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We promote excellent instructional practices in schools and raise awareness of the importance of content knowledge to reading comprehension & critical thinking.
Nov 19, 2021 15 tweets 12 min read
When our #KnowledgeMatters Tour visited @SalemSchoolsk12, we heard about the district’s shift from Teachers College Reading Workshop to stronger curriculum.

Teachers @staceyvail523, Erica Cabral, and Samantha Lear shared their experiences.

#CurriculumMattersMA #tcrwp ImageImageImage “We were pulling from 125 different places.

There was so much cross checking between making sure that we were covering things that Lucy might not spell out so easily,” like teaching nouns and verbs.

@staceyvail523, a seventeen year veteran teacher in grades K and 2
Nov 17, 2021 18 tweets 10 min read
Let’s hear from teachers in UP Academy Holland about the shift from @FountasPinnell / balanced literacy to research-aligned curriculum, @ELeducation.

You don’t want to miss this… 🔥

#CurriculumMattersMA Image Tiana Wallace says that before, “everything was bucketed.”

“In writers workshop, you might be focused on animals. In read aloud, you might be focused on family.”

@ELeducation, which is designed for deep study in content areas, is supporting stronger vocab acquisition for Ss.