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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

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

November 20, 2022 by megankruse

In the spirit of this Thanksgiving week, this post is dedicated to those things for which I am presently most grateful for.  Each picture included in the post is worth a thousand words… to me, anyway, as they represent my immense gratitude!  I am stealing George Couros’s weekly email format:  I will be writing about … [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: 3 ELA shifts, Achieve the Core, ALL Block, Becky Morey, cancer, Christopher Peak, curriculum adoption, Dala Wolfe, EdReports, el education, Emily Hanford, FMCSD, George Couros, Ingrid Brownlee, Jennifer Helling, Jenny Herriman, Katelyn Bowen, Kathy Randloph, Kim Fullenkamp, Margaret Goldberg, Mark Bunt, Mary Hellige, melanoma, Melissa & Lori, modules, Mohammed Milhem MD, Randy Sissel, Right to Read Project, Ross Haeger, Shalisse Johnstun, Shana Jannusch, Sold a Story, Stories of Human Rights, Sue Haeger, Suzan Menke

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

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