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After an RTI revealed the costs of the selfie points being installed at various railway stations, new rules have been framed where all the RTI replies are mandatory to be cleared by General Managers of Zonal Railways or Divisional Railway Managers making the process more stringent. HW News’ Managing Editor Mr. Sujit Nair discusses how taxpayer’s money is often used by political leaders to advertise their political parties. 

A massive amount of Rs Rs 545 crore was received by political parties through the 22nd sale of anonymous Electoral Bonds (EBs) between October 1 and 10 ahead of the Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat Assembly elections, a Right to Information (RTI) query has revealed. 

इलेक्टोरल बॉन्ड के जरिए राजनीतिक दलों तक चंदा पहुंचता है. इस पर काफी आरोप भी लगाए जाते हैं. आरटीआई कार्यकर्ता कन्हैया कुमार की एक आरटीआई के जवाब में पता चला कि सरकार ने आखिरी बार 2019 में चुनावी बॉन्ड (Electoral Bond) प्रिंट करवाया था. तब नासिक में इंडिया सिक्योरिटी प्रेस में अलग-अलग प्राइस के 11,400 करोड़ रुपये के इलेक्टोरल बॉन्ड छपवाये थे. इसके बाद अब एक अगस्त से 29 अक्टूबर के बीच 10000 इलेक्टोरल बॉन्ड प्रिंट कराए गए जिसमें से एक अक्टूबर से दस अक्टूबर तक हिमाचल प्रदेश और गुजरात चुनावों के लिए इनको बेचा गया. 

Over the last 75 years of India’s independence, there has been no dearth of ideas and policies targeting progress. Yet policy progress is dependent on policy implementation. In this episode, Aarushi Kataria talks to Pranay Kotasthane about the gap that exists between policies on paper and what they actually achieve. They talk about the Right to Information Act 2005 and the 2020 Farm Bills in light of that discussion.

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Follow Pranay on Twitter: https://twitter.com/pranaykotas

Reading List:

1.Policy failure and the policy-implementation gap: can policy support programs help? by Bob Hudson et al.
2. Solutions When the Solution is the Problem: Arraying the Disarray in Development by Lant Pritchett and Michael Woodcock
3. Capturing Institutional Change: Case of Right to Information Act in India by Himanshu Jha
4.The Nature of Policy Change and Implementation: A Review of Different Theoretical Approaches by Lucie Cerna
5. 70 Policies That Shaped India by Gautam Chikermane

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Teacher, sight-word practice can be your students' favorite part of the day. My students have told me they love this time!

Sight-word instruction does not have to be passive. In fact, it shouldn't be! If you missed the previous episode, let me encourage you to start there. Motivation is so important, so let's place the foundation first.

In Part 2 today, I'm going to share four of my students' favorite strategies and a resource with even more. Teaching virtually? I've got strategies that work for both in person and distant learning.

Are you ready to throw some engagement glitter all over sight-word practice? Let's do it!

Links in today's episode:
Blog Post Parts 1 and 2
Sight-Word Engagement Guide
Virtual Sight-Word Blog Post

Does that notoriously long sight-word list just drain the joy right out of teaching?

I've been there, and I solved that problem! Pull up a desk chair and I'll let you in on the secrets.

Are you ready?

It starts with a motivating system. I'll tell you what's important if you want to make your own, or you can check out the one I designed and use in my classroom. With this system, students will actually want to take their next sight-word test. I promise it's true!

Don't forget to come back next week for an episode all about specific sight-word strategies.

Links in today's episode:
Rainbow Sight-Word system
Today's blog post
Episode 13 - virtual sight-word strategies
Virtual Sight-Word Strategies blog post

GUEST: CARLA SMALL, CEO, EARLYBIRD EDUCATION. Research shows that 70% of children who were not reading on grade level in first grade continue to not be reading on grade level in eighth grade. Catching reading difficulties early is the key to intervening with reading support to get learners back on track. EarlyBird is technology platform based on brain research that identifies whether a child is at risk for reading struggles like dyslexia, even before they learn to read. Amy talks with Carla Small about the development of this game-based tool and how it has been used effectively to help early readers.

New technological developments are serving up new possibilities with pyrolysis, but a number of challenges regarding upscaling, unit placing, and the transportation and storage of feedstock remain. Which refineries could benefit from implementing pyrolysis technology – and how?

Once again, Topsoe’s Sylvain hosts David Dayton, a Senior Fellow at the American non-profit, RTI International (The Research Triangle Institute). This time they discuss the commercial aspects of pyrolysis. Sylvain also talks to Topsoe’s R&D Director Jostein Gabrielsen and Research Scientist Magnus Zingler Stummann to discuss what it takes for refineries to take advantage of the technology.

On today’s podcast we review David A Kilpatrick’s book Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties. If you’ve been looking for a clear but thorough explanation of the science of reading, and how to treat reading problems, look no further!

Teachers, all of them have so much on their plates right now...and let’s face it, if it isn’t a task they are directly responsible for, things are being back-burnered...just for survival if nothing else. Not that helping out a coworker isn't important, or that data collection isn't either....but when it comes to providing feedback on student performance...if it isn't something that the teacher is directly responsible for creating....that feedback gets put to the bottom of the "must-do" pile pretty quickly... 

Today we are going to talk about ways that special education teachers can encourage more gen ed teacher involvement in IEPs. 

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Gen Ed Teacher Survey

If you’re a special education teacher, you know that some parents are going to come to every IEP meeting and give good input...and other parents are going to be incredibly difficult to reach and getting them to attend, even over the phone, can be like pulling teeth. What can we do to get more involvement from that second group of parents?

Today, let’s talk about how we can get more parents actively involved in IEP meetings. In this episode, I'll be sharing several ideas I've used over the years to encourage more active parent involvement in IEP meetings. 

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Parent Surveys

Have you ever sat with your coworkers and discussed how awesome it would be if parents could or would work with children at home? I know I have many times. 

Today we are going to talk about some ways that teachers can help parents understand the interventions they are providing to students, and how they can support the students at home. If we can get more buy-in from parents, we can make bigger, faster gains in student learning. 

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Does the thought of calling parents and discussing your concerns about academics or behavior make you feel queasy? Do you feel uncomfortable talking to parents about your concerns? Hey, we have all been there….let’s talk about what we can do about it!

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How incredibly frustrating is it when you’ve been working with a student for a long time, and you have come to understand that the student needs more supports than you’re able to give...but no one will listen when you talk about this issue???? I know it absolutely drove me up the wall when that happened to me!

Today, I would like to talk a little bit about what you can do with all of that data you’ve been collecting and how you can use it to advocate for your students.

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I heard a great analogy several years ago about education and teaching, which has struck a nerve with me. I have come to realize that teaching is a great deal like building a house. Our students need a firm, well-built foundation, on which all later learning can be built. 

In previous years, teaching was more tailored to the individual student, and while I value this individualization, I have no wish to go back to the one-room schoolhouse with 40 students! But, I do think that an in-depth analysis about why students struggle in school, and why this struggle snowballs as they move through the grade levels is needed. 

In this episode, I discuss this analogy, give a silly example of what would happen if we treated construction of houses like we do the education of a student, and why I think progress monitoring and the RTI/MTSS process could be important in improving student outcomes in today's school environment. 

For more information about progress monitoring, check out my blog: https://everydayteachingadventures.com  

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Today on the Reaching Struggling Learners Podcast, we discuss some of the pressures put on teachers to show improvement, ways that progress monitoring has been presented to me, and why I think that the process shouldn’t be so stress-inducing for teachers. 

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The process for identifying a specific learning disability such as dyslexia is complicated in the public school setting. In this episode Mary explains the RTI (Response to Intervention) process. She also breaks down how a student is eligible for special education in the public school. Key take away is ensuring that the student is receiving appropriate instruction to remediate their decoding struggles. Strong Tier 1 and 2 instruction is necessary to determine whether the student has a learning deficit or a learning disability.

Resource Links:

1. What to Expect at an IEP Eligibility Meeting
2. Response to Intervention
3. Intervention Central
4. 13 Conditions Covered Under IDEA
5. How Does the Reading Brain Work? (video)
6. RTI pyramid "triangle"
7. Struggling Readers Checklist

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