Jean B.

Also, not for nothing: PatBev has always been a weirdo and instigator. Like, that's his entire personality so this is probably just another day that ends in Y. He's pathetic.

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SHE'S HERE! Queen Latifah joins the Re-Living Single podcast! 😍😭😩🥰🤌🏿🔥

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPO7...

I'm sorry, "loose"? LOL! 🤣

I can! I read it when it dropped and couldn't put it down! It's one of the few that reignited my love of reading for pleasure after I had lost it for a long time so THANK YOU for bringing it into the world ❤️. It's an excellent book!

You're probably right. There were a lot of education fads that were happening around that time, all of which were supposed to revolutionize learning but have now been debunked. There's one in particular I know started in the 90s but the name is escaping me right now.

Yeah now that you mention Book It, I recall so many contests linked to reading to win some prize, that or spelling tests.

I didn't know why there were so many ads for it either! Probably b/c of curriculum changes? Markets? IDK the research on that program but it'll be part of my research.

I am clearly still floored by that article even though the context is different. I think I need to look at my report cards from elementary school too because...shamwow.

I wonder what impact difference that makes even if you were taught with either balanced literacy or three-cueing. Because I just don't remember it. My mind if still blown at the harm that these two approaches can do (and have done) long-term.

This calls for going down a rabbit hole...

The 90s were different, right? I remember always being encouraged to read, whether it was for book reports, spelling contests, French lessons, DEAR (Drop Everything and Read) month, book fairs, new encyclopedias, newspapers because I wanted to be a grown up etc. That was the environment.

It's like "better late than never" but this is a colossal failure of a generation of people. That article is really upsetting. The way publishers profit from this too is just...infuriating.

Why some parents want changes to Ontario's early reading curriculum | CBC News The Right to Read Inquiry Report from the Ontario Human Rights Commission calls for revamp of province's approach to early reading.

In 2022, there was an OHRC Right to Read Inquiry about both the balanced literacy and cueing approaches:

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Low literacy rates in Canada prompt reading curriculum changes | CBC Radio Several provinces are rethinking how they teach kids to read, with a “back-to-basics” focus that includes phonics and more structure.

Because reading comprehension is in that order for a reason. I can't remember if I was an early reader but I was reading all the time. I even read the dictionary and stayed in an encyclopedia. In Canada, apparently this balanced literacy approach started in the 90s:
www.cbc.ca/radio/thecur...

I was never educated in the USA, but I'm wondering about how I learned to read here and I don't ever recall being taught to guess. But it was also very common to read aloud in class, read with other classmates etc. If we didn't know a word, we could skip it but we almost always came back to it.

WOAH. I just...have so many thoughts! The first one is that this is actually wild. But if I learned anything concrete doing my Master's in Education, it's that cognitive science has been *very slowly* making its way into education fields, if at all. This seems like a perfect reason to speed that up!

Semi-related, this is one of the reasons you will never, ever catch me at the British Museum. Because actions like this are late and overdue but a [wishy-washy] start on the UK side.

South Africa though, I have so many questions...

I'm taller than average height (5"9.5, so 5"10, lol) but I've been the tallest in most rooms I've been in, starting from childhood. But sometimes I forget because of my siblings, I'm actually the shortest. Shout out to my very tall grandfather for the genetics.

OMG I wanna go to this! 🤣

Was she not embarrazzed? It's like she didn't hear her own words....To admit to ChatGPT use *as a professor* like it was nothing is just...couldn't be me!

The Re-Living Single podcast has been such a joy to engage in. It's become one of my happy places this year. 🥰

If she is, I will be tuning in and CRYING!😭

IDK if there's one in its entirety but parts of New York (Brooklyn and Harlem) and parts of London (England, not Ontario, lol) remind me of parts of Toronto (East Scarborough, Weston and Little Jamaica).

Now I'm curious: What cities have you travelled to that remind you of your own?

Reminds me that I haven't been to Chicago since I was very young (and I don't even remember it) and I'm so overdue for a trip back. And I know in my heart of hearts I'll love it there:

Toronto and Chicago are sister cities 🥰.

Important intergenerational conversations happening here, LOL!

Seriously, this kind of personability is so needed across generations for many reasons, notably for young people to specifically engage and learn and challenge the adults that make decisions about their lives.

He sure did. It was the first thing I saw upon walking into the house, so I had no context for why it happened. My response anyway? "Welp". I just knew it was deserved, lol.

(Same conclusion I came to 🤷🏿‍♀️.)

The way this snow from Sunday has not gone away, lol. I thought we were just getting a little preview of winter, not the extended one! I'm not (ever) ready! 😭

(Watch me take out all my winter clothes only for it to be 15 degrees in three days, smh.)

Me neither, so thank you ☺️!

An angel and a Gemini? And y'all said it was impossible, lol.

Ugh, BEAUTIFUL version!

I personally love what she did with Duke Ellington's work later on. I appreciate hearing her interpretations of songs she sang like, 20 years earlier.