Stories
Educator Profile: Kerry Blackwelder
When you enter Kerry Blackwelder’s room, the first thing you notice is her enthusiasm for reading; it is reflected in…
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Alumni Profile: Ruth Anderson and Mike McGranahan
Ruth Anderson and Mike McGranahan met while they were high school students at Hill School. They developed a friendship, went…
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Reading
Structured Literacy and the Science of Reading
“We TEACH reading in different ways; they LEARN to read proficiently in only one way.” – David Kilpatrick Learning to…
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Press
Hill Learning Center, David Kilpatrick, and Phonemic Proficiency
Hill Learning Center was featured on EdNC.org in an article that discusses phonemic proficiency. The feature highlights David Kilpatrick, an…
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Math
From a Specialist: Interview with Marilyn Zecher M.A., CALT on Multisensory Math
“All students benefit when they are freed from the burden of retrieving unfamiliar facts. We should never stop building fluency…
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Stories
Alumni Profile: Charlie Atwater
When Charlie Atwater enrolled at Hill School as a sixth-grader in 1986, there was no Board of Directors. Charlie would…
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