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@jenine_hanson10 @JonHaidt Yikes. We finally started a good cell phone policy in d207. Your son's plan would not have been well received by teachers here.

My son, 15, just explained the all school assembly was about the NEW online bathroom pass. A 6 minute bathroom pass, tracker, via Chromebook or mobile phone. 🤦🏼‍♀️ Also, every teacher has a Remind for every class. The phones are the problem. Well so are decision makers. @JonHaidt

An important study for all schools that have gone tech heavy. Typed notes = ⬆️ more notes Hand written notes = ⬆️ more learning link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Check out this talk by Sonya Thomas - The Power of Parents: How We Are Changing the Literacy Landscape Demanding Data Transparency 2024.sllsummit.com/talks/the-powe…

@ReadSimplified So good...

LIVE now...100% of 2nd graders in district at or above grade level reading expectations! @AngieHanlin 🤩 Join the convo at no cost here: 2024.sllsummit.com/?sc=fmHaoJUG&a… #SLLSummit

Amazing panel discussion tonight!

"You may be wondering – why is the English code so complex? The core reason is that English spellings are borrowed from several other languages." eblireads.com/the-foundation…

Many districts realize they chose the wrong reading curriculum, but won't replace it for 5-7 years. Too expensive... so they try to "patch" it up Kids' lives are too important for a patch #LeadershipMatters

Odd One Out is one of my favorite ways to teach the relationship between words. Which word is not related to the others? Why? abstain, refrain, partake, avoid abundant, scarce, plentiful, ample acquire, obtain, procure, dispose amass, build up, deplete, accumulate

Illinois is moving off the sidelines when it comes to literacy education, and ISBE's Comprehensive Literacy Plan is the first step! Read our memo on the second draft of the plan to see our feedback. ilearlyliteracy.org/2023-literacy-…

Sold a Story makes TIME magazine's Top Ten podcast list. time.com/6321143/best-p…

ISBE released their updated literacy plan this week, and they're asking for feedback! If you haven't had a chance to read it yet, you can find the plan and feedback form at the link below 💡 isbe.net/Lists/News/New…

When I was a little boy, the Japanese military attacked Pearl Harbor. It was a surprise attack, and thousands of U.S. servicemembers perished. As a nation, we were stunned. And we vowed to strike back. Revenge was understandably on everyone’s mind, including many Americans of Japanese descent who opposed the emperor and were peaceful and law-abiding U.S. citizens and residents. In its zeal to exact that revenge, however, the U.S. government overreacted, out of fear and bigotry. They targeted everyone who happened to look like the people who had carried out the attack. Those of us who had done nothing wrong were forced to pay the consequences for the decisions of others far away and disconnected from us. We were interned for years, in open-air prisons, while America went off to fight Japan, Germany and Italy. It’s so important that we carry the lessons of the past through to today. Merely because one group commits atrocities and acts with depravity does not mean vast hundreds of thousands or even millions of others should be lumped together with them and made to suffer. We must never paint with the brush of justice and retaliation too broadly, or the toll of human suffering will rise immeasurably.

Sometimes intermediate students still need to work on their #phonemicawareness we use 1 minute activities from Equipped for Reading Success- David Kilpatrick #SoR @SoRclassroom @goyenfoundation @D99Cicero

📅 Mark your calendars for this showstopper event featuring renowned Science of Reading: The Podcast luminaries! ⁣ 🚀 This free four-hour virtual symposium will give you all the tools you need to get the Science of Reading off the ground in your school: at.amplify.com/symposium23

Teachers: this is going to be excellent PD!

Eight months into the worst chemo shortage in US history, we still have 15 drugs in short supply. 👀Doxil is the latest. None of these chemo agents 💉are on the FDA‘s Essential Medicines list & the current shortages disproportionately affect women. 🤦‍♀️This needs to-no MUST-change.

If you're not using @DiffitApp OMG create a free account now so you keep free access through January. Everytime I look at this, it gets cooler and cooler! INSTANT EVERYTHING. Multiple reading levels, multiple LANGUAGES, multiple tools & resources that are ready to go in seconds.

This summer, The Reading League and the National Committee for Effective Literacy finalized a joint statement on English learners / emergent bilinguals and the science of reading. Read the joint statement on our new Compass' EL/EBs page. bit.ly/3thvyZr

In a new series of @BostonGlobe, @mandy_mclaren and @NaomiMartin dig deep into what's up with literacy in Massachusetts. It's a clear examination of how the system failed. They summarize the accountability issues so well. apps.bostonglobe.com/metro/2023/10/…