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The Research Institute for Learning and Development
This interactive CD-ROM was developed by The Research Institute for Learning and Development and FableVision, Inc.
The FableVision Team:
- Peter H. Reynolds
- Paul Reynolds
- Karen Bresnahan
- John Lechner
- Noah Jones
- Kelly Fischbach
- Toby A. Smith
- Douglas Gastich
- Matt Ducharme
- Dave Tilton
- Sue Scully
- Matt Smith
- Andy LaMora
- Keith Lindenboom
- Tony Lechner
- Aziza Mercher
- Dawn Haley
- Jane Reynolds
- Gary Goldberger
The Research Institute for Learning and Development Team:
Directors: Lynn Meltzer, Ph.D. and Bethany Roditi, Ph.D.
- Susan Taber, M.Ed.
- Judith Stein, Ph.D.
- Joan Steinberg, M.Ed.
- Irene Papadopoulos, M.A.
- Kathleen Boyle, Ed.M.
Research Team: Phase 1:
- Wendy Stacey, M.Ed.
- Lynn Miller, M.Ed.
The Star Schools Team:
- Bill Norris
- Nichole Downes
- Michele Bouchard
Voices:
- Maya Parra (Narrator)
- Jack Clancy (Narrator)
- Gareth Reynolds (Samson, Pax)
- Vincent Siders (Emale)
- Wendisue Hall (Inez)
- Joy Lamberton (Keisha)
Funded in part by US Dept. of Education Grant # ED-99-CO-0125
DOE Star Schools, Grant #R203A70004
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The Research Institute for Learning and Development (ResearchILD)
The Institute for Learning and Development(ILD) and the Research Institute for Learning and Development (ResearchILD) are multi-disciplinary organizations dedicated to providing clinical services, teacher training, and research specializing in learning disabilities and attention deficit disorders. The ResearchILD mission is to create pathways to success for all learners by leveraging research and technology to develop and disseminate research-based multi-media educational materials. Their goal is to develop, evaluate, & promote strategies for successful learning for ALL students through research, program development, dissemination of instructional materials, teacher training, professional development, & scholarship support for educational services.
Lynn Meltzer, Ph.D. is Director of Assessment and Research at the Institute for Learning and Development and ResearchILD in Lexington, MA. She holds appointments as an Associate in Education at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education and as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Tufts University Department of Child Study. She is also President of the International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities. Her extensive publications and professional presentations include articles, chapters, and books relating to the assessment and treatment of learning difficulties with an emphasis on problem-solving processes, executive function processes, and learning strategies. Dr. Meltzer is the founder and chair of the national Learning Disorders Conference, now in its 21st year at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Learning Disabilities. Her most recent books are titled Strategies for Success: Classroom Teaching Techniques for Students with Learning Differences (co-authored with Bethany Roditi, Joan Steinberg, Susan Taber and others, 2nd ed.,Pro-Ed, 2005) and Understanding Executive Function: Implications and Opportunities for the Classroom (Guilford Press, in press). Together with her colleagues, she is currently working on a book for parents which provides practical strategies for homework, studying, and test-taking.
Dr. Roditi is co-founder and Director of Education of the Institute for Learning and Development and ResearchILD in Lexington, MA. She provides assessment, educational therapy, and consultation to children, adolescents, and adults with learning difficulties. She also consults extensively to public and private schools throughout the United States and Canada. Dr. Roditi’s research, publications, teacher-training, and school outreach has focused on assessment, strategy instruction, and prevention of learning problems in the area of mathematics. Previously, she was the Assistant Director of the Learning Laboratory at the Center for Applied Special Technology, and she was a psychoeducational diagnostician at The Children’s Hospital. She also served as the Coordinator of Special Education for the Concord-Carlisle (MA) Regional School District and taught mathematics at Concord-Carlisle High School. Dr. Roditi received her Ph.D. in Applied Child Development from the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study at Tufts University. She is a co-author of Strategies for Success: Classroom Teaching Techniques for Students with Learning Problems (Pro-Ed, 2005) a strategy instructional manual for addressing multiple learning profiles in today’s inclusive classroom.
FableVision,
Inc.
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FableVision is committed to creating positive programming and story-based, engaging media for children and adults. Under the leadership of Founder/CEO Peter Reynolds and President Paul Reynolds, FableVision aims to craft "stories that matter, stories that move." Founded in 1996, FableVision has already gained an international reputation for its unique brand of innovative storytelling.
From our work with the education community, FableVision understands the concerns of creating a fun and engaging product without losing the strong ties to maintaining curriculum standards, educational value and high-end professional development assistance in every product we’ve created.
FableVision has the reputation for producing educational products for classrooms that are not only sound curriculum supplements, but also have that special FableVision signature of teaching while being thought provoking at the same time.
Prior to launching FableVision in 1996, Peter was Vice President and Creative Director of Tom Snyder Productions for over a decade; a leading educational software producer and publisher, where his creative vision helped the TSP team produce many award-winning titles. Peter also created twenty interactive children’s stories for the Internet on-line service Prodigy in the early 90s, which generated 3,000 to 5,000 on-line letters from children every month - this in 1993 when web connections were sparse and slow.
A wellspring of creativity and an advocate of "life-long" learning, Peter plays an instrumental role in the overall creative concept development of "playful learning" applications/media for the workplace, schools and museums. Peter has an ingenious ability to create key metaphors that teach, motivate, and inspire, and that transform abstract concepts into concrete, easy to understand stories and visuals. Peter has conceived and designed exciting and imaginative products for a wide variety of media platforms for a broad spectrum of clients including MediaOne, Staples, Sheraton, Fidelity, Apple, PBS, and Simon & Schuster. He has also written and illustrated several books with Candlewick Press, Athaneum Books for Young Readers, Penguin Putnam, and Simon & Schuster . His first book The North Star, which has become the cornerstone of FableVision's philosophy, is about life-long learning and was voted #47 in the National Education Association’s Top 100 Book List for Children from a pool of 8,100 nominated titles. Peter was honored to receive a Christopher Award for his book The Dot, which has been translated into over 20 languages. Both The Dot and Ish books are now animated films that FableVision partnered with Scholastic/Weston Woods to animate. For more information on Peter's author/illustrator projects, please visit www.peterhreynolds.com.
