David Weingartner

Governor Trump, leader of the 51st state of Russia, formerly known as the United States of America.

Creating Confident Readers

AFT featured the training MPS teachers are taking in their quarterly educator magazine.

www.aft.org/ae/spring202...

American Federation of Teschers has been calling for better training in the Science of Resding for decades. And our foundational literacy curriculum cost $10,000. You are making stuff up.

Here are 5th grade assessment results shared to use by MPS educators. If you are struggling to read three letter words, your comprehension isn’t going to be great. www.academicsadvocacy.org/post/intervi...

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Tucked into the weekly email to MPS parents was this update on the budget. A couple of thoughts… 🧵

The Reading League Conference Join education leaders and changemakers from across the globe for a multi-day conference focused solely on the science of reading.

What if literacy held the key to justice? Join me in Chicago for my keynote, The Weight of Our Calling, as we uncover the urgent connection between reading proficiency and justice.
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“ALL IN” is the name of the documentary produced by St. Paul Public Schools where they name the reading crisis for what it is and share from the perspective of all stakeholders a deep and heart-felt examination of how their district is transforming literacy instruction for the better. 1/

Please watch and share and ask what it would take for us as a district and community to be “All in”? /2

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“ALL IN” is the name of the documentary produced by St. Paul Public Schools where they name the reading crisis for what it is and share from the perspective of all stakeholders a deep and heart-felt examination of how their district is transforming literacy instruction for the better. 1/

For some students, going to school when you are unable to read, is frequent and repetitive trauma.
#SteveDykstra #Dyslexia #RightToRead

MPS lacks capacity to provide basics to special-ed students, external audit finds - MinnPost Conducted by the Boston-based District Management Council, the audit found that yawning shortfalls in literacy instruction throughout the district compound the challenges facing its special-ed populat...

Can you republish past articles with a new date? www.minnpost.com/learning-cur...

And the last special education audit a decade ago. Would love for auditors to ask MPS what they did with these findings.

www.academicsadvocacy.org/_files/ugd/1...

MPS has been using classroom (General Ed) $ to pay for technology like Chromebooks. This levy allows district to use the General Ed $ in the classroom.

Lawsuit calls reading curriculum 'deceptive' and 'defective' A class-action lawsuit filed in Massachusetts claims that the educational publishing company Heinemann falsely advertised its products as “research-backed” and “data-based.”

“The lawsuit alleges that the defendants falsely marketed their literacy products as “research-backed” & “data-based,” failed to “warn” consumers that the products lacked sufficient phonics instruction & continued to sell those products when they were inadequate.”

www.apmreports.org/story/2024/1...

Reading recovery: a longitudinal meta-analysis - Discover Education Reading Recovery(RR) is a constructivist reading intervention used to provide tier 3 instruction to struggling readers in the first grade. The program has been previously evaluated and found effective...

Reading recovery: a longitudinal meta-analysis
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Children.

Lawsuit calls reading curriculum 'deceptive' and 'defective' A class-action lawsuit filed in Massachusetts claims that the educational publishing company Heinemann falsely advertised its products as “research-backed” and “data-based.”

“A product-liability case reaches beyond the secrecy of parents doing this over and over.”
A new class-action lawsuit alleges that Heinemann and three of its top authors - Lucy Calkins and Fountas&Pinnell - promoted “deceptive” and “defective” products. www.apmreports.org/story/2024/1...

When Less Is More: The Case for Teaching Less Math in School When a superintendent prohibited the teaching of arithmetic in the first five grades in some of the poorest elementary schools in Manchester, NH, here is what he found.

If you want to go down a rabbit hole: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/free...

District leadership opted for fewer budget cuts last spring, records show Minneapolis Public Schools leadership opted to use more district reserves than recommended by the internal budget committee.

A little work thread 🧵
Last spring, Minneapolis Public Schools faced a $100M+ budget deficit just as it brought in a new superintendent. I submitted a records request for documents given to the superintendent when she started. This is what I found out…

www.mplsschoolsvoices.news/posts/distri...

This is a concise, useful piece about cuts recommended last year v those actually made. Which might be a peek into what *could* be back on the table this coming year?

Observations:

After spending the legal minimum % of its federal COVID $ on academic recovery... 1/

District leadership opted for fewer budget cuts last spring, records show Minneapolis Public Schools leadership opted to use more district reserves than recommended by the internal budget committee.

As MPS’ ability to continue funding operations out of reserves ends, difficult decisions are being made.

Class sizes being raised this year to “cap” under MFT contract was one such decision. @mwhitler.bsky.social

www.mplsschoolsvoices.news/posts/distri...

S7 E6: What teachers can learn from incarcerated youth with Hilderbrand Pelzer III - Science of Reading: The Podcast In this episode, we take on the difficult topic of literacy education in the American juvenile justice system. Susan is joined by Hilderbrand Pelzer III, who discusses his experience as an educational...

www.buzzsprout.com/612361/episo...

No longer selling fall pumpkin spice bagels foreshadowed Bruegger’s demise.

I will watch, I would be more optimistic long term as tech improves. Get rid of parking ramps, street parking, 8 lane highways running through the middle of the city, get rid of personal cars and garage which takes up 1/2 of backyard.

Have you ever heard of a school system making a documentary about why it's changing the way it teaches reading? www.spps.org/academics/te...

Meeting with SPPS on Literacy! Khulia Pringle arranged a meeting with the SPPS academic team today to discuss literacy in St. Paul. Here are some of our notes from the meeting.Sue Braithwaite, K-12 Literacy Supervisor, was the pri...

Cool. We met with SPPS two years ago and were impressed with the progress they were making. www.academicsadvocacy.org/post/meeting...