Shawna Veit

@XpatEducator Rosenshine rocks.

🎁 FREE GIFT: FULL ROSENSHINE CPD PACK! To celebrate 50 consecutive weeks of ⚗️DistillED, I’ve put together something quite cool… Over the past year, Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction has been one of the most requested topics from teachers and school leaders. So I’ve put together a complete, ready-to-run CPD pack to help schools explore and implement all 10 principles. The download includes: → 10 CPD PowerPoints (ready for 30–45 min sessions) → 10 strategy checklists (practical classroom actions) → 10 planning templates (put principles into action ) → Covers all 10 of Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction Everything you need to run ten focused CPD sessions — one for each principle. 👉 REPOST and comment ROSENSHINE and I’ll DM you the link. Cheers! ⏰ Available until Sunday 22 March!

How do you know if your students have developed handwriting fluency? Take our free eLearning module to learn about two assessments designed to determine if your students can quickly retrieve letters from memory and write them legibly: irrc.education.uiowa.edu/lifter

🚨 New episode with @sarahpowellphd is live! We talk about what the Science of Math movement is, why it’s gained momentum, and what a statement by the NCSM gets wrong about the Science of Math. Episode links below ⬇️

I have just pushed live a MASSIVE update of my Mr Barton Maths website - all 100% free. If you find it useful, please help spread the word by sharing this post 🙏

@S_Oberle A colleague recommended this book. It helps explain some generational differences. We often hear about sticking to contract hours and a healthy work life balance. They are not wrong so, how do we approach the goal of growing great teachers? a.co/d/0eW2ye6N

If you work with teacher candidates, student teachers, whatever we are calling them these days…tell them they need to take initiative in the classroom and not just do the bare minimum. We are seeing a terrible lack of ambition and work ethic in these future teachers.

@XpatEducator I love your work and appreciate the free gift.

🎁 Just published: Free Christmas Gift! ⚗️ DistillED Playbook → 30 page, printable A4 booklet → 6 high-impact teaching strategies → Strategy checklists → QR codes to planning resources → Built from the most-read DistillED posts this year. If you want a copy, comment below and I’ll DM you the PDF. ⏰ Free until Boxing Day.

@nsachdeva2019 @olicav Is anyone else picturing multi-step equations? What a game changer. The sheer number of extra repetitions is an instant win for students.

Watch this expert teaching in action. By Fred Jones! Thanks to @olicav for sharing youtu.be/MInPwzg6TiQ?si…

@MmeLockhartLDS IRRC @IAReading has put out the CLIFTER and LIFTER tools for cursive and print. They are free, well designed, and teacher friendly. irrc.education.uiowa.edu/lifter

Special Attraction: A Premiere of the latest Chalk & Talk with Anna Stokke! Join Us for researchED Atlantic Canada (Sat Oct 25/25). Yes, that's Anita Archer, one of the world's leading researchers on #explicitinstruction Ty @rastokke for this special episode! #cdned

@S_Oberle @researchED_US Is there a date for 2026 in NYC?

Check out the speaker list and grab your ticket for @researchED_US NYC here: eventbrite.com/o/researched-a…

@MrZachG Or try to solve a problem for teachers with a strategy that is good for kids. Buy in is easier when everyone wins.

A lot of leadership meetings revolve around “how do we get their buy-in?” To a degree, it is about persuasion, but if you’re always selling, you’re probably not leading. At some point, what is right, and what is clear, and what is best for kids, has to outweigh 100% consensus.

Math Fact Intervention Resource update (M.I.N.D. 2.0 - Facts on Fire). I have been collaborating with teachers this last year in an effort to provide a new set of resources that are designed to provide some fact fluency activities that are a little easier to implement and sustain across the school year (i.e., more teacher friendly). Three major adaptations were made. First, we added more skills and worked hard to bolster our Kindergarten and 1st grade resources. Second, we incorporated small sets with Taped Problems to ensure accurate responding and merged this with a systematic interleaving for the retrieval practice as the problem sets get larger. Lastly, student workbooks consisting of anywhere between 20-45 daily lessons can be printed off and powerpoint slide decks are provided to guide each lesson. It is our hope that this will provide teachers with daily practice activities that will range from 5-8 min that will take little to no prep time after the workbooks are printed and the slide decks are downloaded. While it may take a few days to get the hang of, both teachers and students get the routine down quickly and appreciate the structure and predictability. As always, all materials are free. I will be adding to the site quite regularly as we get a few of the links completed that are under construction and get the old website materials on the new site. Please check out the Media section where there are a variety of resources if you are interested in the why and how's of the program including a podcast interview with @rastokke Chalk & Talk and trainings from the PaTTan Virtual Math Conference earlier this summer. Lastly, the amazing and talented @StamStam193 who was kind enough to pilot and record the core intervention activities of the program with her classroom (check it out at the bottom of the Facts on Fire page). Enjoy! brianponcy.wixsite.com/.../m-i-n-d-2-…

📚 GIVEAWAY TIME! 📚 The Scaffolding Effect by @MrsBallAP & @lamb_heart_tea is out now! Full of practical ways to support every student. Want a free copy? All you have to do is: ✅ Follow us 🔁 RT this post The winner will be announced on Friday, 1st August, at 2pm. Good luck!

@RplusDyslexia @jennivanrees Is there an extension for writing numbers?

@jennivanrees irrc.education.uiowa.edu/blog/2024/07/n… This is excellent! Similar to the way we do it.

Explicitly teaching handwriting is so important in the early years. Want some support in making that happen? Check out this free resource to help with sounds, explicit verbal pathways of each letter and printing practice. onlit.org/resource/print… (Links to articles to follow.)

@MissCole279 @MsLECHistory @TeachLikeAChamp @WALKTHRUs_5 @Steplab_co I'd love a copy, your project sounds fantastic! shawna.veit@oakland.k12.mi.us

@MsLECHistory @TeachLikeAChamp @WALKTHRUs_5 @Steplab_co Of course. Just let me know your email address. 😊

Spent the day finalising our T&L Playbook for next year. Core techniques are a mix of @TeachLikeAChamp and @WALKTHRUs_5 strategies. The playbook details the what, how, when and why of each, with videos from @Steplab_co for teachers to explore in labs and with their coaches. 🤓

@researchED_US @tetheredtoed1 @4ScienceofMath @brian_poncy @amandavande1 @pjr146 @MrZachG @sharemath @burnsmk1 @sarahpowellphd Can it access articles behind paywalls? Chat GPT will create fake citations and then admit when pressed that it cannot access most academic journals.

@tetheredtoed1 @4ScienceofMath @brian_poncy @amandavande1 @pjr146 @MrZachG @sharemath @burnsmk1 @sarahpowellphd ask elicit.com

@4ScienceofMath peeps: Researching the Q "is math fact retention in Gr 1-3 better when students write the numerals on paper vs using apps?" Any papers specific to this you know of? @brian_poncy @amandavande1 @pjr146 @MrZachG @sharemath @burnsmk1 @sarahpowellphd @researchED_US

@MmeLockhartLDSB Here is the updated scope and sequence with criteria for the M.I.N.D. 2.0 which will be released in August. drive.google.com/file/d/129PE4U…

📣 Attention Pre-Service Teachers! Get ahead this summer with our free, virtual Math Conference: tinyurl.com/PaMathConf Spread the word! @statesystem @CheyneyUniv @CUP_Education @ESUniversity @ESUCollegeofEd @EdinboroSped @IUPedu @KutztownU @SecEdKU @LockHavenUniv @mansfieldu

Such a great event & inspiring, lovely colleagues! Go to this one!