Educators shouldn't have to sneak and hide to help kids read. This American tradition, of teachers needing to smuggle the code to students, stretches back to slavery. Thank you for your courage, be safe, and find community members that will have your back. #Grateful

Does anyone have a free billboard where we can put this up? Sadly, we have to keep saying this over and over...Maybe a billboard would do the trick.

"Culture beats talent if your culture is really strong. Culture is organic. It is not a sign up in your building. It's not a t-shirt you wear. It's not breaking the team down and saying 'Culture on 3'. Who you are some of the time is who you are all of the time."

📸 Look at this post on Facebook edweek.org/teaching-learn…

This is true, but what does NOT fall within the existing gray areas are: Reading Recovery, Units of Study, using DRA to level kids, LLI, Fountas &Pinell, 3 cueing, balance literacy, beanies, phonics in isolation, phonics only, delaying intervention, 1 intervention program 4 all

Together, we collected over 500 toys for low-income families. Right before Christmas break, we filled two St Francis shuttle buses with toys and donated them to St. Luke’s. Thank you to all who helped us make a better Christmas for those in need!

If you are not de-implementing, coaching & training teachers, you are doing SOR wrong… If you are just adding this or that to what what is been traditionally done to teach reading, the effort is just cosmetics and for appearances sake. Teachers/students/parents deserve better.

The article "Putting Students on the Path to Learning: The Case for Fully Guided Instruction" by Richard E. Clark, Paul A. Kirschner, and John Sweller argues for fully guided explicit instruction over minimally guided approaches like pure discovery learning. The authors present

Rod The 2022 PISA results also support it. Also read tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.120…

Many districts realize they chose the wrong reading curriculum, but won't replace it for 5-7 years. Too expensive... so they try to "patch" it up Kids' lives are too important for a patch #LeadershipMatters

Yesterday, Governor Hochul announced her "Back to Basics" reading plan, which would be "a major policy shift that would make sure students receive foundational, evidence-based instruction in reading." The Buffalo News Ben Tsujimoto Erie County Association of School Boards Erie-Niagara School Superintendents buffalonews.com/news/local/edu…

Reading Method A: Designed to reach 15% of kids Method B: Designed to reach 40% of kids Method C: Designed to reach 90% of kids Some pick A or B, then say: *There's no 1 way to teach it! *We'll use A or B with a C-patch! *Poverty and trauma keeps us at 40% UCan't make this up

Many moons ago, I asked this question in a Daily 5 Class I took at our local AEA. I was wondered how “Read to Self” for 20 minutes a day was going to help my newcomers learn English if it was silent reading. I was told by our trainer that students need to be immersed in print.🫣

3 of 3 How many of us would entertain those people? How many of us would be up in arms. Can you imagine a builder disregarding construction guidelines for the sake of autonomy? The whole thing is just absurd...another red herring designed to maintain the status quo that keeps

Big shout out to our Swim Team on finishing 2nd at All-Catholics! Special congrats to our top scorers, Hunter LaMoy ’24 2nd 50 free, 3rd 100 free, Zach Seifert ’24 3rd 500 free, and Kaden Vitko ’25 3rd 200 free.

In case there is any confusion (and we don’t think that there is much confusion outside of a few small circles on edutwitter), adding a phonics patch to Units of Study, even the REVISED version, is not the change that literacy experts are recommending. 1/

Does the instructional level idea make sense in the teaching of reading? shanahanonliteracy.com/blog/the-instr…

This year’s first ever Fr. Justin Figas House Cup for 2023-2024 was awarded to House Cupertino! Congratulations to all the house members of Cupertino; it’s been a great year of humility, excellence, respect and fraternity. Looking forward to another year of intense competition!