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Precision Teaching Centers

Beal Street Academy, located in Hingham, Massachusetts, is a private school associated with the Fluency Factory. Richard McManus applies the same teaching approach that the Fluency Factory has so successfully used to raise students' achievement levels.

Ben Bronz Academy: Ian Spence and Aileen Stan-Spence are celebrating their 20th year running Ben Bronz Academy, one of the best schools on the planet. These two pioneers have put together a mix of curriculum and processes that are light years ahead of most other centers. If you are near West Hartford, CT you should drop in for a visit.

Center for Advanced Learning: A learning center with an active research program that scientifically demonstrates the effectiveness of its instructional methods. The Center maintains a strong affiliation with University of Nevada, Reno. Nick and Kimberly are terrific Precision Teachers and founded this large and very successful center through UNR. It is now privately owned by the Berenses.

Exeter Speech, Language & Education Associates: Jean Tucker and Pat Pennington have created a powerful learning center in Exeter, NH. They provide marvelous and multiple services for children who are experiencing difficulty in school, and use Precision Teaching to assure that their many services are effective.

Haughton Learning Center: Elizabeth Haughton and her husband Eric were among the pioneers in combining Direct Instruction and Precision Teaching, and were early contributors to techniques for defining fluency and useful standards. Elizabeth has continued Eric’s work and is operating the Haughton Learning Center in Napa California. We use her teaching materials with great success at the Fluency Factory.

Morningside Academy is located in Seattle, Washington and is another of the premier educational organizations that use PT and Direct Instruction. Kent Johnson pioneered this excellent school that has had a profound influence on other PT schools and assisted many public schools as well.

Teach Your Children Well: Michael Maloney was one of the pioneers in blending the Direct Instruction and Precision Teaching techniques that we employ at The Fluency Factory. Michael also assisted in starting the Fluency Factory. He is currently working on math-software projects, has written a marvelous series of books called Teach Your Children to Read Well, as well as a new series, Teach Your Children to Spell Well.

Education Resources

Cyberslate: Ian Spence and Aileen Stan-Spence developed one of the most remarkable and successful schools for children with ADD in the country. Then they have moved beyond that to offer services over the web to families and tutors who want to use PT tools. You can obtain CyberSlate, a PC-based program that can be used in classrooms or at home to save the labor of charting–or if you are in the Boston area, become a member of The Fluency Factory and obtain a membership through us!

Homework Help: Gary Johnson has been providing corporate training, motivational speaking, and management development for quite some years. He put together this page to provide resources for his sons. However he eventually had a rich resource of information for any child who is researching on the web, and decided to publish it. This is a marvelous resource for African American web pages and information on diversity. Check it out!

Teach Your Children Well Book Series: Teach Your Children Well has developed these research-proven reading, math and spelling programs. Every program comes with a money-back guarantee, as well as a toll-free Homeschool Help Line.

Video

Math Education: An Inconvenient Truth: It's scary what passes for math education in some schools. Make sure your children aren't taught using the alternative methods described on this video!

Interview with Ogden Lindsley: Rick Kubina interviews Precision Teaching originator and legend Ogden Lindsley. The video is a bit rough around the edges, but Og provides engaging insight into the processes of teaching and learning. (Warning: The video takes a long time to download.)

More Precision Teaching Links!

Precision Teaching Listserv: This worldwide on-the-web resource for PT is located at Penn State University. Thanks to Rick Kubina, there has been an ongoing listserv since June of 1997. The list has ups, it has downs, but it is THE live source for PT assistance and support. The archives are a marvelous resource. You can find it all (and instructions for joining!) at the listserv site.

Precision Teaching Wiki: Regina Claypool-Frey has begun and is winning a personal battle to make Precision Teaching accessible to a much wider audience. Though her posts and research on the Precision Teaching Listserv are brilliant, her wiki PT website is absolutely the most thorough introduction available!

Athabasca University Precision Teaching Module: An introduction to PT and information on how to do it.

Angie Penzkover’s Homeschooling Page: Has information on PT and links to Direct Instruction. Great page by a no BS homeschooling Mom who wants the BEST for her children.

Historical Antecedents of Precision Teaching: Information on the history of Precision Teaching, why things are set up the way they are, etc.

Martin Kozloff: Many rants about education and MANY links to Direct Instruction and PT resources. Also lots of information on current educational practice in the USA.

Red Sarna has been using Precision Teaching principles to build math skills at the Maine Maritime Academy for several years now. He is particularly interested in developing stronger basic skills for incoming students. As a result he has created wonderful worksheets for use with Precision Teaching. He has a lot of other interests as well, including dogs, old trucks, and many others.

Standard Celeration Society: Good source for PT information. Their old site can be viewed here.

Writing Objectives for Precision Teaching: This is a VERY comprehensive summary written by Mal Neely, a former school psychologist who is now happily tutoring!

Sopris West Basic Skill Builders: Use this site to purchase PT materials and charts from Sopris West. Ray Beck, who was involved in the most extensive public school implementation projects is the PT person at Sopris. Their basic Skill Builders program is very nicely sequenced and has comprehensive practice materials to assure fluent performance.

Provalis Research: Practice Mill is a truly fine PT authoring software that makes it possible to create a VERY fast flash card system. The system is capable of measuring and charting the performance of all students who are using it. Users are encouraged to share their decks, and the program comes with very nice math and geography flashcards. A breakthrough in computerized PT programming, available through Provalis Research.

Rick Kubina’s Website: At long last Rick Kubina, a critical link to all of us in the Precision Teaching community as the master of the listserv, has created his own website, with much useful information on Precision Teaching. Go see this Hollywood-handsome guy and learn much about PT.

Celeration Technologies: Joe Parson’s company provides computerized Precision Teaching tools that are widely used in corporate and collegiate instruction. Check out Joe’s excellent website. Create learning decks and trade them with your friends!

Binder Riha Associates: Carl Binder is perhaps the most widely known Precision Teaching professional—and my chart parent. He has been a leader in Human Performance Technology and Precision Teaching for over thirty years. Carl has been as active in education as in the business applications of these techniques. His firm, Binder Riha Associates, provides management consulting and performance improvement for sales, marketing, and service organizations in fast-moving companies.

Fluency.org: Carl Binder has been working to promote the use of mastery learning through high performance standards for over thirty years. He recently created a great new website, Fluency.org, to promote the use of these standards.

Precision Teaching Party. This Rick Kubina website provides a chance to see and hear many Precision Teaching folks with a lighter tone.

TAGteach: Karen Pryor and a group of professional coaches and trainers began the use of an approach they call Teaching with Acoustic Guidance (TAG) to help teach expert movement skills to dancers, gymnasts, and athletes. Since then this application of behavioral technology has spread to many fields and grows monthly! At the Fluency Factory, we use TAGTeach to teach our tutors AND occasionally our students.

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