I'm a passionate EDUCATOR aspiring to be a key agent of change! #Consultant #NBCT #Literacy #Leadership #NOLA #LiteracyisLiberty
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I’m excited to finally share that my first book, Scaffolding Complex Texts, will be released by Scholastic in October 2026.
This book is rooted in a belief that has shaped much of my work as an educator:
Complexity is worth it🔥🔥🔥
This book is about helping teachers scaffold students’ intellectual growth against the staircase of complexity.
Stay tuned!
Mitchell Brookins, Ph.D. retweeted
If you don’t know @MitchellBrookns you should.
This 2022 talk w Susan Lambert made me pull over on the side of the road to take deep breaths — the thought of so many kids being left illiterate without people like Mitchell in their corner is almost too much to bear
open.spotify.com/episode/3wy…
Headed to Chicago for The Reading League Conference!
1). Come join me tomorrow for my session where I’ll be sharing how to “Scaffold the Text, then Scaffold the Thinking”
2). Come celebrate my BOOK BIRTHDAY on Thursday at my book signing!🎉🎉🎉
It’s going to be a GOOD TIME 💯
#TRLCONF2026
#ComplexityisWorthIt🔥🔥🔥
📚🎉 It’s official! Pre-sales for Scaffolding Complex Texts is HERE!
Grateful to @MrZachG for being an early reader of the text! Even more, for ALWAYS showing our field what it looks like to champion explicit instruction. Every time I see you, you’re teaching, leading a webinar, or pushing educators’ thinking. Thanks for being an example of what it means to stay in the work.
Scholastic: bit.ly/4fX080k
Amazon: a.co/d/0hTNK5Fj
📚🎉 It’s official! Pre-sales for Scaffolding Complex Texts are now OPEN!
Pre-Order Here: a.co/d/0hTNK5Fj
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If you’ve been saying “I’ll redesign my units this summer,” don’t wait. We can’t close learning gaps w/ engagement strategies alone. Only the learner learns.
Register to join my Summer Cohort (June–Aug) & build lessons that build real learning power: ready4rigor.com/summerplc #edu
Middle school students already bring the energy.
They want to talk.
They want to react.
They want to make sense of things out loud.
So the question is not how to get them to speak.
It is how we channel that talk into thinking.
How do we move from checking answers
to constructing insight?
That’s what I’m wrestling with in my latest blog featured in EDView360 blog series with Voyager Sopris Learning
READ ALL ABOUT IT below:
lnkd.in/exxi6zEc
I already KNOWWW @MrZachG is going to speak facts and amplify what our systems need. Every time I see the title of his book, I find myself saying “Yes! Pleeeeeeaaaase TELL them!!” 🙌🏾🤣🙌🏾
Looking forward to joining the Michigan Reading Association’s 70th Annual Conference this weekend!
If you’re attending, stop by Sunday at 10:15 a.m. for my session on disciplinary literacy:
Taking a Discipline-Specific Approach Toward Literary Texts: Analyzing Language, Structure, and Perspective
We’ll dig into how we can move students beyond surface reading and really analyze texts through examining writers’ craft, structure, and perspective. The kind of moves skilled writers make!
Hope to see you there!
#MRA26 #DisciplinaryLiteracy #LiteracyLeadership
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Reading Isn’t Optional: Fulfilling the Promise of Literacy for Secondary Students is here.
If we believe every adolescent deserves access to complex text, strong instruction, and open doors, this book is for you.
Solution Tree: solutiontree.com/reading-isn…
As I looked back and reflected on my conversation with @AngieHanlin, one question stayed with me:
What does it look like when school leaders are truly supporting literacy, not just administering it?
For me, it comes down to capacity building.
Developing teachers’ content expertise.
Being precise about the instructional routines you expect to see.
Coaching in ways that build clarity and confidence so teachers grow in their craft.
Ultimately, when you grow teachers, you grow students!
I watched Left Behind AGAIN this week.
It documents a group of parents in New York City who came together to fund and create the South Bronx Literacy Academy, the city's first public school designed specifically for students with dyslexia.
Parents saw their children struggling, and they felt that the system wasn’t shifting fast enough.
Thanks, @KJWinEducation, for bringing this to my attention!
Check it out here: leftbehindthefilm.com/?ss_so…
@KJWinEducation …is there any discussion of this moving to another platform that people can access or will it continue to be private viewing?
Junior Great Books taught me one thing: great discussions don’t happen by accident.
They happen because students know the text—through rereads, analysis, and intellectual engagement.
If we want knowledge, vocabulary, and critical thinking to grow, we can’t skip the conversation.
On Dec 10, @GreatBooksFnd & edWeb is hosting a panel discussion (yours truly is an invited guest 🙌🏾) on how teachers become conductors of academic talk that brings the Science of Reading to life.
Register Here: greatbooks.org/edweb
Excited to join my FIRST Mississippi Winter Literacy Conference next Friday!!!
If you’re attending, stop by my session — we’ll explore how to help middle school students develop their arguments and deepen their thinking. Quality writing starts with quality thought.
#makingasplash
