You can't buy good literacy instruction, but you can invest in great literacy teachers. The training that comes with new materials is not that investment. Trainings are primarily procedural. Capacity-building is primarily analytical...Just like good instruction.

Chase Young EvidentlyReading Dr. Sam Bommarito Braedan Schantz Susan Vincent I'm interested to see how the cost conversation shifts in the next couple of years as folx adopt new curricula at the highest prices ever and still need significant intervention services. Seems like the landscape is (inflating?) changing.

Teach to the RESEARCH, not to the RESOURCE! Once you KNOW the research, you are able to stop teaching to the resource; you learn where to find resources that support the reading science. Best of all,, they’re often FREE (unlike TPT- costly & not always evidence-based!) Florida Center for Reading Research

Thought for the day.

I was down with #R2R #righttoread legislation until it turned into a publisher stimulus package. Teach 5 pillars? totes. Teach phonics exp/sys/comprehensively? most def. Drop whatever you have to buy sthg new that has ZERO evidence it's better? Nah. Right to Read CT Right to Read Project

We've always had SEL in schools. It was called recess, play, & classes like Music, Art, Physical Education.But they have been taken away or reduced to spend more time on testing, & then we wonder why students lack social/ emotional skills & misbehavior that come with lack of it.

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One of my biggest worries? That curriculum companies will capitalize on science of reading, making teachers beholden to a curriculum instead of actually building knowledge on how kids learn how to read. People teach, not programs. Just a reminder!

Spent a day in K today. Was reminded that teaching K is a delicate balance between “You can do it yourself!” “We learn by making mistakes.” “ I’m here to help you.” Programs can’t do all three at just the right moment. Teachers can.

Teachers shouldn't have to create all of their lessons from scratch, but they also shouldn't be forced to teach directly out of a manual. There's a both-and solution here: provide teachers with foundational resources and coach them in designing units with backward design.

Dr Rachael Gabriel on the pod today!! We talk research about teacher quality, HQIM (“high quality instructional materials) and more. Listen! Jenniferserravallo.com/podcast

"Teachers are being asked to get out of the way and follow the program....What we really need to be asking teachers to do is learn their students well and respond effectively." YES Dr. Rachael Gabriel Jennifer Serravallo OH Dept of Ed and Workforce Governor Mike DeWine

🧵I went to phd school bc of my experience as a teacher attending a research conference. A prof stood up in the middle of one packed session & asked the presenters a set of ?s they couldn't answer but SHOULD have been able to given their wild claims The prez was about DIBELS

If you do nothing else today…please, please read this entire thread. Dr. Rachael Gabriel OH Dept of Ed and Workforce Governor Mike DeWine

Earn your Reading Endorsement in 18 mos with the hybrid UConn Literacy Specialist Program in Hartford! In-person classes, weekly online discussions, and all located on the UConn Hartford campus. Apply by July 17th for Fall 2023! Dr. Rachael Gabriel  fal.cn/3z7Z3

What are you reading this summer? I hope it’s whatever the heck you want.

“I think it’s okay to use decodable texts as part of phonics instruction, but such practice should be limited, and even beginning readers should be reading (not just listening to) more than decodable texts.” tinyurl.com/ajmdh8u9

Unpopular opinion (that should be popular) As dyslexic kids progress to upper grades there needs to be a shift away from heavy emphasis on phonics towards heavy emphasis on application of obtained skills to authentic, GRADE LEVEL text. The shift should be comprehension & vocab+

People who don’t understand why a teacher/school wouldn’t teach a curriculum w “fidelity” probably 1- aren’t classroom teachers 2- don’t understand complex needs of real kids 3- haven’t seen or used a curr w an sor sticker slapped on it 🫠 Teacher expertise over programs. Always

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