Yes! So much of this.... vowel valley sound walls are a perfect example of this!

"RRCNA’s lawsuit fights for teachers to be able to teach using evidence-based methods like Reading Recovery & for students to be able to learn outside of the constraints of one-size-fits-all programs that lack peer-reviewed research." readingrecovery.org/why-a-lawsuit-… Reading Recovery Community

My first interview as a certified teacher asked me what the 5 components of reading were. I pulled on what I learned in college to answer that question. Since then, I’ve kept that at the heart of all I do for teaching reading. Reading is MUCH more than decoding.

radicalscholarship.com/2023/11/10/ile…

About Literacy Instruction- A Letter to the  New York Times by Dr. Sam Bommarito – doctorsam7 doctorsam7.blog/2023/06/12/abo…

JFC. SOR advocates complaining SOR legislation they caused has a … wait for it … balance problem When we already had research from UK that phonics-centric legislation there has a … yep … balance problem Maybe this? 🤷🏻‍♂️

The debate whether restorative justice in schools is working or not is fascinating. Most of the research is stating it’s a miserable failure. What do you think? Restorative justice…

Experienced teachers: Please do not opt-out of meeting with the instructional coach. Meeting with expert teachers allows the coach to learn from them. This makes the coach better, resulting in the entire school getting better.

Meaning making is important for students with dyslexia too! blog.dyslexia.com/nonsense-teach…

Are the programs on the CT Dept of Education's CT K-3 reading list really evidence-based? I compiled ratings from IES Research EdReports.org @EvidenceforESSA What Works Clearinghouse Ed Justice Research & Organizing Collaborative JHU Education Policy and more all publicly available info, please DM additions/corrections docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

"In the recent past, entrepreneurial documents (as in ‘buy our stuff’) proliferated, masquerading as research summaries.” Quote from 2013. That's not a typo. It's a timewarp. ocmboces.org/tfiles/folder1…

The real “Sold a Story” OH Dept of Ed and Workforce Governor Mike DeWine

Listen, I have yet to see any evidence that Balanced Literacy as theory or actual practice is the reason for reading struggles in kids. Maybe if there was research that proved it I would be more receptive. Unlike folks who use LETRS I do like research to justify my decisions. 😘

Give lots of time and attention to why children can’t be expected to behave at the same standards as they used to, and we will get lots more children feeling they don’t have to behave at those standards.

THE BROKEN LOGIC OF "SOLD A STORY": A PERSONAL RESPONSE TO "THE SCIENCE OF READING" by Tom Newkirk. (This GIFT can be printed or downloaded as a pdf ). PLEASE SHARE WIDELY! We desperately need an antidote to Sold a Story misinformation. literacyresearchcommons.org/resources/?fbc…

Mandi Cicalo Helen Proulx Jen & Hannah are here to support teachers&students Dr. Rachael Gabriel WWC- ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/Docs/…

Thanks, Dr. Rachael Gabriel, for bringing these headlines to our attention. My take is that we are banning effective programs because someone's defective theory says they can't work. Perhaps this is a bumble bee effect. Bumble bees can fly, even though, according to some theories,

The SOR Policy Tax: 1. more workbooks, fewer real books 2. more skill practice, less writing 3. more low-level "trainings" less development 4. more $ on materials, less on anything else