Teachers using Stronger and Clearer Each Time to support math and language learning...

The power of "one" to do what's right. #weneeddiversebooks

There needs to be a lot of hard discussions around "Hard Words."

Yep! Time to put the kids first. Every minute matters for some.

Let’s stop wringing our hands over students’ lack of background knowledge. Instead, foreground content knowledge. And lose the worksheets.

So glad to see Newport-Mesa at our event! Let's do this!

Time matters! Let's give kids the time they need to learn!

7: Disrupting Genre disrupttexts.org/2019/06/14/dis… via WordPress.com I've been reading and recommending so many of these books> The latest was The Best That We Could Do. What a great book to discuss immigrant experiences and possible consequences. Thought provoking...

If you have a student who is disengaged, join us to learn more strategies to keep kids from quitting. I’m excited to share new thinking from my upcoming book, How Do I Get These Kids to Read and Write? I’d love to see you!

Can’t wait to dig into secondary literacy strats in Cali! Hope to see you there!

I’m against it...never familiarize kids with vocabulary that authors will define or that can be figured out on the basis of context or morphology. And then just familiarize them...don’t try to really teach that vocab as prereading.

High-quality ELA materials used less than math? It's not about fidelity, but how to ensure coherency, quality and alignment when many teachers turn to TPT or Pinterest for instructional materials. And foundational skills? Too important to chance for haphazard curriculum!

WOW: 118 pen 🔥 letter to school board: Given our District’s reading screen results, MAP results, & drop in rankings, our Literacy Coach should be acknowledging our Lucy Calkins’ curriculum is ineffective, not devising ways to “better utilize” it. 1/few docs.google.com/document/d/17P…

Love the work this district is doing! achievethecore.org/aligned/laying…

There Is a Right Way to Teach Reading, and Mississippi Knows It nyti.ms/2sPcMtn We need to pay attention to the lessons Mississippi has learned for ALL of our students.

Unfortunately, we see a lot of shrinkwrap...

Good for these parents! It is time that we stop accepting that almost 50% of children are not reading proficiently by nine. We don't have to accept this!

Awesome article from Brian Kingsley to make literacy innovation opportunity of 2019! curriculummatters.org/2019/03/30/lit…

We need to be talking about this with our school leaders...

Some excellent tips here as we work to support our emerging multilingual students: Ten Strategies for Teaching English-Language Learners Online blogs.edweek.org/teachers/class… via Education Week