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I am once again here to remind you all that nobody says that kids have to love math before we teach them early numeracy skills. Stop doing that with literacy.
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Rachel Harvey retweeted
Please don't tell me your teaching methods and materials are culturally relevant, inclusive, or liberatory if they produce illiterate children. Just don't.
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We used to have public magnet schools that each had a different emphasis. I went to a science and engineering one. Then they got rid of them and now all schools are everything schools.
āWe should start a leadership program.ā
No we shouldnāt, we have way too many programs.
I met my Twitter friends @EliseLovejoy and @MissyPurcell today! It was a great time š©µ
The way black women are underrepresented in the fields of educational specialities is almost depressing.
Please let me know where I can find networks of black SLPs, CALTs, and other language interventionists.
Today, a student with severe ADHD told me āYou're a gentle parenting kind of teacher. You correct us and then justā¦forget all about it. I like that we get 2nd chances from you.ā
I almost started crying. Because all I want is for children to be treated with dignity and respect.
My average class size this school year is 3 kids. One kid on my roster gets 1:1 dyslexia therapy for an hour every single day.
Iām living a dream š„°š„¹
I worked at a failing school & saw how the public school system fails kids. I also worked at an A school & saw how the public school system fails kids.
Corrupt ppl will find a way to self preserve even if itās at the expense of children.
I left public ed with no regrets.
Itās hard to be happy about this because I know that inflation exists because of school leaders (like the one I used to work for) forcing teachers to coach kids towards benchmark scores by sending home the DIBELS test materials in āpractice bindersā for the sake of numbers.
Louisiana students in grades K-3 improved their reading scores by 10 percentage points on the stateās first universal literacy screener. #laed #lagov #lalege ow.ly/bCJz50SxTyl
When I worked in public education it was 8-9 week depending on if you were a new teacher. I work in private education now and we get 12 weeks off for summer. It is amazing.
I regularly tell teachers to make the switch to a private school.
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When educators say that they don't understand why parents don't believe in or trust the public education system, my response is almost always, "Can you blame them? What evidence do we have to support the idea that it has done right by children?"
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Rachel Harvey retweeted
Yes!!!! In other words like it has been said before: We can't intervene our way out of a Tier 1 problem.
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I respect people who love summer, but I donāt understand them. To me, summer is a thing to be endured, and fall is our reward for making it to the end.
I remember teaching 2nd grade math, science, and social studies at a school where about 85% of the kids were reading below grade level. The principal told us that we need develop strategies to make sure they didn't fail the district-wide science and social studies tests.
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In May, about 75% of the 2nd graders were set to be retained because they had failed so many tests. We got permission to read the last test to them. We knew that it still wouldn't bring their grades up enough.
I left that school w/o an ounce of guilt. Here's why.
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