These Are Their Stories
CRL began as an organization focused on struggling adolescent learners in secondary schools. In large measure, and to our professional satisfaction, that is still what we do today. These stories capture a sense of the broad array of challenges we have met head-on through our development of the Strategic Instruction Model® and related research.
Jarquise Wallace's Student Success: Decoding skills leap six grade levels using the Word Identification Strategy
Katelyn Hagen's Teaching Success: Xtreme Reading in North Carolina
Swain County Middle School Success: Rural school's Dream Team initiates big change with Xtreme Reading
Jessica Milton's Teaching Success: A journey from memorization to understanding multiplication and division with the Strategic Math Series Multiplication Facts 0-81 and Division Facts 0-81
Student Matt Gauer's Story of sweet success
Brooklyn Middle STEAM School Success: 30 Years with SIM
The first SIM Profile School: Laura Belle Wallace Middle School in Kyle, Texas.
Striving Readers Grant Success: Greetings from Wolf Point, Montana and Three components for SIM success at Montana high school
Shana Paterson's student success: The Sentence Writing and Paragraph Writing Strategies: "A million reasons"
Speech Language Pathologist Susan Trumbo's SIM Tools of the Trade
Gina Bruhn and Stuart Zizzo's Student Success
Sabrina Saleh is on her way to nursing school
Katherine Green and Larissa Bell teaching success: SIM Writing Strategies with advanced students in accelerated courses
Jennifer Hunter teaching success: Using the Theme Writing Strategy with gifted students
Cooperative Thinking Strategies in Glastonbury Connecticut public schools
SIM sustainability and spread in Hays, Texas
Crafting an online course with Content Enhancement
Support of SIM at Mashburn Institute in Arkansas
Student success in Florida: SIM Learning Strategies helped turn a career goal in to reality
When Stephen Hanson was a teenager, SIM Learning Strategies transformed his life. As an adult, Hanson teaches strategies to students in the same middle school he once attended.
AP Calculus students at Riverbank High School in California like the Framing Routine for the organization it brings to their notes and for the way it helps them grasp difficult concepts in class.
Until she was introduced to SIM, a Virginia teacher thought that all she had to offer students were short-term fixes. Now, she feels empowered, confident, and more accomplished, and her students are models of the long-term benefits associated with SIM.
At Riverbank High School in California, scores on state competency tests rose more than 50 points in the first two years alone after the school adopted an extensive literacy improvement program based on SIM.
Cabot Middle School North was named an Arkansas Diamond School to Watch in 2008, and the Strategic Instruction Model sparkled as one of the school's areas of academic excellence.
Students who completed Muskegon High School's reading comprehension course, which consisted of four SIM strategies, performed better on the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Test at the end of the year than their peers at a comparison school.