Thread by @karenvaites

Children not reading on grade level should never become normal.

From a retired superintendent:

https://twitter.com/tgrierhisd/status/1527247364666404864

Your daily reminder that only a third of US students are proficient in reading in 4th grade.

Worse yet, the figure doesn’t improve by 8th grade.

In this same period, US graduation rates have dramatically improved.

Schools just pass on & graduate kids that read poorly.

This is actually a prescient tweet about one of the biggest roots of the issue:

Mostly, there is a pervasive misunderstanding about how kids learn to read, and the best tactics for accelerating literacy rates.

People don’t know what they don’t know. Big barrier to change.

https://twitter.com/tgrierhisd/status/1527011012204969987

You hear district leaders explaining that they only learned key information about how kids learn to read as district leaders… 15+ years into careers. How could this be??

This is why I get excited about investments in training like @TNedu’s #Reading360, crossing K-12 Eds:

https://twitter.com/lisacoons10/status/1526351453069234176

Districts that have improved reading instruction often have leaders who can point to an “aha” moment / learning journey on how kids learn to read.

This professional learning begets better curriculum choices, which begets better teaching.

A great read:
edweek.org/teaching-learn…