Sonja Santelises, CEO of Baltimore City Schools, just penned a superb editorial,We will not hold low-income students back a grade because of coronavirus. It will…
Musings of an edugeek, curriculum evangelist, meme aficionado, and mom
Author: karenvaites
We’re witnessing a growing outcry about teacher preparation in the US. Increasingly, teachers lament that their college courses didn’t prepare them to teach reading. (Really.)…
Welcome to the era of emergency distance learning. In these unprecedented times, teachers and administrators have had to scramble to craft distance learning options for…
** We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming of literacy & math instruction geekery because of a global health crisis. ** I’m a New York City mom raising…
Dear Superintendents, School Board Members, District Leaders, and Anyone Else Invested in Literacy Outcomes, You’ve probably noticed a growing buzz about reading instruction. Literacy is…
I’ve been meaning to write about Reading Workshop for ages. Its program is one of the most popular in K–12, especially in my neck of the…
A thoughtful post by Carrie Mattern, reflecting on her experience at the 2019 NCTE conference in Baltimore, is spawning good discussions in social media. Mattern…
A few weeks ago, inspired by a tweet, I published a rallying cry to a group that I’ve been calling Literacy Twitter. A growing number…
You might want to sit down for this one, friends. The most pervasive practice in K–5 reading instruction is probably small group work in which…
Recently, in a facebook group for reading specialists, a post stood out. It was beautifully written to explain issues with commonly-used strategies for early readers.…