Inside the Institute

In every issue of The Beacon, a member of The Windward Institute team will pen an opinion editorial commenting on a timely topic affecting children with learning disabilities.

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The Windward Institute: An Exemplar of Translational Science

The Windward School, through the Windward Institute and its affiliation with the Haskins Global Literacy Hub, has played a significant role in the process of translating research findings into research-based and research-informed practices and programs for the benefit of its students and the larger educational community.

Speaking Truth to Power: One Hour with the New York Commissioner of Education and the Chancellor of the Board of Regents

Members of the Haskins Global Literacy Hub Leadership team presented recommendations on three areas that would have an immediate effect on improving reading outcomes.

Disrupting the Educational Status Quo: Advocating for Scientifically Based Reading Instruction

Not being able to read proficiently can have a devastating impact on life. Entire futures, including job/financial security and confidence, rest on the ability to read and write.

Scientifically Based Reading Programs: Caveat Emptor

Despite a solid understanding of what constitutes effective reading instruction, the difficulty of determining whether a reading program deserves the labels scientifically based or evidence-based persists.

Social Justice: Disproportionality in Special Education

No matter the underlining causes, special education disproportionality is an issue of social justice because of its unequal effects on the education of students of color.

Advances in Educational Neuroscience

The bridge between education and neuroscience is evolving into a field with an ever-increasing research base to support its findings and enormous potential of educational neuroscience.