Catherine Cowan

[Lexia @LexiaLearning]

Dive into Episode 8️⃣ of the #AllForLiteracy #podcast! Tune in as @LizCBrooke talks with @natwexler to understand how to narrow the knowledge gap, increase student #literacy skills, and set up the classroom for equitable education.

Don't miss out! 🎧 https://t.co/9eSrxaN5zg

[Amy Knott @MrsClarkEnglish]

I have created a document to support our subject leaders with #disciplinaryliteracy across a range of subjects as a starting point for editing and developing into their own curriculums. Created with the help of AI to really drill down into key aspects of #literacy #edutwitter

[Principal Bo Ryan @CrecArtsMiddle1]

Our teachers meet in vertical teams at the end of every year to review the priority standards that gave their students the greatest challenges! What worked? What were the challenges?

Learning is Required!

Go @SolutionTree @MarzanoResource

[edutopia @edutopia]

Teachers, you're the glue holding school communities together—Miss B's ingenious strategy is just one of many examples of why.

[Michael Shermer @michaelshermer]

University presidents everywhere need to embrace this simple statement by Ben Sasse, President of the University of Florida:

"At the University of Florida, we have repeatedly, patiently explained two things to protesters: We will always defend your rights to free speech and free assembly—but if you cross the line on clearly prohibited activities, you will be thrown off campus and suspended. In Gainesville, that means a three-year prohibition from campus. That’s serious. We said it. We meant it. We enforced it. We wish we didn’t have to, but the students weighed the costs, made their decisions, and will own the consequences as adults. We’re a university, not a daycare. We don’t coddle emotions, we wrestle with ideas."
https://t.co/z3TCWnh2i9

[Douglas Fisher @DFISHERSDSU]

Teacher clarity is more than simply posting student-friendly learning targets. It’s also about helping students gauge their own progress through the use of success criteria and intentional and deliberate feedback. How has #teacherclarity helped your instruction?

#VisibleLearning

[Carol Jago @CarolJago]

The best graphic organizers start with a blank sheet of paper.

The goal isn't a perfectly filled-in graphic but organized thinking.

[TCEA @TCEA]

Have you tried Pop-Up Grammar❓❓

https://t.co/scwcoBRgG9 via @MartinaBex
#ela #teaching #learning

[Lori Tecler @LoriTecler]

Today my buddy & I read SAM & DAVE DIG A HOLE by @macbarnett with pictures by @burstofbeaden and a @Novel_Effect soundscape. Through the whole book, my buddy kept shaking his head in disbelief and said at the end, “The dog was literally the smartest one in the book.” #kidlit

[TCEA @TCEA]

💡💡💡 15 Ideas for Digital End-of-Semester Final Projects 💡💡💡

https://t.co/KiMaoJ1Qk4 @jmattmiller
#edutwitter #teachingideas #learning

[TCEA @TCEA]

Have you tried FOUR CORNERS? Do your students like it?

https://t.co/i4qZJLBLDz via @jsmithmusings
#teachers #learning #edu

[TCEA @TCEA]

What exactly does differentiation look like? Dive in and learn how to transform your elementary classroom with these 13 unique #reading instruction ideas.

https://t.co/uQd58escKh via @SadlierSchool
#ela #elemchat #teachertwitter

[Jacob Turner @TheJacobTurner]

My dad passed away seven years ago.

He was perfectly healthy until one day he wasn't.

The biggest blessing he gave me was that he was always there.

My dad owned a small business and was quite successful.

He also choose not to continue to expand so he could spend more time with me, my brothers, and my mom.

The money wasn't the end goal for him.

It allowed him to coach my baseball teams, be at important life events, and teach me everything he knew.

I tell you this because when my dad got sick, I remember telling him the thing I appreciated the most was that "he was always there".

It wasn't the house we lived in.
It wasn't the car he bought me at 16.
It wasn't the travel baseball teams he paid for.

It was that he was there, present in my life.

My dad passed away too soon but I appreciate now more than ever the times I get to spend with my kids. I realize the importance of those memories. I know that one day I won't be able to tell how much I love them.

This weekend was a perfect example, a dad/son trip.

We fished.
We talked about life.
We learned about Jesus.

It was everything that mattered.

So remember my friends, there will come a day when everyone's time on this Earth runs out. It is your choice how you spend that time. Use it wisely.

[Lysa TerKeurst @LysaTerKeurst]

We serve a God who breathes life into the shattered soul and creates something new and more beautiful than ever before. And you are never so broken that God can’t make something beautiful out of your life.

Dare to believe it, sweet friend.

[Natalie Wexler @natwexler]

A truly groundbreaking study of the long term effects of knowledge building curriculum. I’ll be writing about it soon!

[Lysa TerKeurst @LysaTerKeurst]

The enemy wants us to believe that times of silence are a curse of loneliness.

But God wants us to know that times of silence are really pathways to closeness with Him.

He loves to use those times of silence as opportunities to speak personally and intimately to our hearts.

[Natalie Wexler @natwexler]

I've been trying to avoid Twitter, but I'd like to respond to some recent tweets. E.g., "it is a common claim that strategies don’t work and that we should instead teach content knowledge. There is zero evidence to support this claim." @NateJoseph19 @FaithBorkowsky 1/6

[Matthew Burns @burnsmk1]

Effect sizes from 333 studies that examined the effects of various reading intervention/instruction on reading comprehension. Published with @nellkduke and @KellyBCartwrig1 @ILAToday @CECMembership @reading_league @ScienceofRead @Bigideasinlit @leadforliteracy @NCILiteracy