Jen Frenette

Welker to Lavrov: "Here are the facts. Close to 50,000 civilians have either been killed or injured in this war. Russia has hit maternity wards, churches, schools, hospitals, a kindergarten just this week. So either the Russian military has terrible aim or you are targeting civilians. Which is it?"

8 pieces of life advice from dads To honor the dads in our lives for Father's Day, we're sharing some of the best life advice our listeners ever got from their dads.

"Learn everything you can about what you love, and no one can take that from you," says one reader's dad. Here are 7 other pieces of fatherly advice.

Year end data is coming in and UFLI has definitely made a positive impact on my students’ learning this year!

Had to take a little break from UFLI because my district’s S&S specifically teaches blends but we’re so happy to be back!

A quote next to an image of the Martin Luther King Jr. statue in Washington, D.C. Quote: Education must enable one to sift and weight evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.

A continuation of the Martin Luther King quote: "The function of education, thereforse, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Martin Luther King Jr. The Purpose of Education

Martin Luther King Jr.'s words couldn't be more important in today's info landscape.

✨ As we celebrate MLK Day, let us review his article, "The Purpose of Education," which was published in the Morehouse College student newspaper in 1947.

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“Reading comprehension isn’t just a skill—it depends on knowledge. Without background knowledge, students struggle to understand what they read.”

@natwexler.bsky.social explains why building knowledge is key to literacy success. #SOR #KnowledgeMatters

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Does Teaching 'Sight Words' Contradict the Science of Reading? Simple words like "the" and "of" are everywhere, but don't follow regular phonics patterns. How should teachers approach them?

Restructuring the way I teach high frequency words has made a dramatic difference in how my students have mastered these words www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

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Kids deserve ed leaders and decision-makers who are clear-eyed and relentless in their pursuit of helping them become proficient readers.
#Edusky
#SOR
#EduSky

Powerful words from Executive Director Kareem Weaver to ground our work heading into the new year: “[Literacy] is the gateway to society, its institutions, and the basic opportunities that we want for all kids.”

#Literacy is the fundamental #CivilRight of our time.

Rethinking Reading

If you've seen this Catts & Kamhi piece floating around your feeds over the past few weeks but haven't read it yet, I highly recommend taking a few mins to read it. It's a brilliant and accessible summary of so much research related to reading comprehension. www.aft.org/ae/winter202...

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Universal Screening
for Children at Risk for Dyslexia
Why? Research Shows…

Joseph Torgesen “we can, using tests currently available, accurately identify students who are likely to struggle with reading starting in preschool or kindergarten."

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UFLI working its magic in our classroom!

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