drJennay Ed D

Director of Education, LWC, NBCT, Literacy Specialist

[drJennay Ed D @drneallwc]

@fordmich This is fantastic!!! Congratulations

[drJennay Ed D @drneallwc]

Saturday, September 30
5 p.m. - LWC Education Reunion
Goodhue Education Lab
Join Dr. Jennifer Neal and other LWC education alumni in the education lab for a time of fellowship. Light refreshments will be served.
We would LOVE to see our #LWCEdFam Alum!
Please come and join us

[drJennay Ed D @drneallwc]

❤️🌟❤️

[Dr. John Spencer @spencerideas]

As someone who taught reading intervention at middle school in a school that focused on a phonics-centric Science of Reading approach, here are a few concerns I see with this new trend and how it might be applied to older students:

1. I worry that we will focus so much on skill development that we fail to see the need for reading for pleasure in order to develop reading endurance. At the middle school level, one of the key elements in helping students increase their reading scores was the role of endurance.

2. An emphasis on phonics, blending, and phonemic awareness at the middle school level sometimes fails to recognize the role of critical thinking, vocabulary, and prior knowledge in reading comprehension. I’ve seen highly fluent readers fail reading tests for these reasons.

3. The one-size-fits-all systematic approach that rejects balance might work at younger levels but the reasons a 13 year old is behind will often be far more varied.

4. I’m really worried that some of the people screaming the loudest about research haven’t read the research in-depth and seen the limitations in actual studies, the nuances in the finding, and the context of the studies (rarely about middle school)

5. I want to make sure we are paying attention to accessibility. I know many people who are dyslexic and became avid readers once they could use voice-to-text and audio readers. My fear is that readying will be defined solely as decoding written text and certain people who might thrive as readers will be forced to do drills where they lean into their weakness without learning about assistive technology.

I’m no expert in early literacy but I am concerned with prescriptive approaches that treat middle school students in the same way as a second graders. I’m worried about prescriptive, singular solutions.

[drJennay Ed D @drneallwc]

@athompsonwells @LWCPREZ Happy birthday @LWCPREZ !!

[Chris Schmidt @BigSchmidtDog]

#LiveLearnLead
L3 Symposium @LindseyWilson

[drJennay Ed D @drneallwc]

For my English teacher friends… this is 🔥

[drJennay Ed D @drneallwc]

A diamond is a lump of coal that did well under pressure. So.....

Never let the odds keep you from doing
what you know in your heart you were meant to do.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

[Governor Andy Beshear @GovAndyBeshear]

There are 11,000 teacher vacancies across our state. Think about what that means for the children in those classrooms. We must increase teacher pay. We can't compete if we rank 44th in the nation for starting pay, and that's a fact. It's time we show our teachers we value them.

[drJennay Ed D @drneallwc]

@ecyoung1999 And one day you will be the person that is just who you needed back then, because you have been there 🌟

[drJennay Ed D @drneallwc]

Congratulations to our fall 2022 Education Grads! We are so proud of each of you and cannot wait to see you shine in your own classrooms! Now go out and be change makers! We love you #LWCEdFam 💙🌟💙

[Teacher2Teacher @teacher2teacher]

What your Ss' minds feel like: 💥 💫 🌦

What your classroom sounds like: 🦗 🦗 🦗

Check out this "silent conversation" classroom technique - and apply it to your next instructional unit:

https://t.co/5Vxu4WMU2Y

[drJennay Ed D @drneallwc]

@fordmich @rchslakers @EducationLwc @LindseyWilson It was an amazing day and we loved having @rchlakers spend it with us. They are an outstanding group of young people and we look forward to welcoming them into our #LWCEdFam soon!

[Mandy McLaren @mandy_mclaren]

Coming Wednesday.

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[drJennay Ed D @drneallwc]

@DrMSeale Exactly!

[drJennay Ed D @drneallwc]

@L_D_Washington Family first.

[drJennay Ed D @drneallwc]

@heymrsbond Magazine racks in the window sill. I used them for years this way. And ask parents if anyone wants to donate… I ended up with about 200.