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Our results? Test scores show improvement of reading fluency on an average of 50%!
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Teaching Reading Fluency at New Economics for Women
Our newest facilitator, Joseph Peck, teaches Reading & Rhythm at New Economics for Women in Canoga Park. Reading & Rhythm helps students focus their thoughts while they read in the classroom.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Reading & Rhythm for Special Education Testimonial!
"Students soar with the Drumming for Your Life program." writes Ms. Marreno, a Special Education Teacher at Los Angeles Unived School District's Bethune Middle School.
Read her testimonial!
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
2012 Reading & Rhythm Test Scores Results!
We are improving reading comphrenshion skills and reading fluency to poor readers! Here is our exciting news with pre and post testing in the Los Angeles area in 2012. After six weeks of instruction (1
hour a day, twice a week) for 227 K-12 students in the Reading & Rhythm program, the average grade level
increase was 2.65 and the average increase in reading fluency was 59%!
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Reading & Rhythm at New Economics for Women!
Facilitator Rob Klonel leads a reading tutoring activity in Reading & Rhythm at the family center, New Economics for Women located in Canoga Park. Our reading strategies for elementary kids is a favorite. Feel the Rhythm!
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
IMA (Interactive Media Awards) Outstanding Achievement Award!
A great way to start 2013! We are happy to announce the Drumming for Your Life website has won the prestigious IMA (Interactive Media Awards) Outstanding Achievement Award in the category of 'Nonprofit'!
Our thanks to:
Cliff Hauser - Web Designer + Consultant
George Maimon - Web Designer
T Burrell - Editor
Here is the Link!!
http://www.interactivemediaawards.com/winners/gallery.asp?id=50073
Our thanks to:
Cliff Hauser - Web Designer + Consultant
George Maimon - Web Designer
T Burrell - Editor
Here is the Link!!
http://www.interactivemediaawards.com/winners/gallery.asp?id=50073
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
The Music Man!
Pacific Standard Magazine’s November / December 2012 issue has an in depth, contentious 8 page article on the Reading & Rhythm Program by Gabriel Kahn, a professor at the USC Annenberg for Communication and Journalism and a former LA Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal.
JOSÉ XUNCAX FIRST LANDED IN JAIL at 13 for armed robbery. Since then, he’s been in and out of the system, as he calls it, six times. Now, at 15, tall, muscled, with close-cropped brown hair and a scar over his left eye, he’s serving six months for another robbery. He lives at Camp Mendenhall, a juvenile-detention facility tucked between the mountains at the northern edge of Los Angeles County. School never meant much to José, and he stopped going entirely after probation officers showed up in his classroom to execute a warrant. When he arrived at the camp, he was, by his own account, ... Read More
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| Excerpt from Pacific Standard Magazine |
JOSÉ XUNCAX FIRST LANDED IN JAIL at 13 for armed robbery. Since then, he’s been in and out of the system, as he calls it, six times. Now, at 15, tall, muscled, with close-cropped brown hair and a scar over his left eye, he’s serving six months for another robbery. He lives at Camp Mendenhall, a juvenile-detention facility tucked between the mountains at the northern edge of Los Angeles County. School never meant much to José, and he stopped going entirely after probation officers showed up in his classroom to execute a warrant. When he arrived at the camp, he was, by his own account, ... Read More
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Writing & Rhythm
Happy New Year! Exciting news! Reading & Rhythm has been so successful with students we are now developing Writing & Rhythm. More to follow soon!
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