Contex matters www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5T5...

Don't let Lexia or Louisa Moats trick you into thinking that there's research to support LETRS professional development. There is none. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM6Q...

So instead of fighting for smaller classes and more time to plan and collaborate with actual humans, districts will jump on this as the bold, innovative solution to teacher workload, and then gradually use the "efficiencies" to ... increase teacher workload. Why are we so gullible and short-sighted

Your toddler wants nothing more than to be like you.

To walk like you. To talk like you. To emulate your every move.

And sometimes they can get pretty creative about their approach.

I just love this video shared to TT by h3yitskaylee.

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Give them the joy of reading, it's never too soon!

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'We need poetry … We deserve poetry / We owe it to ourselves to re-create ourselves / and find a different if not better way to live.'
Nikki Giovanni
– Acolytes, 2007

We Teach English in Times of Perpetual Crisis: Selling a Story of Reading (and Literacy) [Webinar Companion Post] radicalscholarship.com/2024/11/23/w...

“How was your day, Cora?!”

This video is such a lovely illustration of toddler play that I couldn’t resist sharing.

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The science of reading for pleasure

'it’s worth considering what might happen to us as a species if skills like reading become less prioritised. Our capacity to interpret the world around us and understand the minds of others would surely diminish' theconversation.com/people-who-a...

It seems to be denied or ignored by those who are in favour of the practice. And worse, other parts of the world are just now implementing similar universal screening instead of learning from UK experience.

Why hasn't this report had more publicity and more discussion? Or have I just missed it? The compulsory phonics screening test is taking up huge amounts of classroom time & yet seems to have no beneficial impact on either reading or writing.

epi.org.uk/publications...

So children are performing better on the tasks in the phonics screening, which makes sense given the mandated push for focusing on these skills. The article is citing evidence that reading achievement has not really changed & that fewer children are reading for pleasure. That is troubling.

Where does the idea come from that inquiry-based learning is the driving philosophy & principal practice of American public schools? It's a criticism I see frequently to justify a "shift" toward teacher-driven instruction when, from what I can tell, we never left in the first place. 🤷🏼‍♂️

A unique opprtunity for Early Childhood Educators!

Please share widely!!

literacyconference.org/sessions/prek/

I wrote a whole paper in graduate school criticizing the Units of Study, so I’m not a fan by any means. Still, this is insane and sets a horrific precedent. It’s the type of zealotry that can only be found in the newly converted & under informed.

www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

Wait, people are suing over curriculum??? Look, I’m a *huge* fan of public scholarship. It’s how I position most of my work & is sorely needed right now—but the fact a journalist podcaster with zero research background has set the literacy legislative agenda for half the country is wildly unhinged.

Do you mean that the number of children passing the phonics screening has increased?

A unique opprtunity for Early Childhood Educators!

Please share widely!!

literacyconference.org/sessions/prek/

Thank you!

This absolutely thrills me. We protested so hard for so long against Act 10

Fun fact about teaching at my Danish school: when we are sick, we’re not required to write sub plans because we’re sick.

The subs are paid well to come up with their own activities with the students. We also have the same staff of subs all year, so the students know them fairly well.

US teachers, can you even imagine this happening?? Because, and I’m not exaggerating, it would be life changing 😭

A Christmas #maths mystery is unraveling...