Literacy Lass 💗📚
@LassReading
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Avid reader, passionate teacher, lifelong learner, mom of boys. “The future of the world is in my classroom today.” – Ivan W. Fitzwater
Joined July 2018
Perhaps this is the year people can stop defending the ridiculous. Students need to read full books. (They also need content knowledge).
Start 2026 catching up on trending topics: - Book-starved curriculum in the New York Times(!) - Curriculum Lists as Critical Failure Point - The Tradeoff Tightrope Our latest is a weekend reading list. Feat @DanaGoldstein @natwexler @C_Hendrick @dylanwiliam @KataSolow +
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Start 2026 catching up on trending topics: - Book-starved curriculum in the New York Times(!) - Curriculum Lists as Critical Failure Point - The Tradeoff Tightrope Our latest is a weekend reading list. Feat @DanaGoldstein @natwexler @C_Hendrick @dylanwiliam @KataSolow +
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"Early data on the effects of school phone bans confirm what teachers and administrators have long suspected—that phones in the classroom were the primary culprit behind bad behavior and low engagement." From @juliejargon at @WSJ
https://t.co/RDeHkjuKB6
wsj.com
When the screens are out of the way, kids are back to being kids—without the temptation to zone out electronically.
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The organizations reviewing ELA curricula don’t see eye to eye on what matters. The result is a mishmash of signals for states and districts to navigate. My latest is a lay of the ELA curriculum review landscape.
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My third most-read piece of 2025 took a closer look at the curricula used in Louisiana and Tennessee, two of the Southern Surge states. Spoiler: it had many important things in common. The curriculum landscape in these two states looks nothing like the rest of the country.
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@AndyPierrotti continues to shine a light on Georgia’s literacy crisis. We know what works, science-based reading instruction, but too many kids are still not learning to read. @georgiadeptofed are you ready to pull ALL the levers and stop the grandstanding?
atlantanewsfirst.com
State that jumped from 49th to 9th nationally in reading now guides other states seeking literacy improvements.
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What does it mean if the guy best-known for promoting innovation in education believes reading and writing is the biggest innovation opportunity in K-12? @gcouros
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Most Education Apps Fail Because They Don't Understand Instructional Invariants. Link in reply ⬇️
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Have you ever written something just because you can't fit in one more phone call to explain a problem everyone is trying to understand (and almost no one does)? Me, too. I talk a lot about the issues with state curriculum lists. They are all downstream of the issues with the
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Next time you’re talking with a colleague about retrieval practice and they say, “I already do this,” send them this article. The core of evidence-based practice isn’t just using the practice. It’s using it the way the evidence says it works.
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Fantastic read from @natwexler on the importance of whole books in the curriculum. Because of course there is evidence for this. "Reading whole novels can boost both students’ interest in reading and their reading comprehension scores. One study, which took place in England,
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Most educational apps don't work. Not "could be better." Not "work for some kids." They're architecturally incapable of producing reliable learning. Here's why 🧵
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I don’t think as much attention has been paid to implementing the curriculum as it has to the pedagogy to teach it. It’s a bit like going into a restaurant where all the effort has gone in to making it look amazing.. https://t.co/JvbiwZtPlS
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Content Quality FTW!
AMEN. An important nudge to everyone in K-12, including those in the Science of Learning community, from @MaryMyatt. 👉 The Curriculum Matters.
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@MathCurmudgeon It's a practice test that is completely not representative of “reading.” Micropassages + literal questions is a profoundly debased conception of literacy.
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“The threat that AI poses to intelligence is existential,” argue @drdavidajames and @C_Hendrick, “It allows children to outsource their thinking entirely” https://t.co/4DbZwduq7A
thecritic.co.uk
Of all the recent signs that Western civilization is circling the drain, the most depressing is the apparent decline in IQs. The so-called Flynn Effect once showed IQs rising steadily.
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Ed tech has a poor track record for producing student learning. @C_Hendrick pinpoints the reasons: ‘Clicking “Next” after watching a video is not learning. Selecting an answer from a multiple-choice array is a pale shadow of producing that answer from memory. Recognising a
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Phone-free schools work just as well in Latin America. A report from a survey in Uruguay: “There is a broad consensus that the measure was positive ” https://t.co/u462vBRCrx
montevideo.com.uy
El documento destaca las transformaciones que la política tuvo en el clima escolar, la convivencia y las dinámicas pedagógicas.
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Why is the @sfchronicle education journalist dissing a New York teacher’s outcomes… And putting forward logically-inconsistent arguments in the process? I think we are discovering why the Chronicle’s Science of Reading era coverage has been so poor. @DDCalifornia @mgpotente
@jilltucker @smorrisey Jill, I encourage you to look for districts with similar (ish) demographic profiles in the Bay Area. Or elsewhere in California. Or any state you can name. And find us proof that these demographics are a “recipe for success.” I don’t think you will need to be at the task long
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Significant, indeed.
This bodes ill. Readers used to outnumber non-readers 2 to 1. Now non-readers outnumber readers 3 to 1. It's hard to imagine a change of that magnitude not having significant effects.
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