School board member pledges to root out indoctrination. Finds none. Concludes that culture wars are about ginning up support for vouchers. Helps lead a movement against GOP extremism. Karin Chenoweth talks to Courtney Gore on the latest @haveyouheardpod on.soundcloud.com/4wKizqCQ6BmdH8…

Which came first? The program or the Nordstrom-featured jeans?

Thinking about how down-ballot races matter so much for governing reminds me how much middle managers matter for implementation and improvement. Awed at how the work of teaching shifts when instructional leaders block, tackle and run like they can see the whole field.

"The interplay between phonics and writing is deep and meaningful for the child as we seek to make connections between the sounds they hear and the meaning they make" -pamallyn

If you care about phonics, teach writing If you care about reading, teach writing If you care about children...(notice and apply the letter patterns above To Improve Reading Skills, Teach Writing Skills ascd.org/blogs/to-impro… via ASCD pamallyn ILA

Join with us now as we turn to 1994... "instead of starting with content & performance standards, policies should aim to create a system in which improved teacher knowledge and equalized school capacity are the starting points for systemic change" Linda Darling-Hammond journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…

um. amazing. Trena M. Paulus trenapaulus.com/news/f/how-gen…

Hoping to Compete in the Boxed ELA Curriculum Clothing Market, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Plans to Release New Line of “Into Reading” Thongs

versions of learning styles are baked into so many tools and crisscrossed with other ideas about instruction (e.g. modalities) ...not all versions need reframing, some do. it's a bigger task than just:

"“You should, as a parent, ask your kid about the books that they’re reading and be prepared to hear an earful from your child about how they read about Jacques Cousteau and the discovery of the giant squid — or to know a whole lot about pollinators,” said Kristen McQuillan,

The rich get leveled texts. Even without waivers to approved programs.

This is a reminder that both of my books, Bodyminds Reimagined & Black Disability Politics, are available free open access from Duke University Press and both books are also available as audiobooks!

Ten minutes: How long I lasted using Rigby Readers with my group that had just gotten back from an Orton gillingham intervention We switched to a novel And they lit up Look. Short passages are good. Short passages are needed. But/and so are things that don’t feel like a drudge