@MmeLockhartLDS @demetriosnAB 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Maybe if the provincial screener actually had the ability to identify kids at risk instead of only identifying the very very weakest they would be in a better place. And now Saskatchewan follows……
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Laura O'Brien
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Laura O'Brien
@Quest4Readers
She/Her. PhD Candidate, Literacy Coach. Mom, teacher, book lover, continuous learner. Living on Treaty 4 territory.
Melville, Saskatchewan Katılım Haziran 2017
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@burnsmk1 @ReadingShanahan Do you know of any research that would look at comparing reading screeners? I’m looking for anything that may point to whether different screeners identify significantly different amounts of students as at risk?
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@SorforMore Our advice to school leaders: find the disruptors
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Disruptors are needed, but not always welcomed in this work.
This is spot on…
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-Final thought, in light of DEs parting comments, he can be butthurt all he wants but its very clear from the way CBJ is playing now that he was out of touch with his locker room and was getting nowhere near enough what they are capable of. 4 pts back, keep it going
4/4
#CBJ
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Some thoughts re last night's win
-Voronkov was definitely benched in favor of Heinin (who had a great game btw) and I wonder how well Voronkovs slower paced game is going to mesh with RBs style. He isn't very tenacious either...
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🚨 #CBJ goal: Damon Severson
Oh my. That was just a rocket. The Jackets get the puck to Dmitri Voronkov with space in the middle of the ice, he drops a pass to Severson, and he simply rips a slapper past Meriläinen.
CBJ up 2-0 1:21 into the second.
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Damon Severson extended his point streak to four games with his goal earlier this period, while Cole Sillinger now has a two-assist night upon his last-minute move up the lineup. #CBJ
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@MrZachG The amount of daily “free time” my son gets because he is “done” is astonishing.
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Option 1: Homeschool
Option 2: Try to make teachers "differentiate"
Option 3: Wait 3 years for a GT test that may or may not put her on an accelerated track
Option 4: GTFO of here and move to a school with a true mastery-based, Direct Instruction system for true acceleration
Zach Groshell@MrZachG
"June, June, June. What am I going to do with you?" That's what my child's teacher told us/her at conferences. And it wasn't because she is naughty. It was because she already knows all the grade level content. I'm no longer going to accept this BS, and neither should you.
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@smorrisey Is this something that is available for teachers to use?
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I will take a compliment whenever I can get it. It is especially nice to get one from such an amazing teacher. Accuracy and Fluency results are amazing and the drivers of the WMP are vocabulary, morphology, and spelling. It appears to drive fluency growth as well! 1/
Elana Gordon@mommagordon2
Recently educators on X have been sharing snippets of the Word Mapping Project by @smorrisey I tried it as an intervention.Turns out the 30 min. W/these kids might b the most effective.I don’t typically promote educators as curr. writers, but WMP is 🧵⬇️ @PatriceBain1 @D99Cicero
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How do we support struggling readers in grades 4 and up?
This article reviews over 23 meta-analyses on the topic, provides a step by step guide to intervention, and new free resources, including a phonics app that can create up to 400 pages of workbooks.
teachingbyscience.com/older-students
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Interventionists and Paras:
We spent time and effort getting these five kids assessed, placed, and transported to a dedicated intervention space during valuable instructional time.
For goodness sakes, don’t waste the opportunity on Bingo games. They’ll never catch up then!
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When you conduct research on children, you have to go through all sorts of ethical procedures to ensure the intervention won’t penalize the child. No need to worry about experimenting on children with disproven methods on a regular, large scale basis though 🤦♂️
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Reflecting on the critical importance of implementation science in my latest blogpost: megankruse.edublogs.org/2025/11/16/imp…
@ImpScience @ReadingLeagueIA @DDIA13 @NathanielRSwain @sstollar6 x.com/SchoolsCubedLLC @AngieHanlin
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🔥 If someone tells you explicit instruction is “boring,” “mindless lecturing,” or “not engaging,” please share this clip with them.
In just 60 seconds, Anita Archer explains what explicit instruction actually is. It's interactive, intentional, effective, and promotes student success. youtube.com/shorts/g1lOVrx…
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@Quest4Readers This is not true!
We have several UFLI students in our private practices.
You don’t know the research in the trenches.
When it comes out you will be emotionally prepared to consider it.
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@RplusDyslexia It is such a struggle. How do we even ask for clarification or highlight a possible concern when everything is taken as “push back” or “causing dissension”? It’s like they think we’re arguing if we speak!
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While training in a school for #Tier3 last week
We were very careful not to offend.Politics are a huge thing in #RighttoRead
#Readingintervention
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Expert: Literacy screening programs are failing young learners futurity.org/literacy-scree… via @FuturityNews
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@burnsmk1 @EdWeekTeacher @RenLearnUS @DyslexiaIDA @reading_league @LDTonline @ScienceofRead @NCILiteracy @nasponline @CECMembership @DyslexiaFound This was great, thank you!
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If you missed the @EdWeekTeacher webinar on screening for #dyslexia, sponsored by @RenLearnUS, then you can still access the video at event.on24.com/wcc/r/5111580/…
@DyslexiaIDA @reading_league @LDTonline @ScienceofRead @NCILiteracy @nasponline @CECMembership @DyslexiaFound
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