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We're a team of local leaders and advocates working toward a high-quality education for all kids, regardless of their address.

[Marc Porter Magee 🎓 @marcportermagee]

“primary parent smartphone screen time was significantly associated with slower receptive vocabulary growth”

Parents are scrolling on their phones rather than talking to their kids

[Marc Porter Magee 🎓 @marcportermagee]

We need this grade by grade breakdown for every major city

[Families Empowered @FamsEmpowered]

We had an inspiring two days in #AustinTX hearing from @VELAorg innovators who believe in people & are building the schooling options #parents want. #indieeducation :the future is now @yes_everykid @FiftyCAN

[Marc Porter Magee 🎓 @marcportermagee]

WSJ: “The Baby Bust Is Forcing a Reckoning at Public Schools”

[50CAN @FiftyCAN]

Only TWO days left! The deadline to submit your application to be part of the next cohort of National Voices fellows is Friday, 10/23.

Being a National Voices fellow means you will have the opportunity to learn from and build relationships with some of the leading education advocates from across the country.

If you are ready to take the next step in your education advocacy journey, be sure to complete an application before the end of the week.

[Alexander Russo @alexanderrusso]

Parents are going to be key here, since they were such a force behind S1.

[Marc Porter Magee 🎓 @marcportermagee]

“DI is based on a deeply held conviction that if a child didn’t learn, it was because the teacher (or curriculum) didn’t teach them properly”

[Robert Pondiscio @rpondiscio]

What if the teaching profession's hostility to scripted instruction has come at an enormous cost to children, particularly those who need it the most? Season 2 of "Sold a Story" from @ehanford asks questions we'd prefer to avoid. My review:

https://t.co/DIpkLzqOv3

[Emily Hanford @ehanford]

If you're planning to talk about Sold a Story with your colleagues or friends, you can try out a draft version of our new discussion guides. Give us feedback. We're still working on them. Final version will be out with Ep 7. https://t.co/OarCBUQb4D

[Emily Hanford @ehanford]

Episode 2 of Sold a Story Season 2
https://t.co/F76d5Bs95Q
The Remedy is Always Teaching

[50CAN @FiftyCAN]

@lizcohen12 @HKorbey @ChadAldeman Watch the full reaction here: https://t.co/QJ7L0BLATP

[50CAN @FiftyCAN]

Watch as VP of Policy @lizcohen12 joins @HKorbey and @ChadAldeman on the Bell Ringer podcast to react to and break down the new episodes of Sold a Story, an investigative podcast that takes on how kids learn and what makes good teaching effective.

[missy purcell @MissyPurcell]

Sold a Story Season 1 felt like a reckoning over how we teach reading. But the conversation is much bigger. It’s about how we teach, period.

“If the student hasn’t learned, the teacher hasn’t taught.” — Zig Engelmann

Season 2 is here! 🎧

https://t.co/lGR4gTXBGy

[Marc Porter Magee 🎓 @marcportermagee]

Ok. You have watched the first episode of Sold a Story Season 2

Now it’s time to watch the unofficial reaction podcast!

[Robert Pondiscio @rpondiscio]

The new season of @ehanford 's "Sold a Story" goes live today. The first season showed how teachers had been misled about reading instruction. Season two poses an even harder challenge. My review:

https://t.co/DIpkLzqOv3

[Emily Hanford @ehanford]

Sold a Story Season 2 is out. https://t.co/JpHNMFPGvK
You can hear episodes 1 and 2 today.
Then it's one episode a week, on Thursdays, through Nov 19.

[Andrew Rotherham @arotherham]

The Science of Reading has a gym membership problem. Link in reply. @eduwonk @bellwetherorg

[Emily Hanford @ehanford]

You can listen to the first two episodes of Sold a Story Season 2 today.
We also have things for you to WATCH! https://t.co/MX66Yx1NzS
What is Direct Instruction?

[Marc Porter Magee 🎓 @marcportermagee]

Not sure what we were expecting to happen at scale but its important to resist throwing away reforms that don't transform outcomes overnight

"Modest but gradually emerging improvements" is how you make education better

[Emily Hanford @ehanford]

Episode 1 of Sold a Story, Season 2: https://t.co/KeTDmq01e4
It's Not Just Reading