Monica McHale-Small☮️

Mom & Granmon, Advocate, Educator, Science of Reading enthusiast

[NOLLY @omoelerinjare1]

Los Angeles, 15-year-old Clara Daly from California, was travelling with her mom.

A flight attendant asked if anyone knew sign language. Clara, who had studied ASL for about a year, volunteered.

The passenger was 64-year-old Tim Cook, who is deaf and blind, flying alone. Clara knelt in the aisle and fingerspelled into his hand to communicate. She helped him order water, check the time, and speak with the crew.

For the rest of the long flight, she stayed with him, chatting until landing and bringing comfort to his journey.

[Andrew Shanock, PhD @ashanock]

Report: Nearly One-Third of Teachers Still Use ‘Discredited’ Reading Methods @The74 https://t.co/GKbpZjf6st

[Kareem J. Weaver @KJWinEducation]

The soft bigotry of low expectations, presented as empathy, compassion, and tolerance, is a 1st order threat to our children’s education - trapping them in illiteracy and lifelong dependency.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

No nation, no society, and no international order can call itself just and humane if it measures its success solely by power or prosperity while neglecting those who live at the margins. Indeed, Christ’s love for the least and the forgotten compels us to reject every form of selfishness that leaves the poor and the vulnerable invisible.

[Monica McHale-Small☮️ @MchaleSmall]

@S_Oberle Reading aloud by teachers is one of the practices I saw disappearing from classrooms in the later years of my public school career. It is such a critical practice that so many see as wasting time. They are wrong!!

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

"November is coming up, and so you do have a voting opportunity to win this. The response from Democrats should be to make people as angry as possible... and say the only way we fix this is with overwhelming voting force."

@SarahLongwell25 on how Dems can win a rigged map fight.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

There have been only four Black congressmen elected to the U.S. House from Louisiana since Reconstruction.

They’re all in this photo.

[The New Republic @newrepublic]

Samuel Alito Quoted Fake Data in His Ruling Gutting Voting Rights Act https://t.co/dMHr4BLjIE

[Pamela Snow @PCSnow1604]

In my latest Snow Report blogpost (yes, some of us still blog!) I bring together cognitive load theory (CLT) and trauma-informed practice, to make the case that educators looking for guidelines on how to teach trauma-affected students should start with CLT and related explicit instruction principles. Educators do not always know which children are impacted by trauma, but by applying learning science/MTSS principles they can ensure that a rising tide lifts all boats.
https://t.co/94r1yNF1XB

[Sarah Oberle, Ed.D. @S_Oberle]

He is exactly correct.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

FRANKLIN, TN conservative @DavidAFrench: “I’ve changed my perception of the lingering severity of race problems. We adopted a child from Ethiopia- maybe naive: didn’t think she’d have a different experience than our older kids. There wasn’t a school she wasn’t called the N word.”

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

The earth is just spinning through infinite darkness at 67,000 miles per hour and somehow it also made blueberries?? And laughing?? And the feeling of sun on your face?? What is this place. What a an absolute gift.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

I just can’t imagine wanting an entire secure ballroom for one man and not wanting gun reform for every child in America.

[CBS Mornings @CBSMornings]

“It just means everything”: Congratulations to the National Teacher of the Year, Leon Smith, a social studies educator at Haverford High School in Havertown, Pennsylvania!

Mr. Smith, who also coaches the school’s freshman basketball team, gets a surprise from a very special basketball legend, whom he’s long looked up to.

[Paul L. Morgan🥋📚 @PaulMorganPhD]

We have a new study on #autism identification in U.S. elementary schools. We find that, relative to similarly situated students attending the same schools, those who are Black, Hispanic, female, or ELL are less likely to identified. https://t.co/HN21eAXKAh

[Carl Hendrick @C_Hendrick]

The story here for me is not about tech vs no tech but about minimally guided instruction vs explicit instruction. Unleashing kids on an iPad with badly designed apps will yield the same outcomes as asking them to discover knowledge in classroom groups.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon https://t.co/bKteFZ3iWE

[Donna Brazile @donnabrazile]

Harvard University is offering a FREE online course on the US Constitution! Understanding our Constitution has rarely been more important. Enroll in a free, short, engaging online course.

HarvardX: American Government: Constitutional Foundations | edX https://t.co/fm2LcQ1eZ2

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Hundreds of millions of people throughout the world are immersed in extreme poverty. Yet, disproportionate wealth remains in the hands of a few. It is an unjust scenario, in the face of which we cannot fail to question ourselves and commit to change things. There is no lack of resources at the root of disparities, but the need to address solvable problems related to a more equitable distribution of wealth, to be achieved with moral sense and honesty.