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May 28 • 7 tweets • 9 min read
Who wants to talk about something positive? 🙋🏼‍♀️

Tennessee’s #Reading360 training continues to get insanely-good feedback. 👀

When is the last time you heard these sorts of reviews of any training, no less a state training?

It’s the unicorn of professional learning. 🦄
This year, @TNedu is doing something truly pioneering, adding a Secondary Literacy Training for upper grade Eds, in addition to its well-reviewed Early Reading Training.

This is huge! Many kids get to secondary w/ reading struggles. Teachers need more support.

Details here:
So in its first week, Secondary Literacy Training got 100% positives from participants…

While Early Reading Training (for K-5 teachers) continues to get astoundingly-good feedback.

Just Wow, @TNedu @SchwinnTeach @lisacoons10 @JaredMyracle. 👏👏👏👏👏
I had privilege to visit 3 TN districts who participated in #Reading360 Early Reading Training last year.

Pls hear the voices in thread below. I want this for all teachers.🙏

cc: @TonyThurmond @AllisterSBOE @brookepintodc @NYSEDNews @nyschoolboards @NYSchoolSupts @KathyHochul
It isn’t just about teacher training; we also want high-quality curriculum in all schools… something TN has accomplished in virtually every district.

This K writing in @BSCSD (NY) just came thru my feed; I want THIS for all kinders!

@NYSEDNews @nyschoolboards @NYSchoolSupts
This week, CA’s education chief rejected calls to take real action for children’s literacy: the74million.org/article/amid-l…

And flaws w America’s most popular reading curriculum were on front page of @nytimes, c/o @DanaGoldstein: nytimes.com/2022/05/22/us/…

Quite the counterpoint to TN.
We need to keep talking about success in TN (IMHO the national leader for combining teacher support w strong curriculum) and actions in lead states BC other states must catch up.

@TonyThurmond @AllisterSBOE @brookepintodc @NYSEDNews @nyschoolboards @NYSchoolSupts @KathyHochul

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Don’t tell me any more about the good guy with the gun when the paid, trained guys let this happen to children.
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Are we sure it’s too late for an American third party?

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Eliza’ an activist in reporter’s clothing.

I agree with her goal of more equitable education, but she clearly has a simplistic narrative: ending selective programs is the one and only answer.

Meanwhile, on her watch, @NYCSchools used curriculum that failed Black children…
… according to the new @DOEChancellor.‼️

Improving systemwide teaching and learning MUST be a goal of any school system with @NYCSchools’s reading and math outcomes, and Eliza consistently ignores that angle.

And she showed her lack of awareness of the reading and math gains in multiple urban districts in the process.

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“I learned from parents on Twitter.”

An educator talking about where she learned essential research on how kids learn to read.

We don’t talk enough about the role of parent advocacy in the Science of Reading movement.
Another interesting parent reflection.

How much did the pandemic accelerate the movement because parents could see the issues with the way their kids were being taught to read?
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👉 Lucy. Calkins.

Seriously, we don’t talk enough about the positive impact of parent voices.
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May 23
The most important repost of @DanaGoldstein’s piece that you’ll see.

It’s from @TNedu Commissioner. She has led the effort to get high-quality ELA curriculum in nearly every districts, and her schools are reaping the benefit.

“I appreciate the changes, but go all the way.”
Folks, we have a tie.

From the head of @NCTQ, and until recently, a leader in @MASchoolsK12:

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I’m here for these calls for curriculum improvement from state leaders, especially the ones who have taken clear, strong action to get their districts to stop using Balanced Literacy curricula and start using high-quality curriculum.

True of @SchwinnTeach and @HeatherPeske.
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May 23
“Her first iterations may not have included what the current brain research says is important…”

The research is decades old, but OK.

A window into the perspectives of teachers defending Lucy Calkins:
“Us teachers used to joke that it was a @TeachersCollege cult.”

When you talk with teachers who have made the shift away from #TCRWP, the word cult is used a lot.
“Seduced by”
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