Deborah Gardner

Wife, Mother, Certified Reading Specialist, M.Ed., 5/6th Grade Dyslexia and Intervention Teacher, Centrist, and Learner. Literacy and Justice for ALL!

[Timothy Shanahan @ReadingShanahan]

https://t.co/Tc4OBBmzdE via @NYTimes

[Anjanette McNeely @AnjanetteMcNee2]

I agree that centers might not be the best use of time and often leave students without feedback. I use a learning line instead. I wrote about it here:https://t.co/2IIEpUYi8d

[Deborah Gardner @gardnerdeb5]

@karenvaites @ReadingShanahan No program. C&I puts it together from different curriculums with an emphasis on AI support 🤷‍♀️.

[Ms. Benison- @BenisonMrs]

This is why we can't have nice things.
On a Facebook page called the Science of Literacy, the administrator just posted this. She has close to 15,000 followers.
Among other things, she is suggesting that dyslexia is a visual process, that good writers picture words in their minds, that those whose cognitive load is high rely on their visual memory as a support, that spelling becomes a visual task where they ‘see’ the word rather than sound it out, and that word shapes streghtens students' memory of the word. Sigh....

Again, this person has close to 15,000 followers. Only 3 of us have communicated to her that none of this is based on the evidence.

Moral of the story: Be careful who you follow and who you listen to.

[Deborah Gardner @gardnerdeb5]

@BayEaglesSoar I see my 🦅

[Deborah Gardner @gardnerdeb5]

The state is paying for your test… you got one week to pass the speed test before they change it up and make it harder. This supplemental was so easy.

[Deborah Gardner @gardnerdeb5]

@Tellez_Stephani @DickinsonISD @jackenn27 WHAT!!!!! Congrats. You got to let me know how it goes…Dickinson is so much closer to me😝. They just got a superstar!

[Deborah Gardner @gardnerdeb5]

Region 6 is awesome!

[Deborah Gardner @gardnerdeb5]

@DavidDidau @ACT2CAM 💯

[David Didau @DavidDidau]

If AI can write your curriculum, it probably didn’t deserve to be written.

Yes, LLMs can churn out a lesson or a scheme of work in seconds. But should they? A curriculum isn’t a checklist: it’s a structured expression of value, shaped by judgement, history, and context.
If your curriculum documents read like they were auto-generated, that might be because they were.

[Lee Ann Jung, PhD @leeannjung]

"Minutes" with a special educator are not always minutes of intervention. Coteaching isn't intervention. General push in help isn't intervention. These are "luxury goods." Intervention is a basic necessity! #LeadInclusion #EduSky #UDL #EdLeaders #Teachers

[National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) @ncte]

We honor the extraordinary contributions of Dr. @KyleneBeers to NCTE and the literacy field.

Kylene spurred our leadership forward. Many recognize her as a giant, and that she was, including serving as NCTE President (2008-2009) and a proud member of the Middle Level section.

[Deborah Gardner @gardnerdeb5]

@meg_cynthia Congrats!

[Marlene Robertson🇨🇦 @marlene4719]

Whoever did her Michael Jackson’s nose should lose their license.

[Deborah Gardner @gardnerdeb5]

@Tellez_Stephani @ChapaErika2 @JFTBLiteracy Welcome PISD peeps to the club! Let’s band together and spread our knowledge!

[Deborah Gardner @gardnerdeb5]

After explicit writing instruction, these kids were off and writing. #dyslexiaismysuperpower

[Deborah Gardner @gardnerdeb5]

@imchrispalacios @alicekeeler I mean heavily relying on it! 💀