The research is in: Greeting students at the door sets a positive tone and can increase engagement *and* reduce disruptive behavior. 🧡 💜 Read more here: edut.to/3QeDm7L

A new study confirms that reading comprehension strategies work best if combined with background knowledge. And: the effect of 55 hours of instruction is the same as 1 hour. Kids get WAY more than 55 hrs in school. Daniel Willingham More in my Forbes post: forbes.com/sites/nataliew…

Students with fewer absences read at an earlier age. Even as early as preschool, it’s important to make sure that children are at school every day. #ShowUpWalkProud #SchoolEveryDay Pasco County Schools

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"If we want children to behave differently, we have to go back to the basics, back to what we know about the brain and how the brain works, focusing on creating classrooms based on safety, connection, & problem-solving," Lety Valero of Conscious Discipline told us. edut.to/3YXGIi0

Two of my students creating arrays while at the beach. Pasco County Schools Norman Graham Jr Quail Hollow Elem Kara Smucker

At QHES, our kindergarteners Used their sense of taste to determine the difference between salty, sweet, sour, and bitter. Norman Graham Jr Kara Smucker SciencePasco Quail Hollow Elem

Executive function remains one of the most reliable predictors of success in academics—and in life. Here's the research on what it is, and how to cultivate it. ✈️

I love inspiring and engaging students in such a way that when they leave the classroom they go home and complete the experiment again. I received this photo of my student shopping for supplies. #makescienceaverb Quail Hollow Elem Kara Smucker Norman Graham Jr SciencePasco

After giving a PD on gamification during Early Release Day, I loved going into classrooms and seeing the teachers apply what they learned with their students. 100% Student Engagement and Monitoring of students. Pasco County Schools Norman Graham Jr Nicole Sciretta Kara Smucker

Don't miss this piece by Timothy Shanahan on reading comprehension. bit.ly/47ENkVY #KnowledgeMatters💙

Proficient reading comprehension relies on the ability to navigate and understand syntactic structures, allowing readers to extract the intended meaning from written text. These four outstanding PaTTAN presentations on syntax from Dr. Margie Gillis, Willam Van Cleave, and Nancy

"Reading comprehension should be taught with texts worth reading – texts from which we want students to gain knowledge. Kids need to learn how to summarize texts...but they need to do this while trying to gain ...knowledge from the texts they are reading during this work."

Knowledge-building curricula aren’t absent of skill and strategy instruction. In the #KnowledgeMatters Podcast, Brent Conway discusses how instead, content and texts are the bedrock for skills and strategies in Knowledge-Building curriculums. Link:🔗 knowledgematterscampaign.org/podcast/

🤫 Are you a child whisperer? Become one—literally. This and 33 other teacher-tested ways to help you snap an unruly classroom back to attention from Edutopia's Daniel Leonard: edut.to/3KLWCWQ

My third grade students are learning about chemical and physical changes. For our kindness celebration, they chose to do a science experiment. This one is always fun. Kool-aid Pickles can be done at any grade level. SciencePasco Norman Graham Jr Pasco County Schools Kelsi Schmidt

man, life is so precious. Hug the ones you love and let them know how much you love them. We can’t take things for granted because the only thing that is promised is right now. 🙏🏽

To guarantee that every student who needs extra help can receive it, there must be dedicated intervention time embedded within the school’s master schedule. This time must be designed in a way so teachers can respond collectively, and not individually in each classroom.

We ❤️ our partnership with NJ’s Montgomery Township School District for district-wide professional learning in Universal Design! #UDL