I wrote about the importance of students being leaders of their own learning in October. At the time of that writing, I kept thinking about the parallel between students as leaders of their own learning and teachers as leaders of their own learning. And it’s pretty exciting to watch teachers take hold of that learning. … [Read more…]
Our students will give us what we expect, every time. Well… kind of. Maintaining high expectations for our students (or our children, or employees, or ourselves…) is not rocket science, but it is vitally important. Maintaining high expectations does not magically create high quality results, either. We can carry those high expectations, but the transfer … [Read more…]
The Science of Reading The Science of Reading is gaining momentum, thanks in large part to folks like APM journalist Emily Hanford. The funny thing is, it’s not a new concept; knowledge about the Science of Reading has been around for upwards of five decades. According to The Science of Reading, A Defining Movement, “The … [Read more…]
I did not intend for this blog to be a confessional, yet I feel compelled to confess to yet another of my many missteps in the classroom, this time around spelling instruction. In the January 5, 2021 Psychology Today article “Why Spelling Instruction Should Be Hot in 2021,” J. Richard Gentry highlights the current research … [Read more…]