Meghan

former teacher | marketer | total mom

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@TheStefanSmith Hard to be the party fighting excessive capitalism when your comms strategy is really, really excessive capitalism.

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@SoLInTheWild It’s an entire strand of social studies: Individual Development and Identity.

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@p_millerd 6ish

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@MikeHerndonSk1 And there’s no guarantee that the expensive clubs have significantly better coaching or competition

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I hope to god this is not actually the DSCC. The most embarrassing spam. Not exactly projecting leadership.

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@jalapenoflow @CravedSanity @alexbgervais Have you had any IRL convos with middle America, middle aged guys about Pete? They like him.

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@TheStefanSmith There’s a skabillion things you can improve in classrooms, but none of it matters if you don’t solve the base of teacher turnover (and by extension its cousin, burnout)

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@TheStefanSmith 1) improve content + content curation for kids. PBS Kids and Bluey are great, but after they age out of Wild Kratts, it’s chaos.

2) public campaign to parents about academic benchmarks.

3) solve teacher turnover. Enormous scope, expensive, idk so is war with the Middle East.

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@mikehoffmann The parenting books? Or the management books?

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@Chris_Grosse I think this could cure me

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If you think Uconn fans are unbearable now, imagine us if we lose a Natty to the refs.

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@patlenehan14 @HurleyMania Culver’s is a must stop.

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@NoEscalators And Bill. Coaches’ dads must be like goalie moms.

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@GeauxGabrielle Thank you very much for putting this together. Very helpful. And also I was happier before I read it.

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In his recent writing, and especially this talk with @ehanford, @markseidenberg is remarkably direct about the phonics overteaching problem that emerged in the Science of Reading era.

“Typically developing children might not need all the instruction that was being specified in structured literacy, but — this is an important point — people said, "Well, that's okay, because it's not going to be harmful. if the kid gets extra instruction on these things or if they get extra opportunities to practice what they know."

So there was indeed a sense that there wasn't much danger of too much of a good thing, so if it's good for dyslexics, it's going to be good for everyone.

So what's happened? Well, if you treat everyone like they might be dyslexic, you get an intensive, slow, incremental approach to instruction, with no stone left unturned.

In practice, what it's meant is a barrage of explicit instruction.

So I would say the science of reading has an overteaching problem. Is all this explicit instruction necessary? No, because children don't only learn from explicit instruction.

Moreover, the opportunity costs of doing all this instruction are huge. Instruction time in schools is limited. Teachers have enormous demands on their time.

Over-teaching the components of reading eats into time for other learning activities, such as reading itself.

So, I want to be clear here. Some explicit instruction is needed to help beginning readers get off the ground. There's no question. The whole language balanced literacy approach that came before did not do an adequate job with this. That had to be corrected.

But the science of reading has overshot the target, because most kids aren't dyslexic, and most of the knowledge that supports reading isn't actually learned from instruction, as I'm going to illustrate. If you try to teach it all, you're interfering with or taking away from other learning opportunities that kids need.”

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@JAYVERSACE Roy Rogers

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@TheStefanSmith Theres halftime shovelers here. Rude, tbh.

And you know you do NOT want sleet on bare pavement.

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@PenguinSix Vehicular homicides don’t count?

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@TheStefanSmith It appears we might need to retake the class

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