Karin Foster

Educator, consultant, passionate advocate of literacy for all students

[Karin Foster @KfosterKarin]

Some excellent tips here as we work to support our emerging multilingual students: Ten Strategies for Teaching English-Language Learners Online https://t.co/qGUavesluk via @educationweek

[Karin Foster @KfosterKarin]

@ctovani I spent the day in Puerto Backyardo today!

[Karin Foster @KfosterKarin]

We need to be talking about this with our school leaders...

[Karen Vaites @karenvaites]

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I noted this parent activism, and predicted its growth, soon after. See #6:

#IDA19 #ida2019 #DyslexiaCon19 #ELAchat @ehanford
https://t.co/2HRUOuZ8Nw

[Karin Foster @KfosterKarin]

Awesome article from Brian Kingsley to make literacy innovation opportunity of 2019! https://t.co/8O54ibUzot

[Karin Foster @KfosterKarin]

Good for these parents! It is time that we stop accepting that almost 50% of children are not reading proficiently by nine. We don't have to accept this!

[Karen Vaites @karenvaites]

WOW:

118 pen 🔥 letter to school board:

Given our District’s reading screen results, MAP results, & drop in rankings, our Literacy Coach should be acknowledging our Lucy Calkins’ curriculum is ineffective, not devising ways to “better utilize” it.

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https://t.co/VBzNxx09pV

[Karen Vaites @karenvaites]

WOW:

118 pen 🔥 letter to school board:

Given our District’s reading screen results, MAP results, & drop in rankings, our Literacy Coach should be acknowledging our Lucy Calkins’ curriculum is ineffective, not devising ways to “better utilize” it.

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https://t.co/VBzNxx09pV

[Karin Foster @KfosterKarin]

Unfortunately, we see a lot of shrinkwrap...

[Education First @ed1stconsulting]

Eric Hirsch @Edreports: Materials alone aren’t enough if they stay in shrink wrap and aren’t paired with aligned PD. #MaterialsMatterNM

[Karin Foster @KfosterKarin]

There Is a Right Way to Teach Reading, and Mississippi Knows It https://t.co/ZktVpLg6AE We need to pay attention to the lessons Mississippi has learned for ALL of our students.

[Karin Foster @KfosterKarin]

@ReadingShanahan Curious about your thoughts regarding NCTE's position statement...
https://t.co/tl5jZJfHaf

[Karin Foster @KfosterKarin]

Love the work this district is doing! https://t.co/jGDeDgQa9d

[Karin Foster @KfosterKarin]

High-quality ELA materials used less than math? It's not about fidelity, but how to ensure coherency, quality and alignment when many teachers turn to TPT or Pinterest for instructional materials. And foundational skills? Too important to chance for haphazard curriculum!

[Karen Vaites @karenvaites]

@RANDCorporation @s_e_schwartz Really friends, LOOK AT THIS CHART. Eeek.

Lately there has been much focus on critical role of content knowledge to reading comprehension, thanks to @natwexler's #KnowlegdeGap + more. Did you know that @EdReports reviews...
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#satchat #leadlap
https://t.co/ywqMfKLkvI

[Timothy Shanahan @ReadingShanahan]

I’m against it...never familiarize kids with vocabulary that authors will define or that can be figured out on the basis of context or morphology. And then just familiarize them...don’t try to really teach that vocab as prereading.

[Cris Tovani @ctovani]

Can’t wait to dig into secondary literacy strats in Cali! Hope to see you there!

[Cris Tovani @ctovani]

If you have a student who is disengaged, join us to learn more strategies to keep kids from quitting. I’m excited to share new thinking from my upcoming book, How Do I Get These Kids to Read and Write? I’d love to see you!

[Karin Foster @KfosterKarin]

7: Disrupting Genre https://t.co/fIhdDsmRCT via @wordpressdotcom I've been reading and recommending so many of these books> The latest was The Best That We Could Do. What a great book to discuss immigrant experiences and possible consequences. Thought provoking...

[Karin Foster @KfosterKarin]

Time matters! Let's give kids the time they need to learn!

[Jody Guarino @jody_guarino]

@KfosterKarin @allgrange So much great learning! Love spending time looking at the plethora of research. Thank you for the opportunity. #knowbetterdobetter #coreadvocates

[Karin Foster @KfosterKarin]

So glad to see Newport-Mesa at our event! Let's do this!

[Karin Foster @KfosterKarin]

@jody_guarino @allgrange A great day at OCDE today. “If you want to help student achievement focus on amount of time of learning, the content of the learning, and the quality of the experience!” Easy! We got this!

[Carol Jago @CarolJago]

Let’s stop wringing our hands over students’ lack of background knowledge. Instead, foreground content knowledge.

And lose the worksheets.

[Karin Foster @KfosterKarin]

Yep! Time to put the kids first. Every minute matters for some.

[Timothy Shanahan @ReadingShanahan]

Another approach might be to follow the instructional research, stopping wherever the kids get the greatest benefit and worrying less about which adults win or lose.