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Sunday, May 27, 2018

The Folly of Test and Punish Education Reform

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In April the NAEP Test scores were released and even the most ardent advocates of test-based education reform had to be disappointed. Scor...
Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Following the Child: What Does that Look Like?

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David Last week my post, Follow the Child, Not the Program,  discussed the importance of taking our cues from the children we are teach...
Thursday, May 17, 2018

Follow the Child, Not the Program

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I got into a bit of a twitter spat recently with a well-known literacy expert who reacted strongly to one of my posts. After a bit of back a...
Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Curiosity May Have Killed the Cat, But It Makes the Learner

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Why, oh why, oh why, oh why? Why, oh why, oh why? Because, because, because, because Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye. (from Why, Oh Why, ...
Sunday, May 6, 2018

Why Teachers Must Respect Non-Standard English

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The single greatest ally young children bring to learning to read is their oral language. Oral language provides the foundation for learni...
Sunday, April 15, 2018

Expanding "No Excuses" Models is a Bad Idea

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An organization called The Future of Children came out recently with a report titled Charter Schools and the Achievement Gap by Sarah C...
Thursday, March 15, 2018

Building Vocabulary: Words in Context

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This post is the fourth in a series on vocabulary instruction. Part 1 provided an overview , Part 2 focused on the conceptual base for voca...
Thursday, March 8, 2018

Building Vocabulary: The List-Group-Label-Add Strategy

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This post is the third in a series on vocabulary instruction. You can find Part 1: An Overview here and Part 2: Teaching from a Conceptual...