If you care about neurodiversity, linguistic diversity, cultural diversity, racial justice, disability justice you can't ignore the potential of any curriculum or curriculum policy to exclude and erase. Especially when curriculum is being used as a lever for reform.

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RT @sandylocks: We know now that what they're coming after is not one form of thinking. It's not Black history, it's not intersectionality,….

9/10 times I signed on here when it was the blue-🐦, it was to see what @jmhenner had to say about the world and bounce off to jon-inspired side quests. In celebration of the 43rd anniversary of his birth, I'm going to give #BlueskySocial a try. See you there or beyond.

Black women have saved democracy enough times to deserve more than cosmetic diversity. We deserve more than hope and change. We deserve recognition and power. Above all, we deserve better than a post at the head of a sinking ship that reveres the iceberg.

"Holding Vigil" by Alison Luterman via @rattlepoetry.

RT @joshcowenMSU: Most of this spending went to kids who were already in private school before getting vouchers. ht….

teachers using American sign language used student-centered approaches, generating a greater number of directives and responsive utterances. They persevered in increasing students’ engagement and were successful in clarifying misunderstandings.

"Teachers using spoken English [made more] general comments directed at the whole class. They also largely avoided repairing communication breakdowns with emergent writers, focusing instead on those with greater auditory and speaking abilities.".

The cost of distraction. $3.2bn.

RT @JAustinEDU: It's so depressing to watch tech evangelists + their corporate ed reformer allies continue to push AI into public schools t….

RT @joshcowenMSU: JD Vance recently said “the professors are the enemy.”. A certain right-wing think tank is busy combing through hundreds….

RT @teachbk: After the HMH compliance walkthrough I was told there was a question as to why I included the word "block" in my vocabulary ce….

Teacher PD has needed an overhaul for a generation. And, it matters how we do it. Don't let it be the next frontier for $ flow w/o accountability. Don't let teachers be another kind of casualty of policy change. @LearningForward @ASCD @ILAToday @ncte @ncte_cel.

"equipping teachers with knowledge and skills" is not accidental word choice. It means an INVESTMENT IN teachers.-BUILDING ON their knowledge & skills, not thrashing and burning materials or swinging a policy pendulum .-INTEGRATION, not papering over the absence of investment.

I'm all in: "we must focus on equipping teachers with the knowledge and skills they need to improve student reading outcomes. This will require far more than knowledge of how to teach phonics and phonemic awareness" @DrNathanClemens & Vaughn. watch for pivots on how we do this.

Feels like we the turning point we clocked 6mos ago is rounding faster now. The new Clemens & Vaughn Article in TRLJ is another indication. Watch how the loudest respond. Are they silent?.Did they tell you so?.Is that what they meant all along?.Is the old news new again?.

"Stating that ‘we are following the science of reading’ will never replace the impact of well-educated & knowledgeable teachers who both understand the science of reading & the instructional practices that are most effective".

"we must focus on equipping teachers with the knowledge and skills they need to improve student reading outcomes. This will require far more than knowledge of how to teach phonics and phonemic awareness".

Meanwhile, @DrNathanClemens & Vaughn's latest in TRLJ. "However, the science of reading is not a program or pedagogy that can be purchased or adopted…".

Kim Marshall and the Marshall Memo are a national treasure.