Big Ideas in Literacy

@Kathy_Rice @ChatGPTapp @LindsayKemeny @thinkSRSD @smorrisey @literacypodcast Care to share an anonymous examplar?

What a morning! Colleague asked to revise their daily literacy block. Used @ChatGPTapp to take the components we intend to use - Rewards Literacy Program, Fluency Inst @LindsayKemeny, close reading, @thinkSRSD, vocab instruction @smorrisey, & a @literacypodcast. Volia! #timesaver

Different instructional strategies are needed for different stages of learning. @amandavande1 #MTSS #RTI

@C_Hendrick I think about this much differently. I like to frame this idea with questions - who & how do we bridge the vastly different worlds of those with PhDs versus those who teach in the classrooms each day? How do both worlds come together successfully for better student outcomes?

Having a PhD in education doesn't make you an expert in teaching. In fact, in many cases it's the opposite.

@smmascia @NateJoseph19 Yes!! 😎

@NateJoseph19 How about one who has a PhD and 46 years in the classroom… at all levels? 😎

Accreditation has value and earning a PhD is an incredible accomplishment (one I don’t have). But I also think that we cannot rely on appeals to authority alone. I’d take the advice of a teacher with 10 years experience over a PhD, who only spent 2 years in the classroom.

Check out our latest article: Advancing e-assessment for learning in the primary EFL writing classroom: the role of collaborative teacher professional learning tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… @AegQueens

Here is my version of a reading rope for math. Open link in a browser and you can click/hover on stars to see which skills are targeted by grade & area of understanding. springmath.org/sites/default/… Also, here is a table showing skills by grade level springmath.org/sites/default/…

Improving Decision Making in School Psychology: Making a Difference in the Lives of Students, Not Just a Prediction About Their Lives #abstract" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.17… @amandavande1 @burnsmk1

How the Taxonomy can be used to systematize the process by which special educators (a) set up the intensive intervention process and (b) monitor the student's response and systematically improve the program to match the target student's individual needs. eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1160167

@C_Hendrick Such a brilliant thread! Thank you!

So to learn anything effectively, the process needs to be paradoxically both easy and hard. Like everything else, Shakespeare had a handle on this hundreds of years before everyone else. As Duke Senior says in As You Like It: "Sweet are the uses of adversity."

Possibly the most difficult challenge teachers face in instructional design is the “transfer paradox” otherwise known as the deceptive trade-off between immediate performance vs. long-term transfer. A short 🧵⬇️

@Jason_To I think about this. I wonder if the practice is evidence-based, or if it just aligns w research? And then I wonder if a T practice be considered evidence-based if it applies research-based principles in real time, even if specific implementation hasn’t been directly studied.

Question: If a principle of instruction is research-based (e.g. presenting new material in small steps), and a teaching practice follows that principle, does that make that practice research-based? I guess I'm wondering how much latitude a teacher has for following a principle.

@CathyMarksKrpan @Jason_To Only some?? 😉

We need to recognize that some of the most powerful, meaningful research in education is not facilitated by academics, but by teachers, EVERY DAY in their classrooms. Sometimes, this fact gets overlooked in the world of PD, publications etc.

@Jason_To @TDSBmath @ruthbeatty11 Her work is outstanding!

Math Learning Partners from @TDSBmath begin their journey from patterns to algebra with the amazing @ruthbeatty11. A main takeaway from day 1: describing a pattern rule like “start with 3 & add 2 each time” does not promote algebraic or multiplicative thinking in students. Instead, focus on the relationship between the number of items and the position number to support generalization of the pattern (e.g. position #1 has 1 group of 2 and 3 more, position #2 has 2 groups of 2 and 3 more…position #n has n groups of 2 and 3 more).

@Jason_To @TDSBmath Deeply appreciate Dr. Alex Lawson and love the developmental trajectories!

Last week, Math Learning Partners from @tdsbmath took in some amazing learning w/ Dr. Alex Lawson & Heather Wark on their latest research into multiplicative reasoning. Thinking multiplicatively is so crucial for children. Without progressing from additive thinking, students are ill-prepared for ratios, rates, algebra, and other more complex math ideas.

@smorrisey Love this!

When thinking about morphology, we should think about the most important affixes and roots for each topic area. Let's take civics for example. These are roots that should be an area of focus during a civics unit.

@MmeLockhartLDSB @rastokke Thank you for sharing - I LOVE a good developmental scope and sequence!

@rastokke @ehanford @burnsmk1 A great prompt to listen to this again- one of my favourites!

If you listened to @ehanford's podcast Sold a Story and would like to know what's going on in math, please check out my podcast! A good episode to start with is this one, which explores parallels between reading and math with Matt Burns @burnsmk1. open.spotify.com/episode/277F6u…

@ANLiteracy @jenrogersco @thismomloves SO fabulous!

@Bigideasinlit @jenrogersco @thismomloves Ahh, yes. I agree! Writing CBMs can be useful, and Intervention Central is such a fabulous website, too!

Diagnostic assessments in reading aren’t just to inform remedial instruction. I completed the CORE Phonics assessment with an advanced student to see just how high we can start! (I thought you’d be proud of me @ANLiteracy!)

@jenrogersco @thismomloves @ANLiteracy This is a great cbm from Intervention Central that can provide a lot of great information for you about student #writing #cbm #dynamicassessment interventioncentral.org/teacher-resour…

@thismomloves @ANLiteracy What screener would you use for writing?

@amandavande1 Thank you!

@Bigideasinlit here's a 30-min I did back in 2021 can't remember for who. many of the same points. dropbox.com/scl/fi/l1vi1m2…

I debated someone last week at the Educational Writers Association meeting on conceptual v procedural math instruction. Kids need both everyday following the science of learning. Here's a short clip on the Instructional Hierarchy. How do people still not know about this?