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Laura Stewart

Know Your Students

October 20, 2024 by megankruse

I’m sitting in the Charolotte International Airport as I write this (why does it make me feel important to write that?!).  I am processing two incredible days of learning, alongside incredible educators, from the 8th Annual Conference of The Reading League. Last week, I had written that I predicted many presenters would mention Scarborough’s Reading … [Read more…]

Posted in: Assessments and data, 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: Amy Numedahl, Barbara Foorman, Benita A. Blachman, Christy Austin, Donell Pons, Dr. Jan Hasbrouck, Elizabeth Norton, Ending the Reading Wars, George Couros, Holly Lane, Jamey Peavler, Jamie Allerdice, John Maxwell, Kara Veach, Kareem Weaver, Kristen Wynn, Kymyona Burk, Laura Stewart, Lindsay Kemeny, Linnea Ehri, Lisa Williams, Margaret Goldberg, Melissa Orkin, Nancy Young, Papae Wymore, Reading Rockets, Rhonda Nelson, Right to Read Project, Scarborough's rope, science of learning, science of reading, simple view of reading, Stacy Hurst, Stephanie Edgren, Stephanie Stollar, Teaching Reading is Rocket Science, The Reading League Conference, Tier 1, total participation techniques, Zaretta Hammond

Keeping Myself in Check

December 5, 2022 by megankruse

The Learning Journey As I’ve written before, I’ve dedicated much of the last four years of my life to learning about the Science of Reading.  Four years in, I fully recognize that there is much, much more to learn – from the body of research that currently exists, and from the body of research that … [Read more…]

Posted in: Facilitating improvements in instruction and student learning, Personal Learning, Professional learning for continuous improvement, Research, Uncategorized Tagged: Amplify Science of Reading Podcast, Brené Brown, Christopher Peak, David Kilpatrick, David Liben, Donell Pons, Dr. Anita Archer, Dr. Jan Hasbrouck, Dr. Julie Washington, Emily Hanford, Fountas and PInnell, Hechinger Report, Holiday Inn, idolize, Jenny Steffensmeier, Justin Love, Katie Dailey, Lance Carpenter, Laura Stewart, Lindsay Kemeny, Louisa Moats, Lucy Calkins, Maren Morris, Margaret Goldberg, Maria Murray, Marie Clay, Mark Seidenberg, Meredith Liben, Merriam Webster dictionary, Michael Saleta, Nashville, Natalie Wexler, Ron Oates, science of reading, Sold a Story, Stacy Hurst, starstruck, Susan Lambert, Taylor Tuke, Timothy Shanahan, Todd Collins, Tracy Richardson

Taking Action

October 30, 2022 by megankruse

Literacy Advocates Take Action Emily Hanford has done it again.  She and colleague, Christopher Peak, have poured blood, sweat, and tears into the podcast, Sold a Story, that reveals, once again, the cause of the literacy crisis in America.  Hanford is the reason that I, and so many others, have shifted our way of thinking … [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: At a Loss for Words, brain, Bruce McCandliss, Christopher Peak, Corrine Adams, Corrine Swigart, Debra McClurg, Decoding Dyslexia Iowa, Dr. Kelli Sandman Hurley, dyslexia, Emily Hanford, Flannery Wheeler, FMCSD, Forbes, Hard Words, Kay Petersen, Kim Mendez, Laura Stewart, LeDerick Horne, literacy instruction, Maria Murray, Mary Hellige, Natalie Wexler, Nina Lorimor-Easley, Pat Nolte, Reed Haeger, science of reading, Sold a Story, Sue Haeger, Susan Lambert, The Knowledge Gap, The Reading League, The Writing Revolution, Wendy Boeding, What the Words Say, Zach Russell

Craving Critical Thinking

July 10, 2022 by megankruse

This has been one busy summer so far, and we’ve only just reached the halfway mark!  In all of this business, I’ve taken an unplanned three-week hiatus from writing.  The blog hasn’t been far from my mind by any means, I just haven’t set aside the time to finish this post that was started three … [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, Uncategorized Tagged: Andrew Schaefer, Beside the Point, Brené Brown, Carol Tolman, Chuck Vandenberg, critical thinking, David Kilpatrick, Deb Glaser, Dr. Anita Archer, Dr. Jan Hasbrouck, Elsa Cardenas-Hagan, Emmett Kruse, epistemology, FMCSD Construction Team, Hayden Wolfe, Joan Sedita, Landes Williams, Laura Stewart, Lindsay Kemeny, Louisa Moats, Lyn Stone, Maria Murray, Nancy Hennessy, Pam Kastner, PaTTAN Literacy Symposium, Pen City Current, Pennsylvania, political thinking, science of reading, SkillsUSA, Tracey White-Weeden, YouTube

Productive Struggle

March 6, 2022 by megankruse

Just last week, I referenced my frustration with educators who focus on what their students cannot do, rather than what they can do.  In the last several days, I came to the realization that I may be doing the very same thing when thinking about educators:  I can fall in the trap of focusing on … [Read more…]

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Weathering the Storms

November 7, 2021 by megankruse

Experiments Several years ago, when I was teaching 6th grade, I began experimenting with standards-based grading.  I was actually running two experiments simultaneously:  by myself in my 6th grade reading classes, and with my 6th grade team in our English classes (yep, we identified reading and English as two separate classes – uggghhh!), under the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Collaborative culture, Facilitating improvements in instruction and student learning, Personal Learning, Professional learning for continuous improvement, Uncategorized Tagged: Arthur Ashe, challenges, Chuck Vandenberg, Covid, Eric Jensen, Laura Stewart, Michael Fullan, Motion Leadership, Pen City Current, pressure and support, Solution Tree, standards based grading, The Reading League, Tracy Weeden

The Stories We Tell

October 3, 2021 by megankruse

Fort Madison Community School District is incredibly fortunate to have partnered with Four Oaks, an Iowa organization “…committed to helping children and families through their struggles…”  The support that we receive from Four Oaks includes receiving professional development around trauma-informed care.  We have a group of “trauma champions” that receive more intensive training, sharing our … [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, Uncategorized Tagged: FMCSD, Four Oaks, George Couros, Jon Gordon, Laura Stewart, lifelong learning, Pam Kastner, Paulo Coelho, positive thinking, self-reflection, Tena Desae, The Reading League, things I can control, trauma informed leadership

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