Fluency Factory and Beal Street Academy in the News

The Patriot Ledger reports here about the Beal Street Academy receiving provisional approval from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.  Beal Street Academy can now accept referrals from cities and towns.

Topics in Learning and Education

Building Vocational Skills with the Big Six:  Richard McManus wrote the original version of this article as part of an invited workshop at the annual conference for the Association for Behavior Analysis International.  The article discusses methods for building the foundation skills that are used by every person (whether adult or child; whether handicapped or not) to learn, to play, and to work.  Eric Haughton and Ann Desjardins were the pioneers in this work, and Richard McManus was the first to apply this approach to vocational preparation.

Coaching for Success—Precision Teaching:  This article shows how Precision Teaching can help improve the performance of our education system.

Kidding Around Articles

Richard McManus wrote a series of columns for the South Shore Parents' newspaper Kidding Around.  Here are the articles if you missed them.

Why Bring Your Child to a Tutor?  (from the October 2003 Kidding Around)

Precision Teaching, A Method For Rapidly Increasing Learning (from the November 2003 Kidding Around)

Summer Tutoring—The Best and Worst of Times! (from the March 2004 Kidding Around)

A Reading Miracle (from the June 2004 Kidding Around)

How to Recognize that Your Child Needs Assistance (from the November 2004 Kidding Around)