Welcome to the BC Fast ForWord Consortium site. We are a community of educators from Coquitlam, Burnaby, Sunshine Coast, New Westminster, West Vancouver, Surrey, Vancouver, North Vancouver and Greater Victoria. As well, we have participants from northern BC, Kelowna/Okanagan and Alberta.
Our intent is to deepen and share our understanding of the use of Fast ForWord as an intervention to support our students. Feel free to browse the site, add your comments and questions.
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How to use the site:
(March 2017) What's been happening with Fast ForWord across BC? Here's information compiled by Scientific Learning. Thanks to Dr. Urs Ribary for sharing this great news. Click here for document.
It's been a long time since we've posted. How are you supporting students with reading difficulties? Here's a recent video from Scientific Learning.
Nov 5th Window into the Human Brain.doc
ATTENTION ALL SITES - EARLY MEETUP - Tuesday NOVEMBER 5, 2013 [3:30-6:00)
New Westminster Secondary LIBRARY; 835 Eighth Street New Westminster [map]
Featuring: Dr. Urs Ribary (3:30 - 4:30) Window into the Human Brain: How we Perceive and Process the outside World.
(*Open to anyone! This is a presentation you won't want to miss)
Dr. Ribary is Professor and BC LEEF Leadership Chair; Cognitive Neuroscience in Childhood Health and Development; Director, Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Institute, Department Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Department Pediatrics and Psychiatry, University of British Columbia,; Fellow UBC Institute of Mental Health and Investigator Brain Research Centre.
4:45-6:00 Table discussions on implementation processes (successes, challenges, sharing)
**Please come with your questions or post them here so we can all think and perhaps bring information to share.
Thank you to New Westminster District for hosting!
Please let us know if you are planning to attend. Or email Janet.Chow@sd41.bc.ca OR akarsan@sd40.bc.ca
| I'LL BE THERE! (NAME & SITE) |
| Alysha Karsan - New West |
| Janet Chow - Burnaby |
| Gary Hernandez - Coquitlam |
| Lori Magri - Burnaby |
| Laura Weatherly - Langley Online |
| Carol Westdal - Vancouver |
| Sandy Collins - Surrey |
| Marilyn Edwards - Surrey |
| David Platt - West Vancouver |
| Jacquie Hall - Vancouver |
| Gail Rovere - Vancouver |
| Margaret Hawken - Burnaby |
| Shona Kwasnicki - Burnaby |
| Dino Klarich - Burnaby |
| Maryann Vukasovi - St. Mary's, Vancouver |
| Ardyth Moorcroft - New West |
| Jillian Smith- Burnaby |
| David James - Burnaby |
| Bernadette Catt - Burnaby |
| Carolyn Thauberger - Burnaby |
SEPTEMBER, 2013
Welcome back everyone! Can you believe it's September. We're so excited to be back and getting into the groove of plans, revisiting goals and moving ahead with more learning.
Some things to entice you right out of the gate:
- planning a gathering of the Consortium and any interested individuals to a Connections Party [held in New West - date to be confirmed.
- Webinars on Scientific Learning site. Register at http://www.scilearn.com/
- Reading Fluency with Timothy Rasinki (Sept 11; 1pm)
- Neuroplasticity Revolution with Norman Doidge (Oct 2; 10am)
Click here for Archived News... 