"It's not that students aren't responsive to our interventions, it's that our interventions aren't responsive to our students." Dr. H 🔥 #IESSCRD

Evidenced based resources in the hands of untrained teachers are not likely to change the trajectory of kids with disabilities who need highly trained educators.

You know who really supports suspensions and expulsions? The other kids in a class who can’t learn because of one student, the kids who just want to learn math or history but can’t hear their teacher yet again

Kids need consequences from people who love them before they end up with consequences from people who don’t.

👩🏼‍💻Allison Curry👩🏼‍💻 Advocate GOAT When we talk about equitable access to high quality instruction for all students, we don’t spend enough time talking about the kids who are losing out because a couple disruptive students can take all the teacher’s time and energy.

This was written independently today by a first grader who entered school in the fall speaking no English and having no alphabetic knowledge. Thanks to teachers who have been learning the Science of Reading, she can look forward to a literate life.

How was this still on my shelf? End of the school year cleaning. Adios F&P. Rebecca Bennison Karen Vaites High Five Literacy Melissa & Lori Love Literacy Podcast

Going to war in Afghanistan is easier than trying to teach in the CCSD

“Read to self” doesn’t work when you don’t know how to read. Waste of time.

Such a beautiful, eloquent and powerful message from one who is enduring unimaginable pain. Please listen and retweet.

Even the HMH salespeople acknowledge Basal Bloat. It’s smart marketing. But it doesn’t empower smart teaching. 👀

WOW--Super cool new study... Large effects for: ALIGNED T1-T2 intervention> BaU ALIGNED T1-T2 intervention> NONaligned Measures? ✅Content knowledge ✅Vocab ✅Content rdng comp Is your intervention ALIGNED to your Tier 1 content area instruction? sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Kindergarten/1st grade are likely the most pivotal grade levels for reading development. Thus, it makes the most sense to invest in the teachers and students within this grade-level band. It is not that the other grades don't matter, but rather that the correlation between kids

If you are spending hours in offices talking about curriculum, or spending thousands on consultants talking about curriculum, or pouring over the wording of fancy docs and graphs, but the teacher next door is having behaviour nightmares every day and can't find a soul to

Yet another 🎤 drop from Stephanie Stollar- you don’t need 3-4 different programs for MTSS! Beware of cognitive overload for students and make sure we are consistent across tiers when it comes to our approaches and academic language. Also- sign up for this newsletter! It’s the best!

Teach kids how to read. Change their lives.

The more you know... From the wonderful Dr. Holly Lane: "Here are just a few of the activities I've seen in UFLI classrooms that can make it look like kids are learning, when they're actually not: -Spelling words with multi-colored letters, where patterns can be remembered to

Quote from a first grader today telling me about his summer: I just eat and watch my tablet. This is why I fear for our future.

The people who are doing the most good in education are people you've never heard of, doing the little things with dedication and care, and not settling for the status quo. Hundreds of lives are being changed for the better every day. Don't lose sight of this.