@KJWinEducation One of the biggest, most damaging traumas a child can suffer is to be in a classroom where they are not appropriately taught to read and are made to feel responsible for the failure of the educators. To suffer this year after year is unconscionable.
It's #TeacherAppreciationWeek and OgStar Reading wants to give subscriptions to 5 teachers to use with their students now through the summer! In school or at home, students can practice foundational reading skills. To enter, retweet and "reply" with your district/school site!
Today we celebrated Orton Gillingham sentence reading with a shaving cream explosion. Last week he couldn't read a CVC word and today he read a complete sentence.
In my years of reporting on reading, I haven’t met a teacher who didn’t want her/his students to be good readers. But I’ve met a lot of who didn’t know what cognitive scientists have figured out abt how reading comprehension works. Listen @EducatePodcast https://t.co/X747Gppmib
Tried out Jamboard with 2 kids for Order of Operations. While helping one student go through the steps on his board, I hear the other student ask Siri the answer to his problem. So I ask him if he could have used any of the strategies from school. "Um, no, Siri is right here."
We had the best day at the Leadership Summit for Young Women! Thank you to these wonderful young women for representing SPHS. We learned valuable lessons about leadership and life! @BaltCoPS