Lisa Stewart, Psychology, trained Minnesota Reading Corps members and teachers last week as part of the Minnesota Reading Corps 2011 week-long training institute. Minnesota Reading Corps is an Americorps program where members volunteer for a year to help reduce the achievement gap in reading. In 2011-2012 there are over 760 members statewide, serving thousands of students. Many of the schools […]
Lisa H. Stewart, School Psychology, presented at the MN Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) conference in Duluth March 3 & 4. Her presentation was on current research related to determining academic progress using Curriculum-Based Measurement.
Dr. Lisa Stewart presented her research on preschool vocabulary enrichment at a symposium at the National Association of School Psychologists in San Francisco, Calif., Feb 25, 2011. Graduate students Sara Heimdahl and Tara Hanson were co-authors on the project. She also co-presented a research paper on establishing early literacy goals and targets using DIBELSNext with Dr. Roland Good and Dr. […]
Lisa Stewart, School Psychology, published in the popular “Helping Children at Home and School” series. Stewart’s article on Academic Local Norms provides educators and parents with a concise guide to developing and using normative academic information from the child’s own classroom, school and district. The article is part of the widely used NASP series that provides short articles for educators […]
Lisa H. Stewart, Psychology/School Psychology, planned and presented a Tier 1 Strand at an RTI conference in Bloomington April 7 & 8. She coordinated a two-day strand focusing on Tier 1 (Core) implementation and evaluation of the Response to Intervention (RTI) model in schools. She presented key sessions on the importance of high quality Tier 1, evaluation of Tier 1 programs, and problem solving at the Tier 1 level as part of the strand. Click headline to read more.