Resources
Books
The Leader in Me: How Schools and Parents Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child at a Time, Stephen R Covey, 2009
Your Child's Strengths: Discover Them, Develop Them, Use Them, Jenifer Fox, M. Ed., 2008
This book gives parents and teachers tools to discover the three main strengths in children: Activity Strengths, Relationship Strengths, and Learning Strengths. This is a must read for all teachers and parents wanting to guide children towards choosing a path based on strengths for a more fulfilling life. This provides motivation and encouragement towards ELM's vision of changing the current educational paradigm towards one that is focused on strengths.
A Mind at a Time: America's Top Learning Expert Shows How Every Child Can Succeed, Mel Levine, M.D., 2002
This book provides a road map for parents and teachers, enabling them to observe and support the important mind functions that play a leading role in school performance and career success. This provides an excellent resource for ELM's focus on cognitive development.
Smart Moves: Why Learning is Not all in Your Head, Carla Hannaford Ph.D., 1995
Hannaford shows how and why the body plays a critical role in learning, expelling many myths currently held. This is by far my most recommended book to parents and professionals who are interested in teaching with the brain in mind. The information in this book is why ELM chooses to make music, movement, and play a critical element of every school day.
Awakening The Child Heart: Handbook for Global Parenting, Carla Hannaford Ph.D., 2002
All too often we forget that the child's heart is critical to the learning process. Hannaford illustrates through science how the mind and body develop with the rhythms of the heart, emotions, and play. This will inspire and challenge you to eliminate uncessesary stress from your child's life and to play more. I
Tools of the Mind: The Vygotskian Approach to Early Childhood Education, Elena Bodrova and Deborah J. Leong, 2007
Read to better understand and apply the importance of language and the social environment in development, how to meet children where they are and move them to the next level, and the critical role of executive skills in learning.
Curriculum and Products
Child-1st
Child-1st products are specifically designed for visual and other right brained learners; those labeled with dyslexia, autism, Asperger's, and ADD ; and those who struggle with reading comprehension . The products are also highly effective in teaching beginning readers, providing them with the essential foundation for future learning. ELM uses many of the products with great success.
More to Come!
"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."
~ Marcel Proust
