Wow. This is truly amazing.

Well past due, but never too late.

Can’t wait to learn more about what’s in these reports.

Thankful to The Reading League for compiling this research and sharing it to help districts help kids.

Imagine being this kid. Heartbreaking and yet so avoidable.

Thank you to teachers who change children’s lives every day!

“Our language is morphophonemic, and we spell by both meaning and sound, and so morphology is really critically important. Word study beyond basic phonics is really critical for both decoding and encoding spelling.” Pam Kastner

Knowing what I know about spelling, I was not…

Well isn’t this interesting…

I have looked into the KISD Trustee races. I recently attended an event to better understand the candidates and landscape regarding these campaigns. Donovan Campbell for Position 6 and David Olson for Position 7 are my recommendations for those KISD residents interested in…

More knowledge from TX Reads.

Make sure you know what fluency is. It’s MORE than just reading fast.

When TX Reads speaks we listen. Excited to learn more about fluency this month.

We’ll keep sharing their wisdom so you can learn as well!

Great information why background knowledge is so important for comprehension.

Teachers and leaders deserve to win at their work, and be apprenticed in evidence based practices. Scaling literacy success is possible, closing the jaws of the new Jim Crow. Neuhaus Education Center #SOR #Dyslexia #literacyforall

The 'yes sayers' and the 'go with the flow' might make some feel good and validated, but those are not movers and shakers and they are often OK with the 'status quo' regardless of the consequences and effects.

Speaking up and being passionate can be interpreted as being…

Phonics Patching looks like this.

From a SoR Facebook group in Ohio.

What has #trust got to do with reading?EVERYTHING.

This latest episode of #SoldAStory by Emily Hanford really made me reflect on the importance of TRUST in our Education system. And how hard it can be to rebuild once it has been broken.

Parents trust teachers to teach kids to read;…

This is quite a startling example of what a child faces when taught using Leveled Readers and 3 Cueing methods.

Can you read this story? Well neither can they, because words ARE a foreign language to kids who have no sound-spelling knowledge.

tetheredtoed Elementary aged kids have vast reserves of sparkle, wonder and curiosity - with just the slightest bit of effort, teachers could set off fireworks in these kids brains. To see them being numbed by boring, repetitive apps is devastating.

Kids are so much more capable and deserve so much better than they are getting in even the “best” elementary classrooms. The biggest waste of time and lost opportunity they will never get back is from the time spent on devices. It is so f’ing grim. MS and HS teachers are handed a…

Speaking as a parent, if you honestly believe that making sure teachers have decent curriculum is evil, then your own kids aren't in public schools. Once you see what kids learn, and how widely it varies from classroom to classroom in the same building, you can never unsee it.

New Episode.

Hanford isn’t finished yet. We are here for it!