Mom & Granmon, Advocate, Educator, Science of Reading enthusiast
Pennsylvania, USA
Joined September 2019
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Monica McHale-Small☮️ retweeted
"Everything we love is on the line" in the US election. I argue that President Trump has systematically undone the strategy that since the 19th century has made the US the world's leading country. He has eroded our sources of greatness.
So what's at stake isn't just affordability or data centers or the Iran war. It's America's future: nytimes.com/2026/10/24/opini…
Monica McHale-Small☮️ retweeted
I encourage people to watch the video and hear for themselves that El-Sayed says he “absolutely” denounces the Muslim Brotherhood, and goes on to explain that he supports the Constitution. What’s more newsworthy is a CBS reporter trafficking in bigoted disinformation.
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Monica McHale-Small☮️ retweeted
“To invoke God’s name in order to justify violence or oppression is to profane His name,” he said. “Nothing that disfigures human dignity can claim to be inspired by God.”
Monica McHale-Small☮️ retweeted
✍️ Handwriting isn’t just a way of recording thinking. The slowness helps generate it.
In the latest edition of DistillED, I explore what the evidence tells us about handwriting, memory, attention, and why putting pen to paper still matters in today’s digital classrooms.
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Monica McHale-Small☮️ retweeted
I’ll leave this here because it needs no words from me.
My thanks as ever to Kathryn Anne Edward’s for her relentless commitment to providing information everyone needs to hear.
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Monica McHale-Small☮️ retweeted
For months, there have been concerns that the U.S. Department of Education could allow millions in #SpecialEducation research dollars to lapse. Now, a federal judge is stepping in. #disabilities disabilityscoop.com/2026/09/…
Monica McHale-Small☮️ retweeted
A local teacher spoke at last night’s board meeting and I’m cc’ing all teachers bc we all feel this.
Monica McHale-Small☮️ retweeted
National Coalition Condemns Education Dept Guidance on Student Discipline in K-12 Schools, Issues Brief to Help Sch's Use Evidence-Based Practices - Press advisory - fedsdc.org/condemns-trump-gu…
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Monica McHale-Small☮️ retweeted
Waste no time assessing and mitigating for foundational deficits.
Handwriting fluency is critical.
Each child gets a personal reference with their characters that aren’t yet mastered. The highlight spares visual tracking which, in turn, saves working memory capacity.
Monica McHale-Small☮️ retweeted
This is an absolutely insane lie. His whole story about this today is a lie. I know he's lied about his non-role in 9/11 rescue/recovery before, but never this level of detail. Just total fantasy. Utterly disgraceful. Next he will claim he won the Medal of Honor. nitter.gq/atrupar/status/2097340…
Trump claims he was basically lifted out of the rubble on 9/11: "Two fireman, big strong guys, they grabbed me under the arms -- 'got to get our of here!' -- and they literally lifted me up, and they started running with me."
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Trump was miles from Ground Zero on 9/11, speaking by phone from his office. He visited the area days later. His story of being lifted from the rubble by firefighters first appeared in 2021 and lacks corroborating evidence. politifact.com/factchecks/202… usatoday.com/story/news/fac… newsweek.com/fact-check-did…
Monica McHale-Small☮️ retweeted
We overcame one Gilded Age and we can overcome this one. Time for a new square deal like TR’s 3 C’s: Corporate control, Consumer protection and Conservation of natural resources. Happy Labor Day.
Monica McHale-Small☮️ retweeted
Imagine the amount of propaganda it took to convince millions of people that healthcare, food assistance, social programs, clean water, clean air, good wages, housing, equal rights, diversity and a healthy planet for all people was somehow a threat to America and to Christianity.
Monica McHale-Small☮️ retweeted
How Teachers Feel About Adapting Instruction for Students With Disabilities edweek.org/teaching-learning…
Monica McHale-Small☮️ retweeted
Evil cannot be overcome with evil. On earth as in heaven, love is the law of life and the way of redemption, the way of the crucified Messiah. In opposition to the false realism that rearms minds, words, and nations, Catholic culture must today offer the realism of mercy, according to which there can be no enemies. Everyone, even our adversaries, is a brother or sister to be looked in the eye and encountered in truth. #PastoralVisit #Rimini
Monica McHale-Small☮️ retweeted
More than a decade after Rita Pierson stepped onto the TED stage and declared, “Every child deserves a champion,” her words still echo through schools.
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Monica McHale-Small☮️ retweeted
Promising developments in social studies:
A new KY curriculum.
A new DE program combining civics & literacy.
A free webinar on a new US history curriculum from @4qmTeaching teaching on 8.13!
More in my new post:
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Monica McHale-Small☮️ retweeted
In the US the total routine injections by age 2, is 13.
They are:
Hep B, Valexis (DTaP, IPV, Hib), PCV, Valexis dose 2, PCV dose 2, Vaxelis dose 3, PCV dose 3, PCV booster, MMR(V), Hib booster, Hepatitis A #1, DTaP booster, Hepatitis A #2
In Denmark, by age 2 it is 11 doses because they combine their hepatitis boosters with the MMRV doses.
Even with voluntary inoculations, no child in the US has 72 injections.
The average American who is not diabetic, will take 53~ years to reach 72 injections, assuming they get an annual flu shot.
There also is no blanket “European Standard” of inoculation, it varies by country with Denmark being the lowest because they have approved combination doses.
A child in Denmark still gets all the same vaccines that a US child did before Trump’s proposed changes.
They just think you’re too stupid to look.
No longer!
Thank you, President Trump and @SecKennedy!
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Image is deliberately misleading. 72 is the potential number of doses--not vaccines--if someone got every booster shot every year through age 18; it is not vaccinations for an infant. The US schedule traditionally recommended twelve vaccinations for 0-6 mos.
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Monica McHale-Small☮️ retweeted
🚨 NCLD strongly opposes efforts to fast-track the 21st Century Dyslexia Act through the Senate. We urge Senators to oppose any effort to pass the bill by unanimous consent.
Read our statement: ncld.co/3RRyFUQ
Take Action: ncld.co/4fLuIu1
Monica McHale-Small☮️ retweeted
One idea that stood out to us from this article is that the more deeply a student knows a word, the more likely they are to recognize it, spell it, define it, and use it in speaking and writing.
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Monica McHale-Small☮️ retweeted
🔔 ATTENTION! Attention is the prerequisite for learning. As Daniel Willingham puts it — "memory is the residue of thought." In other words, students will remember what they think about.
📼 NEW VIDEO EXPLAINER! The first DistillED Explainer unpacks what the science tells us about securing attention and five practical strategies you can use straight away.
👉 youtu.be/9CRzx_8AcjM
