Prince Rupert School District 52 well represented at IDA Ontario with the incredible Dr. Anita Archer!!! #litLearn2024 #BCEd

It takes 70 exposures to unlearn an embedded error. This is why we shouldn't use launch, explore, summarise or you do, we do, you do. Good explicit teaching is I do, we do, you do. Teach First. #schollexcellence #edi #explicitteaching

“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

Sam Altarac Mainly it's a loss of empathy, but remember that teachers don't observe other teachers very often. You become a leader, you visit classrooms, and you find a lot of variety in practice that you were unaware of as a teacher. Then you latch onto a fad that does something about it.

We aren't hardwired to learn math; it must be taught. That being said, all students can learn math, provided the instruction is designed well. Even if only a small percentage will pursue careers in it, most will enjoy it when given clear models, feedback, and a high success rate.

I'm becoming obsessed with how design math instruction effectively. I recommend this podcast with two folks who know instructional design for math inside and out. zachgroshell.wordpress.com/2024/05/11/wha…

What a wonderful few #math days with ⁦AIM Collective⁩ in Ottawa! So many great conversations with passionate educators and researchers. It was fun to have ⁦Alison Hardy @mshardy123.bsky.social⁩ from ⁦College of Education⁩ on the trip, and it was nice timing with the tulip festival!

My daughter is 6 lessons away from finishing this book. She can read like a 1st grader and she's 4. A new student just entered my middle school who is unable to decode. I will end the year by teaching him with this book.

Some math practices are better bets than others. I highly recommend this report by Sarah Powell, "Maths Practices You Can Count on." cis.org.au/wp-content/upl…

In case you missed it! On May 30th, I’ll be chatting with Dyslexia Canada’s Executive Director, Alicia Smith, during this webinar for families with children enrolled in FRENCH IMMERSION. Register here: dyslexiacanada.org/en/events/navi…

Literacy skills seem to fuel literacy enjoyment, rather than vice versa onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… "The best-fitting direction-of-causation model showed that skills impacted enjoyment, while the influence in the other direction was zero."

Session 3 of the Empowering Literacy series with Alicia Smith started off with very welcome opening remarks from David Eby! The Premier’s presence and acknowledgment of the hard work BC educators are doing to implement evidence-based literacy practices were/are so appreciated.

We need this approach in British Columbia too! Too many children are not getting the reading instruction they need to become successful readers. Here’s hoping the new funding will start us on a more equitable path. David Eby Rachna Singh #BCLit2024

So fun to spend some tiki time with 50% of my #PRIMETeam! I appreciate each of these friends so much, and they did an amazing job sharing their research at #MCLS2024. ⁦College of Education⁩ ⁦Danielle Lariviere⁩ ⁦Mackenna Vander Tuin⁩ ⁦@ArsenaultTessa⁩ ⁦Katie B. MacLean⁩

Nate Joseph This quote from G. Reid Lyon sums it up “Big bold promises, impassioned speeches, and even large curriculum purchases are easier than the daily work of helping teachers learn to teach reading.” The product “machine” (publishers and programs) don’t focus on teaching teachers.

1/ What’s the greatest breakthrough in the science of education over the last century? Characterizing the mechanics of learning in the brain. Learning is all about the interplay between working memory (WM) and long-term memory (LTM). If you understand that, then you can

Are you having trouble meeting the needs of ALL of your readers? 💙 8th grade teacher, Emily Jaskowski, developed a fluency small group protocol that helped ALL of her students improve! 💯 Listen to Emily talk about this in our latest podcast episode 🎧ow.ly/TSxf50U7LQ6

Three-cueing and the Law shanahanonliteracy.com/blog/three-cue…

Are “thinking skills” the educational equivalent of “eat healthy"? Carl Bereiter is very good on this. Reading his brilliant book Education And The Mind in The Knowledge Age and his argument is that thinking emerges from knowledge structures, just as digestion emerges from