Local Learning Centre’s Work Goes Global

Press Release Sept. 17:  Maloney Method program featured at Copenhagen Social Research Conference The Maloney Method teaching system was featured this month at a major European social research conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. Dr. Robert Flynn of U of Ottawa presented a study on the effects of training foster parents to tutor foster children in reading…

Tags: foster kids, Instruction, Liiteracy, Outreach, Reading

Teach Your Children Well Book Bits Interview

     The Teach Your Children Well   Book Bits Interview. Michael Maloney’s first book, Teach Your Children Well  is an award-winning, best –seller and is becoming a classic in its field. The book describes the causes and effects of illiteracy in North America.   Lots of books do that. Michael’s book differs from the pack in…

Tags: Children at Risk, Homeschooling, Illiteracy, Instruction, Outreach, Review, Textbooks, writing

If your child is struggling with reading, watch this.

Lots of parents are confused because their children struggle with reading. This video will show you why the problem exists. http://www.childrenofthecode.org/Tour/c3/dysteachia.htm#! Take 5 minutes and learn what works and what does not.

Tags: Children at Risk, decoding, Homeschooling, Instruction, Outreach, Reading

Teaching Literacy Skills to Underprivileged Children, Rotary Style

Becoming the Chair of the Literacy Committtee Four years ago I was voluntold to become the founding Chair of the Literacy Committee of my local Belleville Rotary club by our then incoming District Govenor, Linda Ryder. I formed a committee and implemented a literacy project prescribed by that year’s Rotary International president, Wilf Wilkinson. Despite…

Tags: Outreach

Teaching Literacy in the Slums of Bangladesh: The Amarok Society

Looking for real Canadian heroes? Try this! Meeting Tanyss and GEM Munro and their Family Three years ago, I made the acquaintance of Tanyss and GEM Munro and their family. They were doing a cross-Canada book tour, had stopped in Belleville and had left a copy of their book at our public library. The librarian, who…

Tags: Outreach