Wendy Beitel

It's not the case that children with dyslexia need identical instruction as typically developing kids, just a higher dose: @markseidenberg explains seidenbergreading.net/blog/oexqqvuvp…

So grateful for an unexpected blessing with the opportunity to join the ELD team and Van Hoosen Middle School. Met a few families and students today...what a great new beginning.

Hours and hours and hours and hours...AT LAST!

Our first graders in Mrs. Ureel’s class are practicing sound production and phonics with mirrors to watch the shape their mouths make! #RCSPride

Do you know about the FREE resources we are developing to accompany each lesson in the UFLI Foundations manual? We have already posted hundreds of items on the UFLI Foundations Toolbox. Take a look... ufli.education.ufl.edu/foundations/to…

Hey IMSE Alumni! 👋 💚Back-to-school is the perfect time to join our IMSE Alumni Group on Facebook! Let's build a supportive and inspiring community together! 💡 Join us now: facebook.com/share/g/jdVAte… #IMSEAlumni #IMSE

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ARC Core® Rated Level 1 “Strong” in Evidence for ESSA Initiative by Johns Hopkins University americanreading.com/news/arc-core-… via @AmericanReading

Our community is heartbroken over the violence at the Brooklands Plaza Splash Pad. Our thoughts remain with those who may be impacted. Professional RCS support services are available from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., June 17-18, at Reuther Middle School or by phone at 248-726-4700.

Grateful for the 1st responders in our community. Senseless tragedy... so many lives forever changed.

So many of my colleagues have left the profession between years 3 and 8. So far, none have returned to teaching. Greener grass is real sometimes.

@RacheGabriel If we are replacing reading instruction with decoding instruction, I hope this wave of policy changes faster than previous educational legislation. We can't do this for a decade and be unsurprised by outcomes. Decoding is necessary but not sufficient.

still like my rewrite below

@MargiottaGina Oh yeah, forgot that one from my list!

Twenty-seven years in elementary education and more than 13 curricular resources/methodologies for reading... I do believe all children can learn to read. If we could focus more on pedagogy and a bit less on resource roulette, I think we'd increase success.

What about those reading textbook reviews? shanahanonliteracy.com/blog/what-abou…

Be brave friends. Stand up for the world you believe in - for the vision of readers with choice and freedom and the integral role of libraries in our society. You matter. We matter. And we are always stronger together.

@JSerravallo With teachers. Yes!

🧵 4/? So what could/should they have done instead? What could/should other states with new legislation do instead? **Invest in your teachers. Hire literacy coaches who understand the shifts that need to be made. Support professional learning. Make curricular mods WITH teachers

🧵1/? This is a cautionary tale. Throwing out one curriculum and swapping it in for a new one is not it. Leaders....are you listening? chalkbeat.org/newyork/2023/1…

A reminder to myself as a district searches for a swap. Listen to teachers & listen to students. Qualitative data is data.

Explicit, systematic instruction in phonics: Professional learning by UFLI reminding teachers that phonemic awareness and grapheme phoneme correspondence are necessary for encoding and decoding