Curriculum Matters
@CurriculumMatrs
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We're educators building a national PLN around work with high-quality curriculum, from finding it to successfully implementing it. #CurriculumMatters
Joined November 2018
Our Professional Learning Network has been growing! We're thrilled to introduce a number of new additions to our Squad in recent months – a reflection of the growing use of high-quality curriculum in districts across the country. #CurriculumMatters
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This is why viewing reading comprehension as a set of generic skills is so damaging. Excellent piece by @natwexler advocating for whole books. https://t.co/ZcGOkK5wda
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Meet the Sentence Troublemakers! 👉 Length (so longggg 😅) 👉 Density (too much packed in one spot) 👉 Embeddings (clauses inside clauses… inside clauses 🤯) 👉 Dependencies (who’s depending on who?!) 👉 Order (words all out of whack) Listen 🎙️ https://t.co/tQLzRoWk9Y
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Does it really make a difference if students read whole books rather than only brief texts & excerpts? Evidence indicates the answer is "yes." Plus it's a lot more engaging. @DougLemov @karenvaites @HKorbey See my new piece in American Educator: https://t.co/0nXmzY4fDX
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You can’t think deeply about what you haven’t been taught. 🎯Spot on, @dylanwiliam. Read more: https://t.co/gtUgmqKG9Y
#KnowledgeMatters
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Starting a new unit with a KWL chart to show the students they know more than they think and also pick their interest so they can engage in the content, Geology! #aldinestory @drgoffney
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Yes! I wrote an article on the importance of reading whole books that just came out in American Educator, & it makes many of the same points as @StamStam193 : https://t.co/0nXmzY3HOp
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@StamStam193 for the win… AGAIN! ⚡️“This is the power of reading whole books.”📚 https://t.co/3sVVICTX6J
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This thread is excellent!
To think critically about a Civil War soldier’s letter, students need factual/conceptual knowledge: Who fought for what? What the both sides believed. What battles were happening. Without that background, critical thinking is just guessing. Knowledge makes analysis possible. 🧵
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People sneer at “knowledge over skills” because they’ve forgotten how they learned anything. It’s the curse of knowledge: experts in science, history, math didn’t get good by winging it—they built massive stores of facts and concepts that made higher-order thinking possible.
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I like having my 5th graders complete quick writes as a way to practice using vocabulary and focusing on sentence composition like using appositive phrases etc. This was my favorite this week.
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True of math facts. And broad background knowledge. And a big vocabulary. The more you know, the more you understand and learn. Cognitive load theory, all the way down.
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Leave lots of space for writing and for students to explain the connections... and other thoughts on graphic organizers: https://t.co/VDYH1sKOMb
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Doug recently got a note from a teacher in Texas who had read our recent book, The Teach Like a Champion Guide to the Science of Reading, and was especially interested in making social studies...
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Teachers: struggling to fit history into the day? 🕰️ Our newest blog shares how building knowledge in ELA made history instruction possible and meaningful. 👉 https://t.co/b8hT8m7W1Z
#HistoryMatters #KnowledgeMatters
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As 2025 is wrapping up, I want to reflect on the 20 books that had enormous positive impact and made me a better educator:
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📣📣📣📣📣 Indeed!!
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What you measure matters. England has made huge progress in aligning its education system w/cognitive science. The US hasn't. Why? A new book by Nick Gibb suggests the reason lies in the different tests used for accountability. Read more in my new post: https://t.co/DyVtfdSIlA
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Expert teachers do not simply “notice more”; they have routinised ways of scanning the class, briefly zoom in on the disruption, then rapidly re engage with everyone else. Novices, by contrast, show more scattered, exploratory gaze behaviour and are more easily pulled off their
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The pedagogy of teaching phonics well is important. In this video, Dayla is so attentive to student attention (are they looking at the card?) & to who answers each question and how (cold call vs call & response) + her rhythm is a thing of beauty. https://t.co/CPJB84lvlr
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This week Jen Rugani and I have been presenting our first iteration of a new workshop, Foundational Literacy. Why a Foundational Literacy workshop? There’s been a massive and important migration...
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Understanding a sentence is the first step to understanding the whole text. ✨ Tune in with Nancy Hennessy & Julia Salamone for practical ways to help students make meaning at the sentence level. 🎙️ Listen 🎙️ https://t.co/RarmXW4DZS
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@natwexler reminds us in her latest Substack that real progress comes when teachers have both cognitive science and high-quality instructional materials grounded in that science. Strong science + strong curriculum = stronger learning. #KnowledgeMatters #CurriculumMatters
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🧱 Syntax is the architecture of language—the framework that guides how we put words in the right place when we speak and write. This episode with Nancy Hennessy & Julia Salamone breaks down why syntax matters—and how you can teach it. Listen 🎙️ https://t.co/RarmXW4DZS
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