Heidi Beverine-Curry, PhD

*The device in the child’s hand is not a cell phone. It is a translator. We have 19 languages represented in this school! #EduCoach #Educhat

Teacher: “Do you remember this guy from 1st grade? We are starting a new book today and we get to learn from Rattenborough again!”

Students: “Yesssss!” “Awwww! I like him!” “Woo-hoo!”

These 3rd graders are excited to meet Rattenborough again. Let’s read and write! #CKLA

It was so much fun to provide the first professional learning session in my Getting Started with the Science of Reading Series for Irish educators! 💚 Thank you for your interest and dedication, and I’ll see you at Session 2!🤓

🧵schools to continue to use the previous norms when considering individual student trajectories and decisions while I learn more. Anyone else encountering similar situations? All thoughts welcome 🤓.

🧵interpret fall data this year that would have been interpreted much differently a year ago. There are implications that affect how we talk about student growth and some schools (states, too, I believe) have policy tied to aimswebPlus norms that are about to get shaken up. For now, I am advising

🧵 #EduSky #EduChat A number of schools I support use aimswebPlus as their universal screening and progress monitoring tool. The company released new norms this fall and there are significant differences, especially with the ORF norms. Schools are struggling to make sense of how to

Day 1 for Tiger staff & let me tell you I will be leaning *hard* into Tiger fashion this year! Giving Bean is here to make sure these educators are deliciously caffeinated, & a portion of proceeds benefits our cubs! 🐯 ☕️ Happy back-to-school season, everyone, and *thank you* 🤓 #EduSky #EduChat

I got to spend the last 2 days with Western NY educators who are refreshed, rejuvenated & ready to put their new learning into action! There’s nothing quite like lighting a spark that sends teachers back to school excited abt their teaching & knowing you’ll be back to support them. #EduSky #EduCoach

🧵How might it deepen learning for students with specific needs in your classroom?

Am I doing AI right? 😜🦈🌪️
#EduPost #EduSky

🧵Make an argument for “chirp.”
The word exploration and language opportunities are endless here if we look closely and talk to each other! 👀👄

Turn & Talk: How might you use something like this to enhance a specific lesson you already teach?

🧵Teaching teachers about syllable types, vocabulary, and oral language development…

Which V+r syllable words on the slide can you find represented in the picture?
Zoom in and see if you can find any other V+r words that are *not* on the slide represented in the picture.

Shark
Tornado
Sharknado

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procedural knowledge to conditional application. For example, if universal screening data in kindergarten phoneme segmentation is spiking mid-year and end-of-year while nonsense word fluency is poor, what does that tell us? How do we know how to respond to the data?

🧵When leading long-term professional learning and school transformation guided by SoR, it’s important to regularly zoom back out to the big picture in between close-up looks at specific topics. How do concepts relate to each other? This helps educators move from declarative and

It feels fabulous to plant roots in my new public school district role & still have the flexibility to support educators worldwide. Looking forward to more moments like this: My colleague said, “If a little girl comes up to you and asks to borrow a cup of sugar, that’s Lola.”🤣💖 #EduSky #EduCoach

Looking forward to this, Ireland! Thank you for having me, @clanavtra.bsky.social 🤓🇮🇪
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Australia has always held a special place in my heart. So thankful for the opportunity to help boost professional learning with the Queensland Literacy Leaders Hub and Erin Morgan! 💖🇦🇺 🤓📚📈 #EduSky #EduCoach

still going strong on June 23- digging through EOY screening and diagnostic data for the purpose of identifying how they can tighten up *core/Tier 1* instruction next year and reduce the number of students who need intervention. I love this work! 🤓📚📈 #EduSky #EduCoach

It was 104 degrees yesterday in Western NY and I had the pleasure of spending the day with a team of admin & teacher leaders who are ready to align their literacy instruction, assessment, & RTI/MTSS processes with the scientific evidence base. These powerhouse educators are (1/2)

Back in the desert for the New Mexico Summer Literacy Convening! Hope to see you at a session! (Bonus pic: Sipping a latte in my dear friend & colleague Allison’s backyard. Zoom in to see Rio Rancho High School, which is where Walter White taught chemistry in #BreakingBad!) #EduCoach #EduSky

Thrilled to be able to be immersed in the practice and learning of real-world public school employment again *and* continue to support educators nationally and globally through HBC Literacy Consulting, LLC! 🤓 📚 📈 #EduSky #EduCoach

Here is a sneak peek for tonight’s session! #EduSky #EduChat

Looking forward to gettin’ nerdy with y’all tonight! #EduSky #EduCoach

Very happy to be returning for the third time to present a couple of sessions at the New Mexico Public Education Department’s Summer Literacy Convening! Join me on June 12 to chat and learn about:
1) When Big Kids Struggle to Read
2) Basic Assessment Structures for RTI/MTSS/MLSS. #EduSky #EduCoach

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🧵but the percentile column tells a different story when added. (Her accuracy is 98-100%, but her comprehension is poor because the cognitive load demands of word recognition are too much to allow for understanding.)

🧵into thinking a student is significantly improving by looking at the raw score increase, but the percentiles often show that students are not closing the gap. For example, here is a case I’m working on now. Her raw scores look great if we aren’t thinking beyond words correct per minute,

🧵eligibility meetings, or parent advocacy consultations and am handed a list of raw scores, without percentiles attached, as proof of success. I now carry norms tables for the major CBM suites with me so I can look up percentiles on the spot. We can be fooled (mostly not intentionally)

🧵When RTI language popped up after the reauthorization of IDEA in 2004, many schools adopted CBM suites with nationally normed ORF measures (DIBELS, Aimsweb, etc.), which is excellent, but only if we know how to interpret the data. More often than not, I end up in data meetings,