists I work with aren’t short on dedication, training, or resources—they’re...
by NICOLA | Mar 17, 2025 | Phonics
BC Learning Progressions: A Phonics Shift We Actually Need. Recently, the BC Government released a draft of the ELA Foundational (k-4) Learning Progressions. For those of us longing for a structured phonics scope and sequence, it was a momentous day. While the...
by NICOLA | Feb 18, 2025 | Learning Disabilities, Uncategorized
The Growth Mindset Trap: What Schools Get Wrong About Learning Disabilities How misusing Growth Mindset keeps struggling learners stuck—and what actually helps. I’ve been mind-munching on this topic for a while. Like many of my thinks, it’s about the intersection of...
by NICOLA | Feb 4, 2025 | Autism and Reading
Myth Busting: Gestalt Language Processing …and why that is relevant to Reading Interventionists supporting Autistic learners. Last week, I read three recent studies (Beals, 2024; Bryant et al., 2024; Hutchins et al., 2024) that examined two newer concepts in the...
