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Clara Maria Fiorentini

@clarafiorentini.bsky.social

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Fio-ren-tini 🇮🇪🇮🇹 Teacher Educator / Lecturer in Literacy Education 💬📚📝 Past-President: Literacy Association of Ireland (2024) Literacy | Children’s Literature | Read-alouds Views = mine Occasional blogger: www.claramariafiorentini.com

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Clara Maria Fiorentini @clarafiorentini.bsky.social · 11d

Free webinar on Informational Text in the Senior Primary Classroom, tomorrow at 7pm: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Clara Maria Fiorentini @clarafiorentini.bsky.social · Aug 3

Increased capacity! Recording & resource pack included for all registered 📚⬇️

Clara Maria Fiorentini @clarafiorentini.bsky.social · Jul 11

Registration is open for this two hour webinar on August 26! Places limited: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Clara Maria Fiorentini @clarafiorentini.bsky.social · Aug 3

Increased capacity! Recording & resource pack included for all registered 📚⬇️

Clara Maria Fiorentini @clarafiorentini.bsky.social · Jul 11

Registration is open for this two hour webinar on August 26! Places limited: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Clara Maria Fiorentini @clarafiorentini.bsky.social · Jul 11

Registration is open for this two hour webinar on August 26! Places limited: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Clara Maria Fiorentini @clarafiorentini.bsky.social · Jun 11

Summer course season is fast approaching! Lots of great options @marinoinstitute.bsky.social as per usual! www.mie.ie/en/study_wit...

Clara Maria Fiorentini @clarafiorentini.bsky.social · May 19

So looking forward to this 👏💡🌊 Join us from 7-8pm on Wednesday evening.
✅ beautiful texts
✅ engaging activities 📖✍️🗣️
✅ suited to primary teachers of all ages & stages
✅playback recording available to all who register 🎥

Jen O’Sullivan @readwritejen.bsky.social · May 19

Coming up this Wednesday! Join @clarafiorentini.bsky.social and myself for a special webinar on lighthouses and literacy. Packed with creative, end-of-year ideas. Lots of inspiration to carry you through the last few weeks! literacy-channel.mykajabi.com/offers/nG9rC...

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Clara Maria Fiorentini @clarafiorentini.bsky.social · Mar 3

😂❤️📚

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Rebecca Broderick @rebeccabroderick.bsky.social · Mar 3

Some really interesting perspectives on choosing ‘read-alikes’ and not relying on texts that we’ve always used or are more familiar to us. Using the familiar to reinvigorate our choices and supplementing our comfort texts to build knowledge 🙌🏻🥰
@clarafiorentini.bsky.social
#edchatie

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Sarah Webb @sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social · Feb 7

Time for my regular post for new writers about picture books.
You do NOT need illustrations to submit a picture book text to an agent or publisher. Please do not pay anyone to create illustrations for you. It’s not necessary, you just need the text.

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Jen O’Sullivan @readwritejen.bsky.social · Jan 31

Very excited about our symposium on assessment in literacy this March and even more excited to hear from our special guest Dr Jan Hasbrouck. Registration is open now. literacy-channel.mykajabi.com/offers/z2z3M...

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Clara Maria Fiorentini @clarafiorentini.bsky.social · Jan 31

Dr Jan Hasbrouck is joining us for our next literacy symposium on March 8.
Registration now open: literacy-channel.mykajabi.com/offers/z2z3M...

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natejoseph.bsky.social @natejoseph.bsky.social · Dec 29

Does research suggest that structured literacy is more effective than balanced literacy? I’ve spent a long time trying to answer this question, here are my current thoughts:

www.teachingbyscience.com/systematic-p...

Structured Literacy | Teaching By Science

Evidence Based Education

www.teachingbyscience.com

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Patrick Burke @patjburke.bsky.social · Dec 16

What do we need to bear in mind as we move forward with a new Primary School Curriculum?

In a new article for the Irish Teachers' Journal, @paulalehane.bsky.social and I highlight key points from two research reports we published last year.

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Abstract text: Intensive debate surrounds integration, pedagogy, and assessment in educational research.
While these fundamental concepts have regularly been explored individually, they have rarely
been considered in tandem with each other. Research (Burke & Lehane, 2023a, 2023b) to support
the redevelopment of the Primary School Curriculum has highlighted a number of critical
issues for their design and enactment, both individually and in concert. In this article, we chart
the affordances and challenges of curriculum integration, highlighting principles that might
inform its curricular and classroom implementation. The manifold perspectives on pedagogy
are synthesised to highlight convergence and contradiction in the available literature. The
crucial role of assessment in sustaining ongoing learning is outlined. In synthesising the
literature from these areas, the article looks back and projects forwards, identifying meaningful
innovations, potential issues and key implications for the coming period of curriculum reform.

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Clara Maria Fiorentini @clarafiorentini.bsky.social · Dec 5

Thank you!

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Joe O'Hara @joeoharadcu.bsky.social · Nov 30

Two weeks on and this is still going. If you are interested in joining, let me know. go.bsky.app/8FJAkMG

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Clara Maria Fiorentini @clarafiorentini.bsky.social · Dec 4

Can I join please? Thanks Joe! 😊

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Julian Girdham @sccenglish.bsky.social · Nov 25

It’s back!

In one week’s time #edchatie discusses education under a new government.

Tune in at 7.30 on Mon 2nd December.

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Clara Maria Fiorentini @clarafiorentini.bsky.social · Nov 20

Final tweaks ahead of tomorrow evening's webinar on effective use of novels in the senior primary classroom. Packed with lots of great text recommendations- and as always, plenty by Irish authors & illustrators! #discoveririshkidsbooks
Free registration: westcorkeducationcentre.ie/webinar/2823...

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Clara Maria Fiorentini @clarafiorentini.bsky.social · Nov 20

Completely agree 👏

Clara Maria Fiorentini @clarafiorentini.bsky.social · Nov 20

Yay! Great to see you over here Niall 👏

Clara Maria Fiorentini @clarafiorentini.bsky.social · Nov 19

Great to attend the launch of the DCU Centre for Literacy Research, Policy & Practice this evening. The marvellous turnout on a cold Tuesday evening is a reflection of the great interest and commitment to literacy research in Ireland 👏 @dcuioe.bsky.social @patjburke.bsky.social

Clara Maria Fiorentini @clarafiorentini.bsky.social · Nov 19

Thank you ☺️

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Patrick Burke @patjburke.bsky.social · Nov 18

✍️📖💭

A bunch of #literacy focused #EdChatIE folk have started appearing on BlueSky.

A Starter Pack for this interesting intersection:
go.bsky.app/QtfSG3e

I've surely missed some new joiners - and will hopefully welcome many more very soon!

#WeknowourABCs

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Clara Maria Fiorentini @clarafiorentini.bsky.social · Nov 18

Could you add me too, please? 📚☺️

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Clara Maria Fiorentini @clarafiorentini.bsky.social · Nov 18

The lamp is back on my newsfeed. Now this really feels like old times 👏💚