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Both-And

September 24, 2023 by megankruse Leave a Comment

In my work as an instructional coach, I have the great fortune of working with many teacher teams across many grade levels.  This allows for a birds-eye view of our district happenings, where I tend to train my eyes on literacy instruction. A common theme among teacher teams, related to literacy or any other content … [Read more…]

Posted in: Facilitating improvements in instruction and student learning, Personal Learning, Professional learning for continuous improvement, Student learning and the profession, Teacher Leader Model Standards, Uncategorized Tagged: Donell Pons, Dr. Anita Archer, FMCSD, George Couros, Lindsay Kemeny, Literacy Talks, Matt Burns, Reading Horizons, reading levels, relationships, Stacy Hurst, University of Florida

Moving Cheese

September 3, 2023 by megankruse

If you haven’t read Who Moved My Cheese, by Spencer Johnson, M.D., I highly recommend it.  It’s short, it’s lessons apply to both personal and work-related situations, and the advice is timeless.  The gist is quite simple:  the unexpected can happen to us at anytime.  It (an unexpected change) occurs regularly at home, at work, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Assessments and data, Collaborative culture, Facilitating improvements in instruction and student learning, Personal Learning, Professional learning for continuous improvement, Teacher Leader Model Standards, Uncategorized Tagged: Atlas of the Heart, Ben Steffensmeier, Brené Brown, change, Fort Madison Community School District, George Couros, instructional coaching, Martin Luther King, PLC, Spencer Johnson M.D., West Point, West Point Sweet Corn Festival, Who Moved My Cheese

Looking for the Easy Button

August 8, 2023 by megankruse

Summer always seems to go too fast and this summer is certainly no exception.  My thoughts and actions have been completely consumed by our house remodel, which is still underway.  We began in June and I was naive enough to think that we would be finished by the time I returned to school in August.  … [Read more…]

Posted in: Collaborative culture, Facilitating improvements in instruction and student learning, Personal Learning, Professional learning for continuous improvement, Teacher Leader Model Standards, Uncategorized Tagged: Bill Kruse, Clement Contracting, collaboration, Dr. Anita Archer, Dr. Jan Hasbrouck, Easy button, EDView360, house remodel, Iowa Science of Reading Summit, Isaac Steffensmeier, LGH Custom Works, lifelong learning, Louisa Moats, Melissa & Lori Love Literacy, Nancy Hennessy, Ross Haeger, sanding, science of reading, science of teaching, staining, Stan Schmidt, Turn 2 Workshop

A Formula for Reading Success

August 2, 2023 by megankruse

The EDVIEW360 podcast from Voyager Sopris recently released a stellar episode featuring two of education’s greats:  Dr. Anita Archer and Dr. Louisa Moats.  The world is a better place because of these two individuals.  Their work has resulted in and will continue to result in high levels of learning for teachers and students everywhere.  I … [Read more…]

Posted in: Collaborative culture, Facilitating improvements in instruction and student learning, Personal Learning, Professional learning for continuous improvement, Research, Student learning and the profession, Teacher Leader Model Standards, Uncategorized Tagged: Dr. Anita Archer, Dr. Julie Washington, EDView360, explicit instruction, hinge point, Iowa Science of Reading Summit, John Hattie, Louisa Moats, multi-tiered systems of support, Pam Austin, Philip B. Gough, science of learning, science of reading, science of teaching, simple view of reading, Stephanie Stollar, system, The Mythical Silver Bullet, The Simple View of Effective Reading Instruction, Visible Learning, William E. Tunmer

Buzzin’ Like a Bee in ’23

July 16, 2023 by megankruse

What a whirlwind of a week… or three!  As I write today, I’m sitting in the Atlanta airport, buzzin’ like a bee from an AMAZING four days at the 2023 Open Up Resources HIVE conference!  There is so much learning to process; I’m thankful for several hours in the airport to do just that. This … [Read more…]

Posted in: Collaborative culture, Facilitating improvements in instruction and student learning, Outreach and collaboration with families and community, Personal Learning, Professional learning for continuous improvement, Research, Student learning and the profession, Teacher Leader Model Standards, Uncategorized Tagged: Brooke Powers, Cassie Leiby, Cathy Dickson, el education, Esmeralda Rivera, HIVE Conference, Julie Eckhardt, Justin Endicott, Justin Payne, Morgan Stipe, Open Up Resources

Staying Committed

June 25, 2023 by megankruse

When I began writing this blog in January of 2021, I outlined my goals for the blog which are as follows:  Document my learning journey as a teacher, coach, and student  Improve my writing craft through reflection  Act as a producer rather than a consumer  Push my thinking  Connect with others Two and a half … [Read more…]

Posted in: Collaborative culture, Facilitating improvements in instruction and student learning, Personal Learning, Professional learning for continuous improvement, Student learning and the profession, Teacher Leader Model Standards, Uncategorized Tagged: 4th Annual Kruse Family Ride, Andrea Setmeyer, Clement Contracting, el education, fears, George Couros, goals, HIVE Conference, Iowa Reading League, Isaac Steffensmeier, Jack Dailey, Jennifer Lamm, Judith Hochman, Julie Eckhardt, Kara Veach, Lisa Williams, Louie's Lakeside Bistro & BBQ, Natalie Wexler, Open Up Resources, Papae Wymore, Rathbun Lake, running, Southeast Polk Community School District, Stephanie Edgren, summer learning, The Reading League, The Writing Revolution, William Penn University

Kicking-Off the Summer Learning Season

June 11, 2023 by megankruse

The summer learning season kicked off in beautiful fashion this past week.  On the very first two days of summer break, the Guiding Coalition members from each building in Fort Madison Community School District spent two days assessing our data, prioritizing areas of concern, and developing a targeted action plan for the upcoming 23-24 school … [Read more…]

Posted in: Assessments and data, Collaborative culture, Facilitating improvements in instruction and student learning, Professional learning for continuous improvement, Research, Student learning and the profession, Teacher Leader Model Standards, Uncategorized Tagged: Amy Thacher, Area Education Agency, Carol Tolman, data, Dr. Stanislas Dehaene, dyslexia, FMCSD, four-part processing model, guiding coalition, Jennifer Lamm, Joan Sedita, Kara Veach, Lisa Williams, Marie Kondo, Papae Wymore, phonemic awareness, Reading in the Brain, reading wars, science of reading, Stephanie Edgren, Stephanie Stollar, The Reading League, The Writing Rope

The Shrubbery of Instruction

May 14, 2023 by megankruse

On Saturday, I was on a mission.  I was bound and determined to trim the shrubs that adorn the front of our house.   This is an annual task, one that was skipped last year, and I was committed to making sure that didn’t happen again. I approached the job with little to no plan.  I … [Read more…]

Posted in: Assessments and data, Collaborative culture, Facilitating improvements in instruction and student learning, Personal Learning, Professional learning for continuous improvement, Student learning and the profession, Teacher Leader Model Standards, Uncategorized Tagged: analogy, Black and Decker, bowling, collaboration, data, Elton Kruse, Emmett Kruse, evidence-based instruction, intentional planning, Madelyn Swigart, multiple means of action & expression, multiple means of engagement, multiple means of representation, Owen Kruse, progress monitoring, results, Shelley Moore, shrubbery, the 7-10 split, Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3, Universal Design for Learning

Language of Instruction

April 30, 2023 by megankruse

Words matter.  Routines and procedures matter.  The more we can simplify each in our educational systems, the more likely we are to reach high levels of success. At the risk of sounding like I desire robotic teaching, where we all do the exact same thing, I’m going to make the following statement:  I think we … [Read more…]

Posted in: Collaborative culture, Facilitating improvements in instruction and student learning, Personal Learning, Professional learning for continuous improvement, Research, Student learning and the profession, Teacher Leader Model Standards, Uncategorized Tagged: acronyms, cognitive capacity, cognitive energy, cognitive load theory, common language, curriculum matters, Dr. Anita Archer, Dylan Wiliam, el education, EL Module topics, FMCSD, Forbes, foundational reading skills, foundational skills block, high-quality curriculum, Module lessons, modules, Natalie Wexler, proficiency, protocols, staircase of complexity, Student Achievement Partners, systematic and explicit instruction

Reading by the Numbers

April 23, 2023 by megankruse

100% This post was 100% inspired by the three literacy leaders I affectionately call “The Trifecta,”  Stacy Hurst, Lindsay Kemeny, and Donell Pons, hosts of Reading Horizons’ Literacy Talks podcast.  In Episode 6 of Season 3, Reading:  The Numbers Help Tell the Stories, The Trifecta focuses on the irony of how many numbers are involved … [Read more…]

Posted in: Assessments and data, Facilitating improvements in instruction and student learning, Outreach and collaboration with families and community, Personal Learning, Professional learning for continuous improvement, Research, Student learning and the profession, Teacher Leader Model Standards, Uncategorized Tagged: 1, 100, 15, 18, 2, 200, 26, 3, 44, 52, 95, Angie Hanlin, Brita Oyen, Donell Pons, dyslexia, early childhood, George Couros, GPAEA, graphemes, intervention, it takes a village, Jason Kennedy, Jennifer Lamm, LETRS, Lindsay Kemeny, Literacy Talks, Louisa Moats, Mme Lockhart, numbers, one, phonemes, phonemic awareness, predictive indicators, preschool, Reading Horizons, Reading Rockets, Solution Tree, Stacy Hurst, systematic and explicit instruction, Teaching Reading is Rocket Science, the trifecta, Tier 1, tiers
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