Jenna Sartorio
786 posts
Jenna Sartorio
@CoachJenna10
Florida Certified Literacy Coach, Cheer Coach, Freedom Defender
Cocoa Beach, FL Katılım Kasım 2021
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Reflecting on the multiple-strategy approach to teaching basic math operations: it creates confusion & cognitive overload, but it also comes with an opportunity cost. If so much time is spent on multiple strategies, when do students actually become fluent with any one of them?
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@unpopularcheer Which is why people should SIT DOWN during performances 😡
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@ninja_maths Yes! Learn a specific skill. Then learn the next skill that requires using the first skill learned ❤️
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The most efficient way to strengthen knowledge is often not to keep repeating it in isolation.
It is to continue building on top of it.
The more connections a piece of knowledge has, the more ingrained, organized, and retrievable it becomes.
That is one reason serious mathematical development should not feel like a sequence of disconnected units.
It should feel like a growing structure.
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@TheKevinDalton Dude. I LIVE on the space coast. Zero excitement from any school except the charter school 😞
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Just picked up my son from elementary school and was blown away that ZERO parents or kids were aware of the Artemis II launch.
Have we lost complete interest in space travel?
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@ninja_maths Can someone let iReady and envision and Savaas know ?!
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Premature probing can backfire because early understanding is often fragile, partial, and not yet very verbal.
A student may be in the middle of forming a workable mental model.
Too much demand for immediate explanation can destabilize that process.
Alex Smith@ninja_maths
One mistake people make in math education is to assume that, when a student first encounters a new idea, the right move is immediately to start “probing for conceptual understanding.” Usually, that is too early. A good tutor often does something simpler and more humane than that: A brief motivation, a carefully chosen worked example based on their existing knowledge profile, closely related practice, and then a gradual increase in complexity. Students need some chance to internalize new information before they are interrogated about it. Too much probing too early does not reliably build understanding. Very often, it just disrupts the beginnings of it.
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If your Muslim neighbor says you must get rid of your dog to respect Islam, what would you do?
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@DanaPalubiak And the same kids get to hear and see they are below the mark 12-15 times per year 😞
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iReady. NWEA. State tests.
We benchmark kids constantly, sit in PLCs, analyze the data…
and then nothing changes in the classroom.
At some point you have to ask:
is this about learning or just looking like we’re doing something?
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The Science of Reading promised that if we just taught phonics with enough fidelity, comprehension would follow.
Now scores aren't moving. So the pivot: "Actually, they need knowledge."
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@jasonterry2024 They’ll just get bought and do what the uni party wants anyway. They all hate us 🤷🏼♀️
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All Democrats gotta do is run an educated, married to a white woman, white man and promote free healthcare, safety nets in the age of AI, closed borders, grey area in LGBTQ shit, and no wars; and they’ll win bigger than Obama did in 2008.
It’s simple man!!
Leading Report@LeadingReport
BREAKING: Some Democrat strategists are suggesting the party nominate a straight, white, Christian man to run for president in 2028, per Axios.
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@anothercohen Yeah our slider is going to be 15k. I just keep spraying the track down and hoping for the best 😆
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As a homeowner, all I’m asking is that someone invent new windows that don’t cost a minimum of $1k each
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@MissyPurcell Come on now. Is anyone really surprised by this ?! 😆
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New York is a cautionary tale.
You can invest millions in “science of reading,” but if the wrong people are leading it, you risk recreating the same failed systems under a new name.
Leadership isn’t optional. It’s everything.
hechingerreport.org/new-york-ten-m…
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@BarackObama The only thing the aca did was make health insurance MORE expensive for working folks and free for all the freeloaders on the backs of the working folks 😆
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The day the Affordable Care Act passed was one of my proudest moments as president, because it meant that millions of Americans would have access to health care, some for the first time.
The ACA also prevented insurance companies from denying people with pre-existing conditions coverage, allowed young people under the age of 26 to remain on their parents’ plan, expanded Medicaid, and so much more.
But the ACA was always meant to be a first step. We still have to do more to expand access and make health care more affordable for everyone.
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@karenvaites @oliviajune82 Science and Social Studies = Language development in early childhood. I have a masters degree in early childhood education and wow. 🤯 thank you!
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.@oliviajune82 makes the case for science as a springboard for oral language development beautifully here.
'Science instruction is also rife with causal and temporal events and language. (Causal: “The paperclip moved because of the magnetic force.” Temporal: “First, set the block on the starting line. Next, squeeze your air blower.”)'
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@TolentinoTeach My first principal admonished my letter formation station (I taught kinder) and required I stop it in favor of “more rigorous” independent learning stations detailed in our amazing new curriculum- Reading Street 🤮
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When we become obsessed with “rigor” and dismiss fundamental skills as “below grade level,” we stop teaching for student needs and start teaching for appearances.
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@PriscillaWest77 @karenvaites @marcportermagee It’s baffling why they think spending hours of class time guessing at the meaning of words if preferable to just looking them up or teaching affixes and roots I’ll never figure out 😭
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We always stopped reading to look up the word in other dictionary. I was shocked when my littles came home telling me the were supposed to guess the meanings of words…They’re in High School now, and thanks to this nonsense, it is still a struggle. They think Mom’s just an overachiever…. 😬😭
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Fun fact:
The most-used ELA curricula in FL are weak. The three most-used programs in the state are book-starved and knowledge-lite, partly PC the state adoption process went downhill in recent years.
It's the best explanation I can offer for the declines @marcportermagee is noting... other than an apparent defocus on academic details like literacy in favor of governance-model-focus (ie charters and vouchers).
Marc Porter Magee 🎓@marcportermagee
This is a ranking of states by average change in reading and math scores on the 4th and 8th grade NAEP between 2022 and 2024 (using scale scores). Mississippi is #1 and Florida is #50.
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The biggest lever to make learning fun: don't overwhelm the learner. Yes, make it cool -- but more importantly, make it doable.
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