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An important component of Delaware Valley Friends School’s stated mission is to share its expertise with professionals beyond the school community.

This section of our website is dedicated to providing research-based resources, information, insight and training opportunities to our professional colleagues, including teachers, graduate students, psychologists, educational consultant, psycho-educational testers, school counselors, and others who work with young people with learning disabilities/differences and their families. You will also find information about our school and program to share with your clients and colleagues.

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DVFS Math Teachers Attend NCTM Conference

Posted May 8, 2013

Delaware Valley Friends School math teachers Claire Wanamaker, Barbara Cahill, and Caitlin Sullivan-Thompson attended the annual NCTM (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics) Conference this April in Denver, Colorado. The NCTM is the public voice of mathematics education, supporting teachers to ensure equitable mathematics learning of the highest quality for all students through vision, leadership, professional development, and research. While at the conference, the DVFS teachers heard several speakers and participated in workshops to learn about new and best practices in teaching secondary mathematics - including how to better use innovative technology in the classroom. Mayim Bialik, Amy on The Big Bang Theory, was the opening speaker.

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Rethinking our Definition of Fluency

Posted March 18, 2013

Highlighted as one of the five pillars of literacy by the National Reading Panel (2000), fluency instruction is an integral component of any researched based reading curriculum. Lessons that include fluency instruction and assessment are standard practice throughout schools yet “experts still disagree about the precise definition of reading fluency” (Morris & Gaffney, 2011, p. 331). How can it be that experts cannot agree upon this definition when fluency “is often responsible for driving major instructional decisions?” (as cited in Kuhn, Schwanenflugel, Meisinger, 2010, p. 230). If we do not have an agreed upon definition of fluency, how do we know we are assessing it correctly? Are there additional components to fluency that we are not currently assessing and using to inform our instruction? A discussion of recent research answers these questions and seeks to enhance our current instruction and assessment of fluency.

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Summer SAT/ACT Prep at DVFS:

Posted March 14, 2013

There will be a mandatory orientation for those students who are enrolled in the DVFS summer SAT/ACT prep course. The orientation will be held on Tuesday, May 28 at 7pm. Each student must have a parent or guardian attend this meeting as well. Questions: contact Hallie Ciarlone at hallie.ciarlone@dvfs.org
DVFS PRESENTS AT NAIS

Posted March 7, 2013

NAIS - On Friday, March 1, 2013, a contingent of teachers and students from DVFS presented “Students Teaching Teachers Tech: Cutting-Edge Technologies on Parade” at the National Association of Independent Schools Annual Conference in Philadelphia.

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A two-day seminar in English Etymology

Posted January 23, 2013

Etymology! The Science of Word Stories. Presented by LEX author Gina Cooke with Online Etymology Dictionary author Douglas Harper. More information and registration is available on the attached flyer. Contact Gina Cooke for information.

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