Josh Lawrence

Bridging research and practice to unlock literacy for middle/high school students. Committed to innovative solutions and tackling educational inequities.

[Josh Lawrence @Josh_F_Lawrence]

Excited to share research exploring teacher engagement in hybrid coaching.

Cognitive & Affective Alignment in Teacher Learning
🗓️ April 21 | 🕛 12–1 PM PT
Early findings from NLP + coach rating analysis of 1M+ tokens of teacher talk.
📍Join us in person or on Zoom:

[Josh Lawrence @Josh_F_Lawrence]

We all think vocabulary review matters—
now we know how much.
It matters a LOT. 💥

📄 Estimating the Effect of Structured Vocabulary Review
in Elementary School Journal
w/ Emily Phillips Galloway & Judy Yu-Li Hsu

👉 https://t.co/mnZvOt17Qz
#Literacy #EdResearch #WordGeneration

[Josh Lawrence @Josh_F_Lawrence]

🇨🇦📷 This year at #SSR2025, let’s add a little Canadian flavour to our presentations. Use Canadian spelling (e.g., behaviour, honour, centre) as a gesture of solidarity and respect for Canada’s linguistic identity. Join the movement: #ColourMeSSR

@SSRJournal

[Josh Lawrence @Josh_F_Lawrence]

Excited to share research exploring teacher engagement in hybrid coaching.

Cognitive & Affective Alignment in Teacher Learning
🗓️ April 21 | 🕛 12–1 PM PT
Early findings from NLP + coach rating analysis of 1M+ tokens of teacher talk.
📍Join us in person or on Zoom:

[Josh Lawrence @Josh_F_Lawrence]

Thrilled to see our research on the Science of Reading and disciplinary literacy come to life through the Reading Ways Hub. AI-supported coaching and teacher collaboration are transforming secondary literacy instruction. Explore the Hub and see the impact. 👇

[Reading Ways @readingways]

🚀 There’s a better way to support secondary literacy.

Watch the video 👇 and take the next step:
🔗 District leaders - Book a consultation: https://t.co/5AyEI54Af8
🔗 Coaches & educators - Explore the Hub demo: https://t.co/gX2cPxG8FS
#LiteracyCoaching #disciplinaryliteracy

[Josh Lawrence @Josh_F_Lawrence]

Principals have to delegate—but how do you delegate instructional leadership? If no one is designated to sustain literacy work, change won’t last.

This post breaks down how sustainable coaching structures make the difference.👇 #EdLeadership #CLSD #AdolescentLiteracy

[Reading Ways @readingways]

Sustainable literacy programs do exist for secondary schools! 📖 Our new post shows how a coaching model (SCALE) can turn short-term gains into long-term success​. #Literacy #EdLeadership #CLSD
https://t.co/RVr1YBBFCe

[Josh Lawrence @Josh_F_Lawrence]

Excited to present at @DLL_UCI Digital Learning Lab at UCI on Friday, Oct 18th, 12-1pm (PST)! 🧠📚 I'll discuss vocabulary research, AI tools for literacy coaching, and our latest innovations on the @ReadingWays platform. Looking forward to sharing insights! #Literacy #AI #EdTech

[Josh Lawrence @Josh_F_Lawrence]

🌟 Excited to announce (belatedly) that I’m spending the year as a visiting scholar at the @DLL_UCI Digital Learning Lab, hosted by @markwarschauer at the UC Irvine School of Education! @UCIEducation Looking forward to an inspiring year ahead!

[Josh Lawrence @Josh_F_Lawrence]

Excited to share our new @JChildLang pub by Dr. Yang our newly minted PhD! 🎉 We show that Chinese mothers' use of chengyu (成语) during reading predicts children's vocabulary growth. “耳濡目染” (ears hear, eyes see)—kids absorb language daily! https://t.co/h60HChK1U6

[Dr Elsje van Bergen @drElsje]

Are you at #SSSR2024🇩🇰? Come to @lervag's & my symposium on Friday at 10.30 in the Auditorium on the #GeneEnvironmentInterplay on reading ability!🧬👨‍👩‍👧📚 With @cignae @grandegerman @DKhanolainen @HungryMindLab @MinnaTorppa @hfsunde @farteinask @CaroRowland

[Josh Lawrence @Josh_F_Lawrence]

@margaretmckeow2 Got a ref or example?

[Josh Lawrence @Josh_F_Lawrence]

Proud to be a part of the great team! https://t.co/N2re00tFzk

[Open Implementation @openimplement]

We are proud to be finalists in the Tools Competition. https://t.co/M7vSdAQMFl

[Josh Lawrence @Josh_F_Lawrence]

Congrats to Junyi Yang for turning the focus on child agency in language development. Even when accounting for all control variables, Junyi found that children’s wh-questions predicted their receptive vocabulary growth across one year. https://t.co/3Gy8TDkUs9

[Josh Lawrence @Josh_F_Lawrence]

IES Summer Research Training Institute again this summer at Northwestern University from July 15 – 25, 2024. Reasons it is valuable: meeting great junior researchers, deep engagement, Larry Hedges doing marathon methods teaching! apply now! https://t.co/kultVPpRLJ

[Josh Lawrence @Josh_F_Lawrence]

Finally! Jacy's books are written for instructional leaders and informed and inspire the coaching work at #readingways. They are also well refenced and cogent; they inform how I teach, mentor, and research organizational learning.

[Jacy Ippolito @Jippolito]

Look what just arrived in the mail -- author copies of our new book🤗

Such a joy collaborating with @rita_bean & so grateful for the fabulous editorial team at @guilfordpress!

#coaches #educoaches #instructionalcoaches #edleaders grab your copies here: https://t.co/eZVtPvyMOd

[Josh Lawrence @Josh_F_Lawrence]

https://t.co/ffbaEUO2WK

[Josh Lawrence @Josh_F_Lawrence]

If you are in Oslo in June, join our two-day conference on Social interaction and language learning. We will be celebrating the work of Vibeke Grøver. Organized by Veslemøy Rydland. Speakers include Catherine Snow @TamisLeMondaNYU @HiroYoshikawaNY Paola Uccelli Meredeth Rowe.

[Josh Lawrence @Josh_F_Lawrence]

My collaborator here at UIO asked me... "am searching for new literature on reading and how young students read/make sense of Chat gpt texts (online reading we have more on already)." Thanks for an suggestions!! @markwarschauer

[Reading Ways @readingways]

👩‍🏫🔍 Meet Andrea, a local site leader, and discover how Reading Ways supports her in curating and demonstrating continuous adaptability in leading locally led literacy initiatives.#EducationLeadership #LiteracyInitiatives https://t.co/qRrz9sBZj9

[Josh Lawrence @Josh_F_Lawrence]

Amazing how this model has supported skilled coaching. Proud to be a part of this journey #TeacherLeaders @Jippolito

[Reading Ways @readingways]

📚 Introducing our latest article on bridging the gap between research and classroom practices. Discover the journey from teacher autonomy to collaborative learning, empowered by innovative models and technology. 🏫💻 #EdTech #TeacherEmpowerment https://t.co/bqEilj9fiW

[Josh Lawrence @Josh_F_Lawrence]

Great collaborators are putting together a Special Issue on Child-Centred AI.
https://t.co/SusuZKMOU0 @markwarschauer