Recently, I read an excellent post by Doug Lemov that introduced “de-silo-fication”: the idea that we should re-couple things which are sometimes considered discretely, but…
Musings of an edugeek, curriculum evangelist, meme aficionado, and mom
Month: November 2018
I’ve been talking literacy instruction with Mom, a whip-smart principal-turned-curriculum-director, this Fall. The tsunami of articles on literacy has given us lots to discuss. We…
Friends, let’s talk about poorly-understood research that has the potential to turbocharge your reading outcomes: Students’ background knowledge matters more to their reading comprehension than…
Dear superintendents, CAOs, curriculum directors, principals, literacy coaches, teachers, and school board members, An important national conversation about how we teach reading has been gaining…