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  • Green Seattle Partnership Event: 11/7-11/13

    by Roots To Learning: Education & Consulting

    Roots to Learning is excited to support Green Seattle Days as a way to encourage students and adults to get involved in their local environment and learn how to better support the local ecology for the benefit of us all! Join daily virtual learning experiences on a variety of topics and then get outdoors and explore! From the Green Seattle Partnership website: This year,...

    10 Nov 2020
    Continuing Education, Current Events, Latest, Nature, Seasonal, Seattle
  • Help! I’ve Caught the Bitmoji Classroom Bug!

    by Roots To Learning: Education & Consulting

    Which, all things considered, is definitely less problematic than catching another bug that is currently rewriting reality, but I may have to stage an intervention soon because Bitmoji classrooms are honestly turning out to be a little too fun, and I didn’t think I would say that about anything in 2020! I continue to find silver linings in the current state of the world as we...

    14 Aug 2020
    Breathwork, Featured, Handwriting, Movement

About and Updates

Welcome!

Roots to Learning is a West Seattle-based independent education and consulting service specializing in one-on-one multisensory & interdisciplinary education for K-12 students diagnosed with dyslexia, dysgraphia, and ADHD, as well as typically developing students.

You can read more about my background, educational philosophy, and services here.

Scheduling a complimentary initial consultation here to learn more about my approaches and if I would be a good fit for your child’s needs.

Roots to Learning Website is under construction until the end of 2020!

This site is a bit like a tree that has outgrown its container, so it’s time for some changes! And change is good, but it takes time!

My goal is to have it fully functional by December 2020.

I will update my continuing education coursework and resume soon!

Please continue to check back often for the most up-to-date information regarding my services, availability, and resources!

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Current Events

Green Seattle Partnership Event: 11/7-11/13

by Roots To Learning: Education & Consulting

Roots to Learning is excited to support Green Seattle Days as a way to encourage students and adults to get involved in their local environment and learn how to better support the local ecology for the benefit of us all! Join daily virtual learning experiences on a variety of topics and then get outdoors and explore! From the Green Seattle Partnership website: This year,...

10 Nov 2020
Continuing Education, Current Events, Latest, Nature, Seasonal, Seattle

ADHD: Latest News & Events

ADHD, Continuing Education, Mind, Organization

9/8/20 Adults with ADHD: Russell Barkley Webinar

“ADHD in adults is among the most impairing outpatient disorders seen in clinical practice. ADHD is viewed as a disorder of self-regulation and executive functioning. The condition has an adverse affect...

18 Aug 2020

ADHD: Research & Education

Executive Functions/Study Skills

The Homework Folder

by Roots To Learning: Education & Consulting

Daily & Semi-Daily Homework Teaching a student to use a 2-pocket homework folder labeled on the inside “Homework to Do” and “Homework to Turn In” is a vital step in materials management and homework completion. For students using a three ring binder, a clear homework folder should be purchased and placed in the front of the binder so it is the first thing that...

15 Aug 2020
EF, Homework, Organization, Organization: Materials Management

Materials Management at Home

by Roots To Learning: Education & Consulting

At-Home Filing To maintain organization in the binder or accordion filer, an at-home filing system is vital.  Students should get in the habit of filing old tests, relevant handouts and notes at the end of a unit in an at-home filer.  This could be a file cabinet or portable file box with hanging files for each subject & manilla folders labeled for each unit. Ultimately, it...

14 Oct 2011
EF, Organization

Dyslexia

Recent Reporting & Resources on Dyslexia

by Roots To Learning: Education & Consulting

“Poetry should be a matter of passion, not survival,” writes fellow Rochester, New York native, Philip Schultz. So should schooling. I work with a number of students who bravely face their learning disorders on a daily basis in classrooms and institutions where the ideal of differentiated instruction, the mantra of “all kinds of minds,” and the theory of multiple intelligences have not been fully realized.  Institutional constraints (particularly large class size and reduced  or non-existent funding for appropriate resources), lack of professional development around learning disorders, and systems reluctant to change all contribute to a climate of misunderstanding, resistance, and frustration for students, parents, and teachers.  While media coverage around developmental and learning disorders, including increased visibility of individuals who have managed to succeed both in spite of and as a result of their disorders, may not necessarily result in changes to educational policy or classroom teaching practices, this kind of reporting is important in raising awareness and providing hope to individuals who struggle with cognitive challenges. My Dyslexia: A Poet’s Experience Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Philip Schultz,...

17 Oct 2011
Dyslexia, Learning Disorders

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16 Aug 2020

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“A story must be judged according to whether it makes sense. And ‘making sense’ must be here understood in its most direct meaning: to make sense is to enliven the senses. A story that makes sense is one that stirs the senses from their slumber, one that opens the eyes and the ears to their real surroundings, tuning the tongue to the actual tastes in the air and sending chills of recognition along the surface of the skin. To make sense is to release the body from the constraints imposed by outworn ways of speaking, and hence to renew and rejuvenate one’s felt awareness of the world. It is to make the senses wake up to where they are.”

David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More Than Human World

Dysgraphia

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Poetry & Writing

Great Poetry Books for Kids of All Ages

by Roots To Learning: Education & Consulting

As a poet and literacy teacher, I am always on the lookout for great books of poetry as well as poetically written stories that encourage kids to explore and play with language.  Poetry is the perfect way to teach phonological awareness, and wordplay is beneficial for all students, but especially those who are diagnosed with language learning disorders. Check out these resources at your local library or bookstore for use at home or in the classroom!  All of these books have been selected for their wonderful poetry and visual art. Most can be used for teaching broad language skills such as phonological awareness and phonics.  I’ve included target grade levels for each. Great Poetry Books for Kids (Young & Old!) I have used this book of poetry for years in my teaching. It’s a delightful collection of all kinds of poems (including some great concrete & personification poems) organized by theme.  Meilo So’s watercolor illustrations are a wonderful accompaniment.  This is a must-have for any bookshelf at home or school! Grades 2-12   A gorgeous...

14 Aug 2020
Arts, Phonics, Phonological Awareness, Poetry, Writing

Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the next...

David Abram, Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology

Mindfulness & Movement

Exploring Cultural Bias, Racism, & Otherism: Online weekend retreat 8/21-23 w/Rev. Seiho Mudo Morris

by Roots To Learning: Education & Consulting

About the Event From Rev. Seiho’s curriculum for this retreat: “Hate speech, cultural bias, racism, and otherism are the accelerants for the explosion of violence that is affecting every single marginalized group in America, like the images we’ve seen of a nuclear bomb blast, a mushroom cloud moving in all directions and engulfing everything in its path. “Functionally we have two choices. We have...

18 Aug 2020
Addiction, Featured, Mindful Movement, Mindfulness

Take a Brain Break

Brain Break, Featured, Homework, Mindfulness, Movement

Time for a Brain Break!

11 Nov 2020

The Natural World and Environmental Education

Mindful of the World

by Roots To Learning: Education & Consulting

“I look at the bird before me and imagine how it senses the world, how it feels breathing cold air, how it feels to have its feathers ruffling in the wind, how it feels to always have an eye out for possible food and possible predators. The bird sees me and is a nanosecond from flying off, but it stays. Why? By imagining the life within, the bird I am seeing is alive, no longer a shape and its parts, but a thinking, sentient being, always on the brink of doing something. By feeling the life within, I am always conscious that all creatures have personalities, and so do trees and clouds and streams. To feel the life within, I now imagine myself as the bird that is looking at me. I imagine its wariness, the many ways it has almost died in its short life. I worry over its comfort and safety, and whether I will see my little companion the next day, the next year. To feel the life within is to...

30 Jul 2020
Natural World, Nature

On Being

It is not our job to remain whole.
We came to lose our leaves
Like the trees, and be born again,
Drawing up from the great roots.

Robert Bly

Me: A Current Snapshot

Teacher. Writer. Artist. Researcher. Nature Lover.

My creativity and curiosity are what lead me, mind and body, through this life and they are the greatest influences, aside from my students, on my teaching.

One of my mantras is “live in color” and it comes to life through my art, as featured here in my original Rainbow Finch beaded necklace and the headwrap//mask I made recently in light of Covid-19.

Ever conscious of the environment and the effects of what we as artists and humans produce, I am sewing masks for the current pandemic that are reusable, upcycled, and can serve multiple purposes. And they are really colorful–because the world needs that now!

Follow my creative work at Perch Paper//Goods

 


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