January 24, 2012
The Highlander Institute recently received a $50,000 gift to develop tools that help teachers efficiently implement Response to Intervention (RTI) processes and services in their classrooms and schools. These tools will directly impact teachers and increase the power of their instruction; however, the ultimate goal behind the tools is to improve
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January 15, 2012
Tech startups have to start up somewhere. Ambitious entrepreneurs, well aware of a smartphone apps’ ease of delivery, set sights high—regional, national and global—right out of the gate. Several such startups are being developed right here in Rhode Island. One locally grown touch-screen application has already started to increase the
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December 15, 2011
Creative Curriculum Sparks Results at Highlander Oct 3, 2011 By Alli-Michelle Conti, Contributing Writer Charter schools are a chance to involve entire communities. Highlander Charter School takes that notion and runs with it. Other area public schools are, in fact, looking to them as a model. At the forefront of
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October 28, 2011
Over 200 educators from around the region descended upon Providence College on October 23rd to hear Reid Lyon and a host of excellent workshop presenters. Participants left this highly successful event full of tools, strategies, paradigms and optimism for supporting struggling learners in their care. For a full summary of the
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October 11, 2011
New England Post - 10/10/2011 The passing of Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs last week brought with it heartfelt tributes — shared on fans’ Facebook walls and Twitterfeeds — from the moment the news was made public. Pictures, quotes and videos, countless likely posted from devices that Jobs himself helped pioneer
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June 08, 2011
Click to Watch Video Interested in how touch technology can revolutionize teaching and learning at your school? Talk to the experts at Highlander Dunn, who can help you use various touch platforms to: * increase differentiated instruction * improve the proficiency of struggling learners * address curriculum gaps * build
Read More →TIVERTON — Test score success at Tiverton’s Fort Barton Elementary School is being touted by the Rhode Island Literacy Project (RILP) as evidence of the benefits of school-based literacy reform. Highlander Dunn Institute, the organization that spearheads the RILP, pointed to results at the four participating state elementary schools following
Read More →While NECAP scores remained flat at the elementary levels across the state, the four partner elementary schools of the Rhode Island Literacy Project (run by the Highlander Dunn Institute) have experienced significant progress in reading over the past three years since the Project’s launch. “The fact that our four partner
Read More →As schools continue to wrestle with how to effectively match academic interventions with student needs, the Highlander-Dunn Institute and Cumberland Public Schools have partnered to develop an extended learning time model to raise the literacy proficiency of struggling readers. The model, which blends research-based literacy interventions with a strong emphasis
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