Dr. Rachael Gabriel

Education researcher, Writer, Prof. of literacy education. All tweets represent my own opinions and sensemaking.

[Dr. Rachael Gabriel @RacheGabriel]

If you care about neurodiversity, linguistic diversity, cultural diversity, racial justice, disability justice you can't ignore the potential of any curriculum or curriculum policy to exclude and erase.

Especially when curriculum is being used as a lever for reform.

[Dr. Rachael Gabriel @RacheGabriel]

Applications due March 14! Join us :).

[Kimberlé Crenshaw @sandylocks]

We know now that what they're coming after is not one form of thinking. It's not Black history, it's not intersectionality, it's not critical race theory. They're coming after the entire infrastructure that has been created from the civil rights movement.

[Dr. Rachael Gabriel @RacheGabriel]

9/10 times I signed on here when it was the blue-🐦, it was to see what @jmhenner had to say about the world and bounce off to jon-inspired side quests.

In celebration of the 43rd anniversary of his birth, I'm going to give #BlueskySocial a try.

See you there or beyond.

[Dr. Rachael Gabriel @RacheGabriel]

Black women have saved democracy enough times to deserve more than cosmetic diversity. We deserve more than hope and change. We deserve recognition and power. Above all, we deserve better than a post at the head of a sinking ship that reveres the iceberg.
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[Dr. Rachael Gabriel @RacheGabriel]

"Holding Vigil" by Alison Luterman https://t.co/rIwde1JVKt via @rattlepoetry

[Josh Cowen @joshcowenMI]

Most of this spending went to kids who were already in private school before getting vouchers.
https://t.co/LC7XLpKqeZ

[Dr. Rachael Gabriel @RacheGabriel]

teachers using American sign language used student-centered approaches, generating a greater number of directives and responsive utterances. They persevered in increasing students’ engagement and were successful in clarifying misunderstandings.

[Dr. Rachael Gabriel @RacheGabriel]

"Teachers using spoken English [made more] general comments directed at the whole class...They also largely avoided repairing communication breakdowns with emergent writers, focusing instead on those with greater auditory and speaking abilities."

https://t.co/g9bkTjMcCe

[Dr. Rachael Gabriel @RacheGabriel]

The cost of distraction.
$3.2bn

[Josh Cowen @joshcowenMI]

One of the big themes in The Privateers is the Right’s invention of culture wars precisely to weaken public schools (and pull taxpayer cash for voucher schemes)

Now a stunning new report quantifies the cost public schools have paid to defend themselves.
https://t.co/zUaGZpRBxV

[Jeffrey Austin @JAustinEDU]

It's so depressing to watch tech evangelists + their corporate ed reformer allies continue to push AI into public schools to further deprofessionalize educators + dehumanize students in pursuit of control + profit using the language of equity.

[Josh Cowen @joshcowenMI]

JD Vance recently said “the professors are the enemy.”

A certain right-wing think tank is busy combing through hundreds of my employment records, including my personnel file—which is strong. They’re desperate for any way to discredit me or my book, The Privateers.

There seems to be some special fixation they have with why, in 2020, I left the research center I founded at MSU in 2016. So I’ll tell you.

What happened is that I could not keep up with the pace of a growing organization. During a reappointment process that would have committed me to 3 more years, I decided I couldn’t do it anymore, and stepped aside. We had an outstanding co-director and a managing director who deserved to run the center entirely, without me squatting on an honorary title.

During the resulting leadership transition process, I continued to insist on having many things done my way, and in doing so made things harder for my team than they needed to be. Especially once the pandemic hit. I regret that. But eventually we settled on a resolution, I went back to my full-time faculty role, and everyone moved on.

There you have it.

I stand by the sum total of my career, and by The Privateers👇

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[andrea @teachbk]

After the HMH compliance walkthrough I was told there was a question as to why I included the word "block" in my vocabulary center.

Reader, the word was included in the Into Reading lesson plan.

[Dr. Rachael Gabriel @RacheGabriel]

@plthomasEdD Can dm!

[Dr. Rachael Gabriel @RacheGabriel]

Feels like we the turning point we clocked 6mos ago is rounding faster now.

The new Clemens & Vaughn Article in TRLJ is another indication

Watch how the loudest respond.
Are they silent?
Did they tell you so?
Is that what they meant all along?
Is the old news new again?

[Mrs. K @MelK_Ed]

In a district PD today where I read the words “do not over correct with more remedial work” and “provide scaffolds to ensure access to grade level material for all students”

I feel like I’ve been flipped into a different universe and I like it here ❤️

[Dr. Rachael Gabriel @RacheGabriel]

Teacher PD has needed an overhaul for a generation. And, it matters how we do it.

Don't let it be the next frontier for $ flow w/o accountability.

Don't let teachers be another kind of casualty of policy change.
@LearningForward @ASCD @ILAToday @ncte @ncte_cel

[Dr. Rachael Gabriel @RacheGabriel]

"we must focus on equipping teachers with the knowledge and skills they need to improve student reading outcomes. This will require far more than knowledge of how to teach phonics and phonemic awareness"

[Dr. Rachael Gabriel @RacheGabriel]

"equipping teachers with knowledge and skills" is not accidental word choice.
It means an INVESTMENT IN teachers
-BUILDING ON their knowledge & skills, not thrashing and burning materials or swinging a policy pendulum
-INTEGRATION, not papering over the absence of investment

[Dr. Rachael Gabriel @RacheGabriel]

I'm all in: "we must focus on equipping teachers with the knowledge and skills they need to improve student reading outcomes. This will require far more than knowledge of how to teach phonics and phonemic awareness" @DrNathanClemens & Vaughn

watch for pivots on how we do this

[Dr. Rachael Gabriel @RacheGabriel]

"Stating that ‘we are following the science of reading’ will never replace the impact of well-educated & knowledgeable teachers who both understand the science of reading & the instructional practices that are most effective"

[Dr. Rachael Gabriel @RacheGabriel]

Meanwhile, @DrNathanClemens & Vaughn's latest in TRLJ

"However, the science of reading is not a program or pedagogy that can be purchased or adopted…"

[andrea @teachbk]

If you don't work in NYC public schools, you might think the mandated reading curriculums are aligned to the science of reading and now we're just patiently waiting for reading test scores to improve.

Here's why that's nonsense.

https://t.co/0vyFwKheNX

[Dr. Rachael Gabriel @RacheGabriel]

"we must focus on equipping teachers with the knowledge and skills they need to improve student reading outcomes. This will require far more than knowledge of how to teach phonics and phonemic awareness"