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Mar 13 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
On my way to Tennessee, and SO EXCITED for this leg of the #KnowledgeMatters School Tour!

Did you know Tennessee created its own free, open source foundational skills curriculum for schools? #swoon

I see it in action tomorrow in @ElizCitySchools!
Tennessee is a standout leader in use of high-quality curriculum, and they’ve done much more to advance reading instruction under the #Reading360 initiative.

I’ll be there a few times for @TNedu Tennessee Literacy Month, and it’s truly an honor to see and share this work.
In the meantime, enjoy this phonics lesson from one of our previous trips to Tennessee, in @PCSSTN.

Every child deserves to learn “the code” of the English language, and this is how it’s done.

#TNReadingForAll
Also, follow @stbarnett87 @mdtaylor0203 @MyraNewmanm @rachelcdarnell, leaders in @ElizCitySchools.

They'll be sharing their work this week, too.

More on the @TNedu Foundational Skills Curriculum Supplement:

Grades K–2, "six to ten units, decodable readers, and intervention support are available depending on grade level."

Earns raves from @ComerCarissa & @rachelcdarnell:
tn.gov/education/news…

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Mar 14
Starting your day in a kindergarten is always good.

When the kinders are completely engaged in a strong phonics lesson, learning a new digraph, it’s AWESOME.

A peek into a lesson on the /ch/ digraph: Image
I’m visiting with the #KnowledgeMatters School Tour, one of my favorite initiatives in K-12.

The tour visits schools doing 💪 work with high-quality curriculum. This leg visits Tennessee schools using the free foundational skills curriculum developed by @TNedu.

More here:
It’s the first year with a strong systematic phonics program… but you wouldn’t know it!

We spotted sound walls the minute we walked in. Image
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Mar 6
"We discovered that babies begin lip-reading at around 8 months of age. Crucially, the onset of lip-reading at this age corresponds w the onset of canonical babbling, suggesting that babies begin lip-reading BC they become interested in speech & language."
scientificamerican.com/article/masks-…
Yes, I know that no one has proved that infant development has been harmed by masked caregivers in their midst.

(No one has proved infants/toddlers are A-OK, either.)

But can you read this piece w/o any concern?
"Bilingual babies rely more on visual speech cues to help them keep their two languages apart."

Language learners are more vulnerable to potential impacts from masking.
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Mar 5
I would like to know if the people who are fearful of their kids’ risk from COVID have stopped taking them in cars and buses.
We did a horrible job helping parents to understand the real risks from COVID if we still have a segment of parents who are fearful.
All of these people are replying to this post to talk about mitigations.

This post isn’t about mitigations at all.

It’s about the fact that a segment of Americans still has fear of risks about kids… and I am SURE that they don’t bring corresponding anxiety to car rides.
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Feb 22
"ASHA has reached out to CDC, expressing its concern about inconsistencies and urging the agency to utilize the expertise of SLPs when making changes to developmental milestones."

Important statement by @ASHAWeb RE latest CDC updates:

facebook.com/asha.org/posts…

cc: @AmerAcadPeds
👉 "the milestones presented to parents must be evidence-based"

Tell me you are calling out the @CDCgov @AmerAcadPeds without telling me you are calling out...
This thread has background on the issue.

It's long and it meandered a bit; some of the more important info is towards the end. Thanks to everyone who stayed with it and raised awareness of this troubling CDC milestone change.

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Feb 19
A worrisome sign that #MedTwitter is broken:

In the Before Times, I bet you could get doctors like Freedman and the many health professionals reposting his thread to agree that this CDC change is bad. Poorly-executed, at minimum.

Now? Folks can only talk Mask Wars.
Let’s say that docs like @amychomd (who reposted it) believe the thread.

Can we not agree that this is crummy, anti-child communication by the CDC?

If the CDC is trying to emphasize the at-risk milestone, website changes like this are NOT getting it done.
What’s more, speech experts DO encourage Early Intervention at age 2 for severe speech delays, and I saw how EI changed my daughter’s life.

Most state EI programs end at age 3. Are we really all ready to cheer the CDC for elevating the 30 month milestone?

It feels anti-child.
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Feb 19
Yesterday, I held off talking about the CDC speech guidance change BC I noticed a thing when I was searching Twitter for more info.

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There are more than the 7 shown here.

Search this phrase in Twitter, you’ll see:

The CDC just quietly lowered the standards for speech in early childhood development.

Now children should know ~50 words at 30mo rather than 24mo.
Generally, I try to do my homework and only tweet after reading articles, or when I have evidence for thing I am claiming.

I felt like it was a little odd that I didn’t hear back with much of substance when I asked for more info… that was Hmmm number one.
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