Husband to Laurie and dad to Kari (Ross), Nick, Matt, and Josi. Proud to be superintendent at ADM Schools. Posts my own. Go Tigers!!
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The absolute kindest thing we can do for our children in schools, is to provide an environment for them that is safe, calm and dignified. Everything else flows from that.
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15 high school students had a great day at RRC Honor Choir today! They will be performing their concert in just a few minutes!
Greg Dufoe retweeted
The drop off between ES & MS is exacerbated by the fact that that’s when parents (rightly) perceive schools to become chaotic & dangerous. Want to keep parents in the system? Run safe orderly schools that protect learning environments.
Today my office has released a major new report on student enrollment in NYC.
We found that k-12 enrollment in our public schools has fallen by 187k since 2013, with a projected decline of an additional 128k students by 2034.
As total enrollment declines, NYCPS is serving a student population with growing needs. The number of students with disabilities is increasing. In the most recent school year, approximately 73% of students were in poverty and 14% were homeless or living in temporary housing.
Our report finds the drop in enrollment is driven by declining births and families with children leaving NYC, with a particularly notable drop in public-school enrollment as students transition from elementary to middle school.
These trends have massive implications for our schools that we have only barely begin to grapple with. My hope is that this report will spur a long overdue conversation about what the era of falling student enrollment means for NYC, and what we can do to reverse or slow it. 🧵
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Here's a beautiful video of Audrian McFarlane's kindergarten classroom, in which she has helped make following the teacher's direction a core habit for students.
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"Students expressed the urge to be forced to tackle classics they otherwise wouldn’t read, the need to combat frayed attention spans and the desire for an antidote to The Machine.
“A lot of what we get out of this class is the human experience,” said a government and neuroscience major “The only way to get anything out of this class is to not use AI.”
"At the core of the humanities is, of course, humanity...."
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Memory is the residue of thought.
One predictable, repeatable routine I use to make meaningful thinking unavoidable is a Stop and Jot after FASE reading a chunk of text.
Every student completes the same routine: pause, brain dump, write a gist statement, turn and talk, all hands up, cold call, revise gist statement based on discussion.
This routine gives every student a calm and quiet opportunity to process, think, and articulate what they’ve read. Its simplicity allows students to focus their thinking on the target details and learning object of the lesson rather than navigating a complicated task full of seductive details which they do not need to be thinking about. @SuzannahEvans2
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What do you do as a teacher in an era when students don't read outside of class & often struggle to read even in-class??
You can do as the @ncte suggests & "de-center" the text, abandoning reading books altogether & replacing them with short form videos & other dross.
Or you can do as Jaime Johnson does & "re-center" the text, reading a worthy book together as a class. When you do that you can curate the act of reading itself so it becomes a meaningful, rich, empathetic habit for students.
teachlikeachampion.org/blog/…
Greg Dufoe retweeted
This part is like a glass of fresh water. Critical thinking is the *outcome* of secure domain knowledge, not its replacement.
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In our latest Substack, learn how Formative Writing helps students discover what they think, unburden working memory, and build discussion confidence.
Try quick routines like Stop and Jots to elevate thinking in your classroom this week: hubs.la/Q04zM8Vw0
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The belief in transferable skills is perhaps the most common chimera among teachers of reading. Imagine a handful of universal tools we could teach students and in so doing enable them to understand every text they read. Who wouldn’t seek out “the key to all inferences,” for example, knowing that once mastered this skill would allow our students to unlock what was unspoken in every story? Who among us would not dream such a beautiful dream?
The problem is that for all the beauty of the dream, the evidence is squarely against it.
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Greg Dufoe retweeted
When a procedure becomes a routine it focuses student working memory on learning. When it becomes a visible predictable norm it motivates and shapes positive behavior.
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Want to understand a teacher’s practice? Ask “how” questions, not “why” questions.
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This is a topic I feel very strongly about. Not just reading but reading BOOKS... whole books... really matters. In this episode I discuss some of the research that supports it.
📆Tuesdays are for new episodes of the #KnowledgeMatters podcast!🎙️
📖 Improving literacy means increasing time spent reading. @Doug_Lemov talks about the importance of whole texts in the classroom!📚
➡️Check out Ep. 4 on your favorite streaming platform:tinyurl.com/ynnhd8jd
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Over at my Substack, I wrote about how teachers can subtly amplify signals of peer-to-peer approval after a student speaks in class & how seeing signals of peer approval is more likely to cause them to be comfortable engaging in scholarly work even than seeing signals of teacher approval.
Read more here: douglemov.substack.com/p/nor…
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One of the themes of The Teach Like a Champion Guide to the Science of Reading and a key a design principle of the Reading Reconsidered curriculum is the idea of re-centering the book.
Not only should students read great books cover to cover, they should read them together, in class, often aloud.
You can watch Jaime Johnson do that with her class here:
teachlikeachampion.org/blog/…
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In our latest blog post, see how re-centering the book drives vibrant discussion.
Watch Jaime Johnson use FASE Reading & Turn and Talk to keep text active in working memory: hubs.ly/Q04xTF5Y0
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"To ask or expect [novices] to mimic the intellectual habits of experts is the [a] cargo-cult mistake ... confusing the visible behaviors of expertise with the accumulated knowledge that makes those behaviors productive."
Outstanding @rpondiscio discussion of the relationship between knowledge and reading.
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