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You can pass every student, inflate every grade, and scrap every test. But the real world won’t care. When you lower standards, you’re really just lowering students’ chances of future success.

The same holds true for any student who is struggling to read! 💯

"When we design instruction so that irrelevant information is minimized, working memory is freed up to deal with the things we need students to learn." -Zach Groshell One of my top reads of 2025 is Zach Groshell's "Just Tell Them"--an accessible, plain talk master class on...(1/2)

Nothing in education matters if students can’t read. Not engagement, not equity, not technology. A system that regularly graduates functionally illiterate students is worse than broken. It’s worthless.

I'm hosting a LETRS for Administrators Day 2 session for HCS principals led by Lexia PLF Janet Kaylor. Thanks to Superintendent Sutton and Deputy Superintendent Buckner for dropping by to support the principals. Lexia ARI / The Alabama Reading Initiative, ALSDE MistyBWilson AJ Buckner

If you, as a teacher, can be replaced by a Google Classroom account and some hyperlinks, then you're not teaching anything.

I struggled with this a lot as a school leader. The culture of the building is shaped by what we PROMOTE…but also what we PERMIT. The people who work the hardest get frustrated when behaviors of those that don’t are tolerated. #LeadFromWhereYouAre

Happening now...Shaquala Holmes and I are hosting an "April and May Matter" coaching session for HCS ARI LRS. We are poised to end the year with a bang💥! #everydaymatters #notadaywasted ARI / The Alabama Reading Initiative, ALSDE AJ Buckner Dale Champion Principal Karen Rutledge-Bell MistyBWilson

I'm so excited to hear these dynamic ladies speak about the amazing things happening with K-3 literacy and beyond. Thank you, Bonnie Short and Misty Wilson for ALL you do in support of Alabama students, teachers, and administrators! ❤️ ARI / The Alabama Reading Initiative, ALSDE MistyBWilson

Here's to all the little things you'll do this week to create culture. 🪄 (Inspiration via P Greg Berge)

Take the time to build relationships. These are absolute realities for some of our students. I’m sure we all have something in our “toolbox” to help them. Be the difference! ⁦ALSDE Office of Student Learning⁩ ⁦ALSDE Office of School Improvement⁩ ⁦Joseph Garner⁩ ⁦Dr. Melissa Shields, NBCT⁩ ⁦AlabamaMTSS⁩