Micah Taylor

Husband. Gamer. Educator. Learner.

Assistant Superintendent of Teaching & Learning
Farmersville, ISD

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@ShippySpins The Fox by Yivis

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Texas schools are facing a financial crisis (and legislators could fix it tomorrow)

https://t.co/CFjvviYICu

@jamestalarico @Texans4E @sarah_eckhardt @GovAbbott @stevefortx @RepMaryGonzalez @teainfo @RepHaroldDutton @DadePhelan

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"(Teachers) realize that phonics helps students gain access to words, which in turn helps them gain access to meaning. And that is the point of reading---to comprehend the information, to learn something new, to enjoy escaping into the world of a story." @wbny #phonics

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"Everything looks bigger up close. In all aspects of life, what's happening today seems like a much bigger deal than it will appear in retrospect. That's why it helps to step back to gain perspective and sometimes defer a decision until some time passes." - @RayDalio

#leadership

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"One of the most important decisions you can make is who you ask questions of. Listening to uninformed people is worse than having no answers at all."
- @RayDalio

#leadership #decisionmaking

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"If we want to induce children to read lots, we must teach them them to read well." - Marilyn Adams, Beginning to Read

#reading #literacy

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Based on TEA's data, just under 89% of students were fully engaged between spring break and the end of the year. Almost 9% of students were either never engaged, lost engagement, lost contact, or never contacted at all.

https://t.co/lOVbiqAlBM

#TEA #COVIDー19 #teaching

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"What is the real goal?

The real goal is not to “beat the market.” The goal is to build wealth.

The real goal is not to read more books. The goal is to understand what you read.

Don’t let a proxy become the target. Don’t optimize for the wrong outcome."

–@JamesClear

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I’m joining #8CantWait to urge local mayors to enact policies that have the power to reduce police violence that results in death in our major cities by up to 72%. I urge you to join me. We simply can’t wait — too much is at stake. Learn more: https://t.co/NedZ5dL2eB

[fortunate @thyfortunate]

A Christian way of explaining Black lives matter to someone who keeps saying All lives matter. Thank you Carl Lentz.

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Learning to Read: The Importance of Both Phonological and Morphological Approaches

https://t.co/gmwMFtVxAT

#reading #phonics #phonemicawareness

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@webofootball1 Thanks, Coach! I'm going to come see you soon just to catch up.

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"Nor does phonics have to be bereft of intellectual depth. Learning how to decode---beginning to read---is deeply satisfying, deeply intellectual work. It should never be mindless."

-David & Meredith Liben, "Know Better, Do Better"

#phonics #reading

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"Successful decoding doesn't guarantee comprehension, but poor decoding guarantees poor comprehension."

-David & Meredith Liben

#phonics #reading

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One man's "lucky" is another man's "blessed." Settling on luck is deciding random chance impacted you favorably. Acknowledging blessings is recognizing God's hand in everything you do and experience.

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"There are 3 primary drivers of results in life:

1) Your luck (randomness).
2) Your strategy (choices).
3) Your actions (habits).

2 of the 3 are under your control. But if you master those 2, you improve the odds that luck will work for you, not against you."

–@JamesClear

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@matthew_arend Re-reading, but Thinking In Bets by @AnnieDuke. It's on my summer reading list every year.

[Simon Sinek @simonsinek]

Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan.

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"The settlement comes weeks after a federal appeals court issued a groundbreaking decision to recognize education and literacy as a constitutional right."

https://t.co/FQtDKh2x4T