Taylor Arrell

Literacy Coach 📕 Integrated Literacy Facilitator 📖 AIM Institute for Learning and Research 💛💙 @AIMtoLearn #UntilAllChildrenRead

[Megan Gierka 🌻 @MeganGierka]

In simplest terms, if you want students to get better at reading, MAKE THEM READ.

❌Cut the PA programs, redundant scaffolds, & hyperfixation on linguistics.
✅Teach. Practice. Read words in books.

[Karen Vaites @karenvaites]

Cautionary Tale Alert:

In the so-called ‘Science of Reading’ era, educators were sold a story about phonemic awareness, turning a little-known product into the *most-used curriculum* in US schools.

A faddish approach was packaged as a curriculum supplement, then boosted by SoR influencers, and it sold like hotcakes.

Today, it’s being walked back nationwide.

How'd this happen? Also, are curriculum reviewers working to ensure it doesn’t happen again?

My latest:

[International Dyslexia Association @DyslexiaIDA]

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[Taylor Arrell @Taylor_Arrell]

It’s about damn time, PA! Shoutout to Representative Ortitay @JasonOrtitay who’s been fighting the good fight for our state.

“Let’s ensure all children in Pennsylvania can read” 🥹📚
#LiteracyISaRight #UntilEveryoneCanRead
https://t.co/K3CaVPaRMw

[Taylor Arrell @Taylor_Arrell]

Wonderful day of training with MS folks 🤓 @AIMtoLearn #DCSMSLiteracy

[Taylor Arrell @Taylor_Arrell]

@ShannonRdgNook @CoachingPD Wait - we’re here too!! We need to find you tomorrow 🤩🤩 @adriennetweets2

[Taylor Arrell @Taylor_Arrell]

We’re looking forward to continued learning from top notch coaches and leaders! #TLC2025 #LearningfromExperience @CoachingPD @jimknight99 @AIMtoLearn @adriennetweets2 @KristyHeal

[Taylor Arrell @Taylor_Arrell]

Beyond grateful for my position and being able to reach more students’ lives 📖

[The Reading League @reading_league]

“Teaching a child changes a life. Teaching a teacher changes hundreds—and transforms generations.” – Dr. Maria Murray

On #InternationalLiteracyDay, we celebrate the power of literacy and the lasting impact of empowering educators with evidence-aligned knowledge.

[AIM Institute @AIMtoLearn]

BIG news for @NYCSchools students: reading proficiency rose citywide this year. 🎉

Read more: https://t.co/zhh1J1jpjL

AIM is proud to support this momentum as a Multiple Task Award Contract-approved partner. Through AIM Pathways, we help New York educators build the knowledge and tools to deliver explicit, evidence-based literacy instruction aligned with NYC Reads.

Progress takes partnership and we’re honored to serve NYC’s educators and leaders.

#NYCReads #PartnerforImpact

[Taylor Arrell @Taylor_Arrell]

Just finished a lovely session on behavioral screening and tiered systems with Bellefonte Area School District! #MTSSMiniSummit @BranchingMinds

[Taylor Arrell @Taylor_Arrell]

@kdunning223 @AIMtoLearn @MeganGierka @Literacy_Wynns @jtreadway_ Aww thank you! ☺️ It’s such a pleasure learning and growing with MS folks who are so passionate and dedicated!

[James A. Furey @JamesAFurey]

Children raised on constant stimulation will struggle to read a book, follow a lecture, or sit with an idea long enough to understand it.

Schools should be training students to think, to ponder, to formulate, not encouraging their addiction to distraction.

Limiting screen time in class is a necessity.

[Karen Vaites @karenvaites]

A word about teacher training on the “Science of Reading”:

LETRS, an intensive training on reading foundations, became practically synonymous with the “Mississippi Miracle.”

Would you be surprised to learn that Mississippi replaced LETRS with a more streamlined training years ago?

LETRS is 150 hours. Mississippi’s current training (AIM Pathways) is 45 hours. Tennessee’s homegrown Reading350 training was 60 hours. Louisiana’s training requires 55 hours of training (from a short list of providers).

The lesson: High-performing states are shifting toward more focused, streamlined, and practice-oriented training. This should help them train their teachers in a more cost-effective & time-efficient fashion.

I don’t get the sense that other states are always getting this memo. Which is a problem, because 45 states have passed literacy legislation, and teacher training is one of the most common pillars of those bills. LETRS continues to be popular in those state efforts.

Districts have also flocked to LETRS training, so district leaders need this memo, too.

[Kareem J. Weaver @KJWinEducation]

Schools' social-emotional programs are often just band-aids covering up the gaping wounds from reading programs and materials that don't work or teachers who don't have time to plan 4 full implementation. 25yr old teachers acting like therapists... isnt the fix. It's Cat-Hat-Rat

[AIM Institute @AIMtoLearn]

Kicking off another round of #AIMPathways training w/ @MissDeptEd educators with some Post-It note fun w/ our @DCSeNews and Oxford County partners. Thanks to the 11 AIMazing facilitators who are in MS this week helping educators learn, practice, and apply their #structuredliteracy knowledge. #partnerforimpact #researchtopractice @jtreadway_

[Justin Baeder, PhD @eduleadership]

Children are unique as individuals, but not as learners. Everyone learns the same WAY, just at varied speeds.

Confusion about this has led to a lot of bad ideas and practices.

[Taylor Arrell @Taylor_Arrell]

We 💜 Professional Learning! #LearnFwd2024 #DenverCO #TshirtTuesday #AIMInstitute @ColleenDanilson @adriennetweets2 @AIMtoLearn @LearningForward

[AIM Institute @AIMtoLearn]

The AIM Team is heading to Denver! 🌟 We are proud to sponsor the @LearningForward Annual Conference, happening December 8–11. Looking forward to connecting with fellow literacy leaders, sharing ideas, and exploring innovative evidence-based approaches together.

#LearnFwd24