Elana Gordon Nate Joseph Timothy Shanahan wrote about this not too long ago. He is helpful when explaining how research translates into practice for me!

Tim Shanahan's important call for reasonable flexibility for teachers. Good instruction is adaptive, teachers responding to how students are doing.

“On the other hand, slavishly following such a curriculum is unlikely to succeed, unless teachers are wisely adaptive. Effective teaching will always be more than following a script.”

“Neuroscience is largely a correlational enterprise. Scientists analyze brain images and look for patterns and consistencies…is then translated into hypotheses and possible explanations for how those patterns connect to external behaviors and conditions.” Timothy Shanahan

Join us in Athens on October 18-20, 2024 for our Dyslexia and Dyscalculia Conference featuring international keynotes. This will be a wonderful opportunity to hear about research and practice and to network with colleagues from across Europe, and beyond. eda-info.eu/events/confere…

”Written language contains far more vocabulary words than oral language. In fact most of the words that comprise a student’s reading vocabulary will appear in their lives only in written texts…” Doug Lemov

Childhood poverty disrupts language processing neural networks in adulthood, after controlling for phonological awareness. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I wrote about rejecting curriculum reform amnesia and instead using lessons both from past failures (and those that haven’t happened yet!) to inform successful implementation.

With inspo from Right to Read Project Michael Pershan Kareem J. Weaver Timothy Shanahan

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The Literacy View’s latest episode w/ The Reading League stirred discussion.
Judy Boksner Dr. Maria Murray
Kari Kurto
Website: theliteracyview.com

Timothy Shanahan article
shanahanonliteracy.com/blog/what-does…

“Effective teaching will always be more than following a script.” During webinars I’ve presented re: French adaptations of the UF Literacy Institute program for use in the EARLY FRENCH IMMERSION setting, I’ve always included this caveat. Programs don’t teach kids. Adaptations must be made.

This Timothy Shanahan blog explains the importance of using a literacy program with integrity vs fidelity. Our teachers have to understand the standards and our students to help them make progress.

Great read on understanding the balance between having fidelity to a program vs fidelity to learning. It is summed up beautifully with this statement: “Effective teaching will always be more than following a script.” Thank You! Timothy Shanahan
shanahanonliteracy.com/blog/what-does…

✔️Integrity over fidelity
✔️Trust teacher expertise
✔️More time for collaborative discussion and planning with other teacher experts
✔️There is no one size fits all
✔️Trust teachers over programs

Timothy Shanahan “But any careful analysis of a transcript of her lesson would reveal that she was making important adaptations to my brilliant handiwork.” You can tell the difference between “important adaptations” and unpreparedness that lowers expectations.

'...facilitate some kind of group planning process. Involve your reading specialists and special education teachers in this, too. Basically, allow your teachers some latitude in omitting or insisting upon certain lessons, but do that as a group rather than a free-for-all'

'Effective teaching will always be more than following a script.' A great read this morning on fidelity & what that actually could look like! Love this!

Teachers on our #KnowledgeMatters School Tours often report using a common, high-quality curriculum allows them benefit from curriculum-based PLCs, collaborating more deeply on unit and lesson planning and reflecting on what’s working and not through the study of student work.

As an educator who uses the program he helped write….this is has affirmed that our school is doing *exactly* what we need to be doing!

“I’m a big fan of shared curriculum because without it, it is virtually impossible to get large-scale school improvement…But such a collective commitment to a common program of instruction in no way should limit a teacher’s ability to adapt lessons to student response.”