#AdultESOL finished. Have one weekend off before classes start up again at the very end of May.
#k12 school year is almost finished, but I am doing an intensive, 2-week #ReadingInstruction / #dyslexia PD at the start of summer break.
My final #CyberSecurity course starts tomorrow --- #EthicalHacking! Very excited, but also very exhausted. Love it, but looking forward to being done with CYSC courses. Unfortunately, I won't be teaching it at #HighSchool next year.
Reading’s Thin Line Between Difficult and Boring
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.educationnext.org/readings-thin-line-between-difficult-and-boring/
For anyone who teaches, or is interested in literacy issues, you might check out this article on dyslexia and its relationship to debates about reading instruction:
Dyslexia and the Reading Wars | The New Yorker - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/29/dyslexia-and-the-reading-wars
(sorry that it is behind a paywall, if anyone can't access but really wants a copy, DM me)
The podcast Sold a Story is a startling look at #ReadingInstruction in the US. As #Educators, we need to believe and start from the evidence of what works for young people to learn. This is the story of how strong philosophy and factionalism has prevented many educators from accepting truths about how #Reading works. I recommend that you take a listen.
There's an idea about how children learn to read that's held sway in schools for more than a generation — even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based on this idea can make it harder for children to learn how to read. In this new podcast, host Emily Hanford investigates the influential authors who promote this idea and the company that sells their work. It's an expose of how educators came to believe in something that isn't true and are now reckoning with the consequences — children harmed, money wasted, an education system upended.
Has anyone listened to #SoldAStory yet? It's in my #podcast queue, but I'm curious to hear opinions about it?
https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/
#LiteracyResearch #dyslexia #ReadingInstruction #Reading #ScienceOfReading #education
There's an idea about how children learn to read that's held sway in schools for more than a generation — even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based on this idea can make it harder for children to learn how to read. In this new podcast, host Emily Hanford investigates the influential authors who promote this idea and the company that sells their work. It's an expose of how educators came to believe in something that isn't true and are now reckoning with the consequences — children harmed, money wasted, an education system upended.
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