Ms. Sam

When you combine explicit instruction with high expectations and classroom rules. Don't take it from me. Take it from the kids. 😊

@oliviajune82 @tetheredtoed1 @AJPettway1 @helenrey This is pretty cool! :)

A friend of a friend made this (so I will not be offended if it's not useful) but tagging some secondary science teachers @SciInTheMaking @tetheredtoed1 @AJPettway1 @helenrey periodictable.tech

@VinceBoley @0Beanie05923291 😂 Can't speak for everyone but I am barely hanging on! Just taking it a day at a time.

@0Beanie05923291 Humbled to be included with this list.

In my work, I often have the pleasure of meeting excellent teachers who are passionate about improving their craft to benefit their students. The one thing these teachers tend to have in common is that their classrooms are generally very low tech. These teachers tend to have the best test scores in their buildings and they regularly get positive feedback from their students about the manner of instruction. Good teaching isn’t “magic” and it doesn’t require the latest technology or app. There is a method. It’s not new and it’s not flashy, but it’s effective and can be done by anyone willing to take the time and effort to learn it. Just ask these teachers: @SciInTheMaking @StamStam193 @SoLInTheWild @smorrisey @dailystem @VinceBoley @AmberBHaven

@0Beanie05923291 And I will not go back! Best decision I made this year!

@adamboxer1 It's a great program Adam! I can tell your team put a lot of thought into it. I will keep you updated!

@SciInTheMaking 💪💪 Keep me posted 📫

Either Edutwitter doesn't like this blog, or the post has been nerfed by the algorithm, but a v small fraction of its reads have been from twitter. If you enjoyed it, please do share 🙏🙏🙏

@adamboxer1 I'm halfway through the mini whiteboard one!

@SciInTheMaking Both do require structure, but one much easier than the other ime! Have you managed to find time to do our course yet??

Today I got to put what I learned into practice during a FASE Reading lesson. My most reluctant reader was smiling from ear to ear and asking to read as he experienced success. When he read the word ‘ferocious’, he was absolutely beaming!

@0Beanie05923291 @TeachLikeAChamp @Doug_Lemov I WISH I WAS THERE.

I just finished writing my reflections on last week’s @TeachLikeAChamp workshop on the SoR in Memphis. @Doug_Lemov and team do an incredible job and somehow manage to squeeze a week’s worth of information into two short days. Truly excellent and valuable PD!

Writing improves when it’s built systematically from the sentence level up. Start with kernel sentences. Expand them using content knowledge. Then organize those ideas into paragraphs. When Ss have something to say and a structure for saying it, the quality of writing improves.

Podcast w @AmberBHaven! One of the many reasons she is featured in my book #PowerfulClassrooms is how she incorporates SoL. #PowerfulTeaching 👇

Appears to be under the impression that public high schools in America teach 16th century English literature. Or literature at all. (One reason they don’t is that for every thing people “should know” there’s some guy saying schools gotta start doing it.) Schools should make kids read books. They should teach science math history economics languages art and music really well (they don’t currently). That’s plenty. Every parent in America should be teaching how credit cards work.

🧵Students don’t struggle with writing because they need to practice writing more essays. Many struggle because they don’t yet know enough about the topic to write substantively about it and were never explicitly taught the sentence-level building blocks of strong writing. 1/4

The student who can't write a coherent paragraph about photosynthesis doesn't have a "paragraph structure" problem; they have a photosynthesis problem.🧵⤵️

@LeslieLaud @AmmarMerhbi I see. So the difference between oral expansion (SRSD) and kernel expansion (TWR) is that one is done orally and the other is written?

@SciInTheMaking @AmmarMerhbi We begin with oral sentence expansion. We work on sentences in the context of short writes - paragraph. Sentence combining etc. There’s no meaningful way to teach sentences in isolation. Doesn’t transfer.

The Writing Revolution. That's it. That's the tweet.

@Mrpchemistry Exactly! CER itself is not enough!

@SciInTheMaking Yes and really helps with CER.

@skillset114 You are preaching to the choir.

@Suchmo83 Agreed.

@SciInTheMaking I like The Writing Revolution, but I think it is primarily useful as a method of getting pupils to use writing to support their grasp of academic subjects rather than as a writing curriculum in itself (i.e. it supplements, rather than constitutes, effective writing instruction).

@smarterparrot This is great for someone that knows how to write simple sentences already! Thanks for sharing.

@SciInTheMaking These are the 5 principles of good writing that I found could take a novice writer to a pretty good one in one semester of college composition (I'm a big fan of Judith Hochman's, btw -- went to her two-week class at one point) scienceofhumanwriting.substack.com/p/5-principles…