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◻️MINI-WHITEBOARDS! MWBs are the unsung heroes of the classroom. They boost participation, drive thinking, and help you adapt your teaching in real time. This recent one-page guide summarises the essentials…
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Registration is open! Join us for our first TRL IL event: Literacy Across Languages: The Science of Reading for Multilingual Learners
🗓️ Sept 22, 2025 | 9am–2pm
📍 Cicero Community Center
Register: zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/li…
Membership: zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/64…
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Judge Blakey tells Madigan about a conversation he once had with the late Judge Harry Leinenweber about sentencing defendants.
Blakey says Leinenweber told him, "the day it's easy is the day you have to quit."
Blakey: "I'm not in danger of quitting today."
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This is exactly what intervention is supposed to look like!
Remarkable work, @mommagordon2.
TL;DR
After adopting @EBLIreads, @mommagordon2 has exited 26 students (!) from her intervention groups this year. 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Skeptical? She's got data to prove it. Read on 🧵
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◻️MINI-WHITEBOARDS! MWBs are the unsung heroes of the classroom. They boost participation, drive student thinking, and help you adapt your teaching in real time. Support my work by tapping REPOST and download this FREE one-page guide!
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Thank you, teachers, for your dedication to teaching our students & shaping our future.
#ValentinesDay #LoveTeaching
ALT Image of a red coffee mug filled with pencils on a teacher's desk; the mug reads "Teaching from the Heart"
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It’s a great night in @DGDistrict58! The students of Herrick and O’Neill put on an outstanding performance at the annual Festival of Music! Shout out to our teachers and performers for a wonderful evening of music! Special thanks to our hosts from @Dist_99! #dg58pride
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"Wow, we were part of something really big."
NEW information from Madigan jurors on how they reached their verdict, including the foreman, who said, "I thought Danny Solis is a piece of garbage.”
chicagotribune.com/2025/02/1…
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I hear the Madigan jury is lunching on buttermilk fried chicken, herb roasted potatoes, and mac and cheese today.
That's a food coma waiting to happen!
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The jury in Michael Madigan's federal corruption trial found the former Illinois House speaker guilty on several counts as part of a partial verdict. bit.ly/3WW4r20
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In literacy education, it’s common for writing to take a back seat to reading, says K-6 literacy coach Elana Gordon @mommagordon2.
“But one of the most powerful tools we have in literacy instruction is the reciprocity between reading and writing.”
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ALT 1-Minute Read. Literacy. 5 Ways to Include Writing in Reading Intervention, by Elana Gordon. Illustration of disembodied wrists/hands writing with pink and blue pencils, pens, and markers.
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‘Would You Rather’ is a popular brain break and icebreaker, but it can also serve as an assessment! Here’s how to use it to support higher-order thinking in any subject. 💭✨ edut.to/3TH3OaW
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So excited 2 have been able 2 speak w/ @rach_knecht about syntactic awareness & its impact on comp.👂🏻2 S3E3:The Importance of Teaching Students to Develop Syntactic Awareness w/Dr. Rachel Knecht⬇️ Such a knowledgable individual @D99Cicero @ReadingLeagueIL
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📘☕️ BOOK & MUG GIVEAWAY!
I’m giving away a copy of my book Teaching One-Pagers and this exclusive caffeine holder to fuel your evidence-informed practice!
To enter, simply REPOST this post.
🗓️ The winner will be picked randomly and announced on Monday, 30th September! Good luck!
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“Often, in literacy intervention work, we are so focused on improving reading outcomes that we can sometimes overlook students’ writing abilities,” @mommagordon2 says. These quick strategies build both skills at once. 📖✍️ edut.to/3XGAWC6
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📙 EXPLICIT INSTRUCTION! This new A3 poster captures some of the main ideas from the excellent book ‘Explicit Instruction: Effective & Efficient Teaching’ by Anita L. Archer & Charles A. Hughes. Highly recommend you pick up a copy!
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📙 READ MORE: explicitinstruction.org
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The success of a #StructuredLiteracy approach depends not only on WHAT you teach but also on HOW you teach.
The elements of a SL approach need to be taught using evidence-based strategies that maximize how the brain learns and, ultimately, student learning!
If you find yourself teaching PA, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, spelling or another element of a comprehensive literacy approach but the students just aren’t learning it, it’s time to dive into the #ScienceOfLearning.
Here are 10 strategies from 3 Star Learning experiences, shared by @C_Hendrick and @P_A_Kirschner :
3starlearningexperiences.wor…. #ScienceOfLearning #CognitiveScience
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📘 Highly recommend the book ‘Explicit Direct Instruction (EDI)’ by Hollingsworth, and Ybarra. The ‘TAPPLE’ acronym they introduce is ingenious for memorising their steps for Checking for Understanding. Take a look at this visual breakdown...
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The Road 2 Reading kickoff w/ 2 teens sharing their journeys w/dyslexia!
S3E1: buzzsprout.com/2292540/15630…
@KataSolow @LDechovitz @ksirach @ILEarlyLiteracy – at Long Grove, IL
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The Science of Reading Versus the Art of Teaching Reading shanahanonliteracy.com/blog/…
