Helen Proulx

YouTube video by Dr. Andy Johnson Reading Research: Context Matters

Contex matters www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5T5...

YouTube video by Dr. Andy Johnson Webinar: Louisa Moats, SoR Research Standards, and Baloney

Don't let Lexia or Louisa Moats trick you into thinking that there's research to support LETRS professional development. There is none. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM6Q...

EEF: ChatGPT cuts lesson planning by nearly a third The saved time did not come at the expense of quality, independent evaluation finds

So instead of fighting for smaller classes and more time to plan and collaborate with actual humans, districts will jump on this as the bold, innovative solution to teacher workload, and then gradually use the "efficiencies" to ... increase teacher workload. Why are we so gullible and short-sighted

Your toddler wants nothing more than to be like you.

To walk like you. To talk like you. To emulate your every move.

And sometimes they can get pretty creative about their approach.

I just love this video shared to TT by h3yitskaylee.

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Give them the joy of reading, it's never too soon!

🎁 More here: www.childs-play.com 🎁
#Bookswithusallin #ReflectingRealities #SmashingStereotypes #KidLit #ReadingTogether #ReadingforPleasure #Bookgiftsarethebestgifts

'We need poetry … We deserve poetry / We owe it to ourselves to re-create ourselves / and find a different if not better way to live.'
Nikki Giovanni
– Acolytes, 2007

We Teach English in Times of Perpetual Crisis: Selling a Story of Reading (and Literacy) [Webinar Companion Post] Click here to register: See the webinar presentation HERE. In 1947, writing in NCTE’s Elementary English (which became Language Arts), Lou LaBrant announced, “This is not the time for t…

We Teach English in Times of Perpetual Crisis: Selling a Story of Reading (and Literacy) [Webinar Companion Post] radicalscholarship.com/2024/11/23/w...

“How was your day, Cora?!”

This video is such a lovely illustration of toddler play that I couldn’t resist sharing.

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People who are good at reading have different brains Reading can change the brain.

The science of reading for pleasure

'it’s worth considering what might happen to us as a species if skills like reading become less prioritised. Our capacity to interpret the world around us and understand the minds of others would surely diminish' theconversation.com/people-who-a...

It seems to be denied or ignored by those who are in favour of the practice. And worse, other parts of the world are just now implementing similar universal screening instead of learning from UK experience.

What can quantitative analyses tell us about the national impact of the phonics screening check? - Education Policy Institute A new report published by the Education Policy Institute (EPI) examines the impact of the national phonics screening check (PSC) on early reading development in primary schools across England. The res...

Why hasn't this report had more publicity and more discussion? Or have I just missed it? The compulsory phonics screening test is taking up huge amounts of classroom time & yet seems to have no beneficial impact on either reading or writing.

epi.org.uk/publications...

So children are performing better on the tasks in the phonics screening, which makes sense given the mandated push for focusing on these skills. The article is citing evidence that reading achievement has not really changed & that fewer children are reading for pleasure. That is troubling.

Where does the idea come from that inquiry-based learning is the driving philosophy & principal practice of American public schools? It's a criticism I see frequently to justify a "shift" toward teacher-driven instruction when, from what I can tell, we never left in the first place. 🤷🏼‍♂️

A unique opprtunity for Early Childhood Educators!

Please share widely!!

literacyconference.org/sessions/prek/

Parents Sue Lucy Calkins, Fountas and Pinnell, and Others Over Reading Curricula A first-of-its-kind lawsuit targets creators of whole-language reading curricula.

I wrote a whole paper in graduate school criticizing the Units of Study, so I’m not a fan by any means. Still, this is insane and sets a horrific precedent. It’s the type of zealotry that can only be found in the newly converted & under informed.

www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

a white squirrel is making a funny face with the words just why below it ALT: a white squirrel is making a funny face with the words just why below it

Wait, people are suing over curriculum??? Look, I’m a *huge* fan of public scholarship. It’s how I position most of my work & is sorely needed right now—but the fact a journalist podcaster with zero research background has set the literacy legislative agenda for half the country is wildly unhinged.

Do you mean that the number of children passing the phonics screening has increased?

A unique opprtunity for Early Childhood Educators!

Please share widely!!

literacyconference.org/sessions/prek/

Thank you!

This absolutely thrills me. We protested so hard for so long against Act 10

Fun fact about teaching at my Danish school: when we are sick, we’re not required to write sub plans because we’re sick.

The subs are paid well to come up with their own activities with the students. We also have the same staff of subs all year, so the students know them fairly well.

US teachers, can you even imagine this happening?? Because, and I’m not exaggerating, it would be life changing 😭

A Christmas #maths mystery is unraveling...

Excellent! Thank you for sharing!

The Joint Primary Group of the ATM and MA are pleased to launch ‘KS1 Assessment Tasks – Tasks not Tests’.
a collaboration between mathematics educators and are freely available by all to access. @Mathematical_A atm.org.uk/News/ks1-tas...

If you haven’t taken a look at these yet … please do 👇🏼
#TasksNotTests at KS1

YouTube video by Dr. Andy Johnson Emily Hanford is the Alexa App of Reading Instruction

youtu.be/L1oHAHzkfvI?...

Thinking inside the box. 📦

Yesterday I shared some holiday gift giving advice, one piece of which resonated with many of you.

It was a note that your toddler may be just as interested in the box a toy comes in as the toy itself.

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