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Multiple Houston-area school districts say more students are failing at least 1 class
Anson Koshy, MD, spoke to KTRK-TV Channel 13 about the potential factors contributing to high failing rates among students this year.
Challenges of Online Learning
Dr. Tricia Zucker, Co-Director of CLI, offers a tips for parents for virtual learning success.
Adjusting to Online Learning
Dana DeMaster, PhD, offers advice for parents struggling to support their children with online learning.
Advice from Houston educators for parents to help students with online instruction
Dr. Dana DeMaster, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at CLI, offers tips for parents struggling to balance work, home, and their child's virtual learning.
CLI Leadership Transition: Welcome Our New Co-Directors
After more than 17 remarkable years serving as the director of the Children’s Learning Institute at UTHealth, Susan Landry, Ph.D. stepped down as CLI’s director effective August 31, 2020, continuing in her faculty position. April Crawford, Ph.D. and Tricia Zucker, Ph.D., Associate Professors at UTHealth, assumed co-direction of CLI on September 1, 2020.
Tips for heading into virtual learning with special needs children
Dr. Anson Koshy is a developmental and behavioral pediatrician with UT Physicians and McGovern Medical School at UTHealth and is also affiliated with the Children’s Learning Institute. He shares some tips for heading into a new school year virtually.
60% of New Caney ISD parents uncomfortable sending students back to school
Dr. Tricia Zucker, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, with the Children's Learning Institute says, "Flexibility should just be the new mantra this year. I think all of us have to go into this school year thinking about how we're going to be open minded to whatever comes, and yet we're also going to be prepared for some worst case scenarios."
Children’s Learning Institute offers online tutoring options
The Children’s Learning Institute has adapted its Academic Enrichment and Outreach (AERO) program to an online platform to offer year-round tutoring sessions.
With summer camp plans in limbo, experts from CLI offer tips to recreate learning and fun at home
CLI experts share advice for families trying to recreate summer learning experiences for their children.
A Jump Start to Lifelong Learning: Texas State Legislature Enhances Support to Early Childhood Development
Susan H. Landry, PhD and Founding Director of CLI, recounts program changes and future plans impacted by funding.
