ANNOUNCE: 3/19/10 - Morningside Academy 6th Annual Gala Dinner & Auction, Seattle WA

Mark your calendar for the 2010 Morningside Academy, 

6th Annual Gala Dinner and Auction,

6:30 -10:30PM Friday, March 19, 2010 
 Doubletree Arctic Club Hotel
700 3rd Ave. at Cherry St.Seattle, WA.

Early ticket reservation deadline for this gala fundraiser is March 5, 2010.

All RSVPs are requested by March 12, 2010.

Morningside Academy interviewing for Fall 2010 Admissions

The Morningside Academy (Seattle WA) website states that they are currently interviewing for admissions to Morningside for Fall 2010.

• Admissions information 
• Information on Programs, including the summer school 
• Morningside Academy homepage

Past posts on Morningside Academy

Monday, November 23, 2009
Kent Johnson awarded 2009 Ernie Wing Award for Excellence in Evidence-based Education

Wednesday, June 3, 2009
OPPORTUNITY: Summer Programs for Students & Teachers at Morningside Academy, Seattle, WA

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Kent Johnson awarded 2009 Ernie Wing Award for Excellence in Evidence-based Education

Kent Johnson, Ph.D. and Morningside Academy, Seattle, WA is one of the recipients of the  2009 Ernie Wing Award for Excellence in Evidence-based Education , awarded

"...in recognition of their work in developing, implementing, and sustaining a “data-based decision making organization and culture” designed to provide state-of-the-art educational services..."

This prestigious award is well-deserved by Kent and the talented teachers of Morningside Academy, who apply use of good curricular design, fluency-based instruction and charting in their Generative Model of Instruction to improving the academic performance of 18,000 students via their program, having collaborative relationships with 86 programs nationally and internationally, and training new cohorts of teachers yearly in their Morningside Teachers and Summer Training Academies.

Kent has also shared his expertise as one of the founders of the online reading program,  Headsprout Early Reading.

Warm congratulations on this achievement!

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Past posts:
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
OPPORTUNITY: Summer Programs for Students & Teachers at Morningside Academy, Seattle, WA 

Related:
Johnson, K., & Street, E. M. (2004). The Morningside Model of Generative Instruction: What it means to leave no child behind. Concord, MA: Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies

Other Morningside instructional materials
Morningside Press

Johnson, K. (2009, in press). Instructional design for Precision Teaching in academics. In Marlene Cohen, Carl Binder, and Michael Fabrizio (eds.), Bridging the gap for learners with autism spectrum disorders and learning disabilities: Precision Teaching and Fluency-based Instruction. New York NY: Springer Publishing Company. 

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Readers are directed to seek definitive information from those primary sources

OPPORTUNITY: Summer Programs for Students & Teachers at Morningside Academy, Seattle, WA

Morningside Academy in Seattle, WA (Director: Kent Johnson) has for over two decades been helping struggling students to address skill problems that have kept them from academic success--helps them make phenomenal gains to catch up with their peers and master the skills to keep up.

While Morningside Academy also runs on a typical academic calendar, during the summer it offers special programs for both students and those who wish to learn the techniques of the Morningside Model of Generative Instruction.

First, for students ages 6-17:
Morningside Academy's Summer School
July 6th - July 31st 2009

Still has spots left. See their website for information on the program

and for teachers, tutors and graduate students,
Morningside Academy's Summer School Institute

Their website states that they are still currently taking applications for the 19th annual Summer School Institute, July 13th through July 31st, 2009. Some partial information,

Discover The Morningside Model Of Generative Instruction
Attend 1 or 2, or both weeks!

Week 1: July 13-17
Week 2: July 21- 24
Week 3; Graduate Students Only, July 27-31

Topics will range from an overview of the Model of Generative Instruction, Fundamentals of Instruction for Reading, Writing & Math, Practice Strategies using Precision Teaching and developing students ability to generalize and apply what they know in the classroom..."

Browse their website and find out what Morningside Academy does and whether they have the opportunity you've been looking for for your child or yourself.

For further reading:
Johnson, K.R., & Street, E.M. (2004). The Morningside Model of Generative Instruction: What it means to leave no child behind. Concord, MA: Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies.
Also available at Behavior Research Company and the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies.

Johnson, K. R. & Layng, T. V. J. (1992). Breaking the structuralist barrier: Literacy and numeracy with fluency. American Psychologist, 47, 1475–1490.
[abstract]

Johnson, K. R. & Layng, T. V. J. (1994). The Morningside model of generative instruction. In Gardner, R., Sainato, D. M., Cooper, J. O., Heron, T. E., Heward, W. L., Eshleman, J.W. & Grossi [Eds.]. (1994), Behavior Analysis in Education: Focus on measurably superior instruction (173–197). Belmont, CA: Brooks-Cole.
Text at teonor.com

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DISCLAIMER: Information is posted for informational or educational purposes of readers but is not, nor claims to be, an official outlet of the Standard Celeration Society or any other organization or business.
Readers are directed to seek definitive information from those primary sources