Reading Legislation: An Alarming Development!
Researcher/scholar Dorsey Hammond Let's Talk About Literacy has written a BRILLIANT article clarifying--with facts & wisdom--how over-relying on phonics & banning language & meaning cues harm students learning to read. literacytalk.info/our-perspectiv…

When helping hurts...

A concise summary of Sierksma (2023)

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What they did
The researcher conducted three studies (N=253, N=80, N=41) exploring how children aged 6-9 assist their peers.

What they found
They discovered that children are more inclined to offer empowering help…

If you are trying to ramp up student engagement, you have to read this thread. Alfie Kohn

Is your district on the right course? Perhaps it is time for a new North Star.
Research For Better Teaching
kappanonline.org/a-new-north-st…

Check the link here. Some great info.

“The coaches’ role is to continually increase capacity and decrease dependency, thereby empowering and not enabling.” -Mentoring Matters by Bruce Wellman & Laura Lipton. Such a good focus for our direction as coaches.

Since we have limited time during the school day to devote to writing, we want to make sure we are getting the most out of it. Autumn has shared 5 high-impact writing strategies for pre-K to upper elementary-aged students that we can try.
edutopia.org/article/high-i… via edutopia

Quite a reading list. Skip grad school and start here.

Metacognition is the foundation for all 16 Habits of Mind. It is thinking about one’s thinking and is essential to the development of social and emotional intelligence.

This ASCD article by Art Costa, Bena Kallick and Allison Zmuda expands on this.

ascd.org/el/articles/th…

My new blog post - 'Cognitive Load Theory: An Unpersuasive Attempt to Justify Direct Instruction' - dissects another dubious effort to undermine progressive education by invoking the magic phrase 'science of learning.' (Warning: footnotes galore!)
alfiekohn.org/blogs/clt/

Novices aren't little or unlearnt experts. They see the world differently and understand it differently. To quote myself: 'What you know determines what you see and not the other way around.'

We rely on data to tell us what has happened, and stories to tell us what it means. #datastorytelling

What can we learn from experts on expertise? Some notes from this excellent book 🧵⬇️

So nice to see this important paper out !! 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

How do bodily signals, eg., co-speech hand gestures play into the processes of prediction & fast responding in speaker turns? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co… Corpus study shows hand gestures to semantic information start before corresponding speech information ->gestures for prediction?

What helps students learn best: Tests or projects? Research finds high order retrieval practice–applying knowledge rather than memorizing facts for tests–is the best way to activate high level thinking.
psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-26…
#education #research #PBL #StorytellingWithPurpose

Just been reminded of this quote from Herbert Simon, which he got from Elliott Dunlap Smith: bit.ly/3vHKpOj (p.1)

Because standardized tests are a scam. Tool created to control and degrade schools. They make up arbitrary standards and benchmarks and set them so most schools can’t meet them and then point a finger and say look, they are failing.

More tools for the teacher toolbox.