Jamie Metsala 🇨🇦
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Literacy Researcher & Advocate for Effective Early Reading Instruction & Reading Interventions, MSVU, Halifax, NS, Canada - personal account
Joined November 2019
Had the opportunity to chat with the amazing @rastokke about teaching all our students to read - shout out to @LindaSiegel1 @profwool , strong advocacy & 🇨🇦 teachers!
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Chalk & Talk · Episode
This was a great listen! Bravo @rastokke & @JamieMetsala on such a clear & measured analysis. Loved the observation that we "give ourselves a B" if 70% of kids can do something - and a pat on the back. Masterful critique of three-cuing history & pitfalls too. A must-listen.
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Continuing the discussion on identifying and diagnosing dyslexia. @LindaSiegel1 @Center4Reading #dyslexia
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Holden et al. (2025) conducted a Delphi study to establish consensus on how to define, identify, and assess dyslexia, with the definitional component primarily reported by Carroll et al. (2025)....
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6000 Gr. 3 kids in TDSB didn't meet the provincial reading requirements. This is Canada's largest school board! What do we say to those kids and their families? Read this again because luckily you can read but those kids can't. And what will happen to them in Gr.4, 5..? #onted
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Ontario’s Human Rights Commission concluded that its school system is systematically failing to teach children to read. Not because teachers don’t care, but because the system relies on approaches we’ve known for years don’t work. The report is clear: too many pupils are being
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📘 Page n of the playbook: when it becomes clear your preferred education ideology isn’t producing learning, shift the blame. It's poverty, mental health, anything but the approach itself. Hard to avoid deflection when the whole ideology is built on sand. ⚠️In light of a Human
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Agree! This is an important text for teachers & educational leaders—helps build understanding of why advanced literacy is the goal, what that means, & what that looks like for curriculum & instruction. Equity through excellence in instruction and excellence in outcomes.
Must-read text in any district interested in advanced literacy outcomes.
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Maybe outcomes like this should be in criminal court too—same for math outcomes. Manitoba’s students need those leading the education system and FoE’s to do much, much better—anyone arguing for the same failed approaches, programs & interventions is not in this for the students.
Percentage of Grade 3 students in MB Not meeting expectations in reading. 55%
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Thoughts on the Definition of Dyslexia. 2025. https://t.co/cBqk582cap ''The inclusion of “effective classroom instruction” in the definition of dyslexia shifts responsibility for reading failure from the instructional approach to the child.''
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Annals of Dyslexia - The International Dyslexia Association’s current definition of dyslexia was approved by its Board of Directors on November 12, 2002. After two decades of scientific...
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A wonderful moment -- deeply grateful for this recognition and the work of the researchED community.
Lasting Memories: One of the real highlights of researchED Atlantic Canada 25 was presenting Dr Jamie Metsala with the first researchED Canada Award of Excellence. The first recipient of any award sets the standard #rEDATCan25 Ty @NicoleJConrad for capturing the moment #NSed
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Closing Panel: Building Together Panel moderated by Dr Jamie Metsala closes #rEDATCan25 Great engagement and smart questions right to the end of conference day. Ty @JUMP_Math @smuhalifax @HalifaxLearning for your support #nbed #literacy #mathed
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Wow…what a day of learning about literacy and numeracy. If you’ve never attended a ResearchEd event as a teacher or school/system leader in these areas, make it a priority for your learning. @JamieMetsala
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@KateJones_teach @NicoleJConrad @Educhatter @amandavande1 @JamieMetsala @tombennett71 Star of the evening! First recipient of the researchED Canada Award of Excellence, Dr Jamie Metsala (MSVU)
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Raising the Banners! Welcoming Speakers and Registrants Tomorrow. Excitement builds for researchED Atlantic Canada (Oct 24-25) at the Lord Nelson Hotel & Saint Mary"s University. See you soon @amandavande1 #GeorgeGeorgiou @LeslieLaud @johnmighton @KateJones_teach @JamieMetsala
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Getting Revved Up - to Welcome two Outstanding Educators - the amazing founder of @JUMPMath_es John Mighton and luminous UK teacher Kate Jones @KateJones_teach Still time to snag tickets for #rEDATCan25 (Sat Oct 25/25) @smuhalifax See you there! Over to @tombennett71 #NSed
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Can’t think of a more timely workshop for NS educators. Andrea Fraser (@andrea__dunk ) is the expert to help NS get this right! @MSVU_Halifax
Speaker Spotlight: Halifax literacy specialist Dr. Andrea Fraser @MSVU_Halifax is presenting at researchED Atlantic Canada (Sat Oct 25/25) on "Screening Data and Reading Assessment" Early literacy teachers will really find this session of great value in their classrooms #NSed
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What a Schedule and Roster of Speakers! Fasten your seatbelts and prepare to be inspired by researchED Atlantic Canada (Oct 25/25). Look Who's on our Program: @amandavande1 #GeorgeGeorgiou @JamieMetsala @LeslieLaud @KateJones_teach @johnmighton and many others #Nsed #NBed #HRCE
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Well, that’s not something one wakes up to every day. What a wonderful tribute -- thank you, Paul, for the kind words and generosity. @MSVU_Halifax
A Morning Smile: My tribute to Nova Scotia's literacy champion - Dr Jamie Metsala. A week from today we gather at researchED Atlantic Canada (Sat Oct 25/25) to celebrate the progress we have made in bring the science of learning to our classrooms #RighttoRead #NSed #cdned
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Big Reveal: Our researchED Atlantic Canada 2025 Program. Flash and Substance! Join us on Sat Oct 25 @SMUHalifax for @amandavande1 #GeorgeGeorgiou @LeslieLaud @JamieMetsala @johnmighton @KateJones_teach and a Special Chalk&Talk Podcast with @rastokke #SoRNS #cdned #NSed
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So looking forward to our educators having the opportunity to hear from Dr Conrad in her session, and I am grateful for her work as chair on this event. Hope to meet familiar and new friends at researchED Atlantic Canada!
Speaker Spotlight: Our researchED Atlantic Canada Chair @NicoleJConrad will present a session at #rEDATCan25 (Oct 25/25) on "Incorporating Spelling into Structured Literacy" based upon her own empirical research. That's educational leadership by example! Over to @smuhalifax
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Best Possible Professional Development: Classroom Teachers presenting, drawing on their own expertise & experience teaching literacy. Just a few examples from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Join us @researchEDCan (Sat Oct 25/25) at @smuhalifax #NSed #HRCE #ASDWest #cdned
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