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The literacy learning journey of several AIM families were featured in a recent comprehensive article about reading instruction in Philadelphia-area classrooms in The Philadelphia Inquirer. The article, "A battle over how to teach kids to read is playing out in Philly-area classrooms. Parents are losing trust," was published online on February 21 and featured in the Sunday newspaper on February 25. The article focuses on the importance of structured literacy instruction to support readers, especially students with language-based learning differences like dyslexia and dysgraphia like those served at AIM Academy.
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AIM Summer Enrichment Director Erin DeVault shared her unique perspective as a first-time camp parent in a February 19th article in The Chestnut Hill Local. Read this heartwarming piece here.
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The January 2023 issue of Suburban Life magazine features a cover story about AIM Academy and our commitment to innovation and technology which helps students thrive, now and into the future. Read more today!
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The March 2022 issue of MetroKids magazine features an article written by AIM Interactive Humanities teacher Stacy Stackhouse about how the arts-infused program supports students learning of history, vocabulary and the world. Read more here.
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Read how AIM builds on its pioneering educational program to help students with language-based learning differences realize that "anything is possible" in the April 2021 issue of Suburban Life magazine.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer recently featured a story about AIM's innovative curriculum and intentional skill building in a special education section. Read more to learn how students with language-based learning differences benefit from an innovative curriculum grounded in literacy research integrated throughout all subject areas.
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A blog post this week by AIM Head of School Chris Herman describes how AIM's Remote Learning program is working to prevent COVID-Slide and provides suggestions and tips for other schools.
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AIM teacher and biking coach Anne Rock is featured in a recent article by VeloNews sharing how riding can help support kids with learning differences.
Read the VeloNews article: "Using bikes to ride over learning barriers" here.
Videos and TV Coverage
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The construction of Sam's Place, which honors the memory of AIM alum Sam Ozer '20 and will be the home of AIM's new bike tech program, was highlighted by 6ABC news. The story shares how Sam's Place was created and highlights the design team from Trek Bikes during their visit to complete the interior of the new space. Watch Story.
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In December 2019, AIM founders Pat Roberts and Nancy Blair shared their story of partnership and entrepreneurship at the SEI Women's Network Leadership Summit. Their TED talk-style presentation can be viewed here.
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AIM's unique educational model supporting children with learning differences and our research institute were featured in April 2020 on WHYY's Movers & Makers.
The episode's theme, Pioneering Women, highlighted the journey of AIM co-founders Pat Roberts and Nancy Blair who first met as parents searching for the best education for their daughters.
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Hopping on a bike to find clarity in the classroom, that’s the philosophy behind the Riding for Focus program offered to Middle School students at AIM Academy. It’s helping students not only increase their grade point averages, but their confidence. PBS 39 Health Reporter Brittany Sweeney caught up with 14-year-old Zander Boward on the bike path to talk about why he rides 15 miles each way to school.
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It's safe to say Kelly is paws down the most popular staff member at AIM Academy. Paws and Affection, a Narberth-based nonprofit, trains service dogs like Kelly to empower kids who have disabilities. Learn more about Kelly's work at AIM in this story aired on KYW News Radio.
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Fox 29 Good Morning Philadelphia reporter Jennaphr Frederick joined AIM students in the ACC on Friday, April 12 to talk Philadelphia 76ers and their playoff hopes.
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Conshohocken’s AIM Academy is the first educational partner of the Haskins Global L2 (Language & Literacy) Innovation Hub, officials announced Monday, part of a larger effort to boost literacy and language skills in kids at risk for reading-based learning difficulties.
AIM, and the school’s research arm, the AIM Institute for Learning and Research, will work with the hub — affiliated with Haskins Laboratories, part of Yale University — to start the IGNITE Center. It will bring researchers and educators together to bring cutting-edge neuroscience research into the classroom.
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More than 650 educators will learn from nationally-recognized reading researchers on Monday, March 12th when the AIM Institute for Learning & Research, the internationally-recognized professional development and research arm of AIM Academy, a grade 1-12 for children with language-based learning differences, hosts its 6th Annual Research to Practice Symposium.
The theme of the free, daylong symposium, Reading Proficiency: Differences That Matter – Another Look at High Risk Populations – Literacy Development & Practices That Work, offers a rare opportunity for education’s most innovative experts to meet and share ideas with education practitioners and policy makers from across the country in a highly interactive online summit and live gathering.