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Stop believing that a purchase will solve the problem.
Stop believing the marketers have the answers.
There is no magic pill. Wise up. ⬇️
🚨New paper released today:
10 Common SEN Mis(Interventions)—An Evidence Summary
https://steplab.co/news/common-sen-mis-interventions-an-evidence-summary/6a0cc0325a4b9b00017ae3ed/
Supporting students with Special Educational Needs (SEN) is a vital and growing challenge for schools. But it’s not straightforward. Learning is complex, marketing claims
Having done this work for years, I agree, especially for 3rd grade and up. It’s a big waste of time. Groups are supposed to be flexible based on skill deficits/need, so let’s get started and see where we go! ⬇️
Unpopular opinion: We would get better reading outcomes by skipping fall benchmark assessments for first graders and up. Here me out. Most school districts get benchmark testing all wrong. The assessment team and the reading interventionists are one and the same. So students
“But for me, I felt like I, the teacher, wasn’t the most important resource in the room, my PPT was.”
I would love to say goodbye to Powerpoints.
https://open.substack.com/pub/joel120193/p/goodbyepptx-why-ive-abandoned-powerpoint?r=4r7sq2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
I love this!
Let’s honor the people doing the work instead of the ones just talking about it. ⬇️
SLP clinic today:
Practiced adjective elaboration in sentences to expand descriptive language- client used ocean blue, midnight blue, sky blue to describe the shirts in the pics.
Make sure to model complex sentences:
The man wearing a midnight blue shirt is holding a mirror.
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👇 Agree or disagree?
Zaretta Hammond dropping another 🔥 perspective on instruction and student thinking.
Are we helping students become stronger thinkers or removing too much of the productive struggle?
#ScienceOfReading #ZarettaHammond
👇 Thoughts?
@Ready4rigor
If Students Aren’t Doing the Thinking, They Aren’t Learning | Zaretta Hammond
What did Assistant Superintendent Lynn Gaffney have to say? 👀🎙️
“If you have more than 3 priorities, you have none.”
Too many initiatives.
Too many priorities.
Too many things being pushed at once.
@FaithBorkowsky @LearnLead_ @researchED1
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