By Matt Agorist Houston, TX — Over a hundred doctors and nurses who work in the Houston Methodist hospital network have filed a lawsuit against the company, arguing that they don’t want to be forced to take an “experimental” vaccine. This lawsuit could pave the way for other health care workers to make similar claims. According to the lawsuit, the company’s CEO, Marc Boom gave all the employees of the network, some 26,000 people, a deadline of June 7 to be vaccinated or be fired. A total of 117 plaintiffs are insisting that the hospital is “illegally requiring its employees to be injected with an experimental vaccine.” The hospital is forcing the staff to be “human ‘guinea pigs’ as a...
Elementary Reading Comprehension Strategies: Before, During, and After I have Elementary Reading Comprehension Strategies for you! To help your students become the best readers they can be, it’s critical to not only teach reading comprehension strategies, but also teach your students why it’s important to use them before, during, and after reading! There are multiple areas involved with reading comprehension. With that, comes multiple strategies to help students build connections with literature and an understanding that will stick with them forever. You know those stories that remain in your heart your entire life because you may have resonated with a particular event, setting, theme, or character while reading it? Making those connections and building a vocabulary can’t just happen by...
Whether you are seeing your students in person, providing teletherapy, or doing a little bit of both, these are the best summer-themed youtube videos for your summer therapy plans. When exploring summer fun, you can find reading passages about summer, weather concepts, going to the beach, ocean animals, and outdoor activities. Themed reading passages are a great way to work on tiered vocabulary, listening and reading comprehension, story grammar, sequencing, identifying the main idea, and recalling important details. Varying your supports and finding passages with your student’s speech sound are a plus! This will help you plan a great mixed group lesson for your students. As always, www.readworks.org or www.getepic.com are great places to find books and passages for your...
Education Research ReportTHIS WEEK Education Research Report Cognitive exercises help young children boost their math skills by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 2d Young children who practice visual working memory and reasoning tasks improve their math skills more than children who focus on spatial rotation exercises, according to a large study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. The findings support the notion that training spatial cognition can enhance academic performance and that when it comes to math, the type of training matters. The st Web-based coaching: Helpful to teachers, but no effect on students by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 2d This article describes and evaluates a web-based coaching program designed to support teachers in implementing Common Core–aligned math instruction. Web-based coaching programs can be operated at relatively...
It's finally 2021. The old, difficult year is done and the new one is here... bringing a lot of new life with it. The babies born this year are members of Generation Alpha and the world is waiting for them.We're only a few days into the new year and there are already some new celebrity arrivals making headlines while making their new parents proud.If your little one arrived (or is due to arrive) in 2021, they've got plenty of high profile company.Here are all the celebrity babies born in 2021 (so far):Jersey Shore’s Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino + wife welcomed a rainbow baby! Mike 'The Situation' Sorrentino and his wife Lauren have welcomed their first child.The couple announced their son's...
