Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the DNC. “I, for one, am tired of hearing about how a two bit union buster thinks of himself as more of a patriot than the woman who fights every single day to lift working people out from under the boots of greed trampling on our way of life.”

Hilary Clinton knocked it out of the park at the DNC tonight.

Yep.

From Jeanne Chall’s Learning to Read: The Great Debate (1967)

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There is no one program that can provide all things to all students. Teachers need ongoing professional learning to build their capacity to meet the needs of the students in front of them.

Also education as a field & those outside the field have an idealistic to delusional view of instruction & curriculum (& assessment, frankly). This obsession with "high quality" or the "right" instruction/curriculum/test is part of the reform problem At best those are secondary

Hard Words/Sold a Story dramatically misrepresented reading scores and reading instruction, but the sensationalism has created very bad reading legislation that is also overly simplistic. Neither the previous status quo nor the SOR fad is acceptable 2/2

Anyone is free to admit error and start again. NAEP has been flat for 30 years. If, how, and how much phonics has been taught has NOT been monolithic. And tests scores are impacted by OOS factors at 60+% with teacher impact between 1-14% https://t.co/ZDtKlSzY6l 1/2

Appreciate the acknowledgment - and concern- that SOR is not a program, but rather a body of research about the methods for effective reading instruction. I am hopeful that the door is opening for a more collaborative conversation.

DPS elementary schools welcome the amazing Dan Santat!

Recommended: Fact-checking the Science of Reading, Rob Tierney and P David Pearson https://t.co/HP4InP9OMU via @plthomasEdD

Teachers deserve to be treated as professionals | Guest opinion https://t.co/9JW3Rtvavw via @beaconjournal

@mrbansteacher @tiffany_peltier @Eduventuring04 @ehanford Then let’s push for PD. Without it, nothing works. We ran a scale up last year with 80 schools and found no differences in ELA outcomes according to curriculum used (Wonders, EL etc) but the amount of PD provided mattered. PD in effective practices is the bigger lever

There *should* be one more Sold a Story episode Full retraction and apology Tierney and Pearson cited and then franchise shuttered

Board of Education 2-15-24 https://t.co/VpFjwvwWio via @YouTube Everyone in CT should watch this Cheshire BOE meeting, where Representative Curry speaks to the misguided efforts of the CSDE in their implementation of the Right to Read legislation.

If state policies were really about the #scienceofreading, closing #opportunitygaps or what is right for kids they would invest in #infrastructure that creates optimal conditions for learning. Curriculum adoption BANDAIDS just show schools are fronts for corporate greed.

Trump Is Losing It

Yes, please!

Another episode I just had to share with all of our teachers! Tim Rasinski always has so many great ideas!