At school board meeting. In our library. LOVE

Next month #G2Great chat will be talking about the role of increasing reading volume with our friend Laura Robb. We hope you'll join the discussion! Increase Reading Volume: Practical Strategies That Boost Students’ Achievement and Passion for Reading Laura Robb

When a waiver process spreads over two school years, with numerous delays and changes, when the rubric is created & shared after waivers were due, it's not a process for innovation and differentiation. It's a way to wear folx down until they give in to the status quo.

Ask me about the sentence I wrote that shows capital letters for names! What did we notice was the same & different between the sentences in the 1st photo? We had our first #PatternsofWonder lesson today & made our own pages showing our name & external traits. Alyssa Evaristo #RBBisBIA

"What connects us all is our desire to help kids develop a reading home—a sanctuary. Deep reading occurs when we go beyond the wisdom of the author to discover our own." ~Maryanne Wolf #TCAdvancingLiteracy #SaturdayReunion

So worth your time!

“To comprehend, we pick up threads put down in the text, but we weave them together with the threads of our own experiences, thoughts, beliefs, and opinions.” Lester Laminack therobbreviewblog.com/uncategorized/…

Important question 👇. It's hard to remember a time without MTSS/RTI, screeners and CBMs, so it's important to reflect on what/why/how before they slide into unintended consequences as Professor Alice Bradbury illustrates bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Paired text! A. @LealaHolcomb's recent article in @JDSDE1 & B. Elizabeth Sulzby episode from Jennifer Serravallo 's To the Classroom podcast re: the importance of early language development and play for literacy development. 1/2 doi.org/10.1093/deafed… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/23-…

Words of Wisdom from Regie Routman "Human beings don't fit neatly into a program, nor should we want them to. What makes us human is our uniqueness, and we need to seek out and value the gifts each one of us has." p. 12) #TheHeartCenteredTeacher

Reading volume has been a central research focus for decades. Yet, it continues to be ignored. Please join #G2Great next week as we chat with Laura Robb. Increase Reading Volume: Practical Strategies That Boost Students’ Achievement and Passion for Reading

Collective teacher efficacy doesn’t occur because teachers get together, share lesson plans, and talk about students’ behavior. In actuality, a much larger transition occurs, marked by a shift from I to we. Toni Faddis explains: youtu.be/XC-meZeVc_E?si…

If your student forgets her pencil, give her a pencil. Don’t make a thing of it. There are better ways to teach responsibility.

Sophie Blackall Named 2024 Children's Book Week Poster Artist, Inaugural Spokesperson publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/ch… via Publishers Weekly

The epigraph: "Only extraordinary education is concerned with learning; most is concerned with achieving: and for young minds, these two are very nearly opposite." -Marilyn French The article that elucidates that distinction: alfiekohn.org/article/costs-…

"Experts have released robust research to show that phonics should be taught hand-in-hand with reading and writing to encourage true literacy and a love of reading, not through narrow synthetic phonics." phys.org/news/2024-05-r…

Teacher Morale.

lots of e-books and softcovers on sale this week at Springer Nature like this old love with Chad Lochmiller and Jess link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

A few benefits you might receive from putting your phone down!