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We’re excited to participate in this roundtable on a critical topic! #EarlyLiteracy #PreventReadingFailure
REGISTER | May 14: Fewer than half of California students are reading by third grade. Even fewer Black and Latino students meet that standard.
What’s standing in the way of ensuring all kids, including English learners, read by third grade? #caedu #caleg
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“I am worrisomely seeing in California that there is becoming more loyalty to past methods that have been shown to be ineffective for our most struggling readers. We can never put loyalty to past methods over loyalty to our children.” - Dr. Maryanne Wolf
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Speaking as a teacher, having a quality curriculum to implement means I can leverage my time to give specific feedback, intervene, examine progress, collaborate/reflect…
Don’t make us develop our own instruction. There are much wiser uses of our time and talent.
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We are grateful to #AB2222 author @AsmBlancaRubio , co-sponsors @DDCalifornia and @FamsInSchools, all of the bill's co-authors, and the many advocates who moved the important issue of early literacy forward (1/2).
#EarlyLiteracyMatters #RightToRead #ChangingPolicyChangingLives
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Speaking as a parent, if you honestly believe that making sure teachers have decent curriculum is evil, then your own kids aren't in public schools. Once you see what kids learn, and how widely it varies from classroom to classroom in the same building, you can never unsee it.
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Teachers deserve to be prepared with effective, research-backed training and curriculum. Students deserve a public education that guarantees their right to read. @AsmMuratsuchi, will you set a hearing for #AB2222?
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What a disappointment. It’s time for everyone to be rowing in the same direction and fight for what our students need and deserve.
SF Parents support #AB2222 📚
#literacyisacivilright
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Claude Goldenberg, a specialist on English Learner literacy, is one of the leaders speaking out to say that the bill absolutely advances the needs of ELL students:
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This misunderstanding about the needs of ELLs is really problematic. @AFTunion’s publications put pressure on @WeAreCTA’s assertions about ELL needs.
How do we close this understanding gap, @BeckyPringle? It’s really not a good look for CTA.
@rweingarten
@DDCalifornia
@meganbaci
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With only 4 in 10 third-graders reading on grade level it is time for comprehensive early literacy reform. #AB2222 (Rubio) is the best path forward to close the reading achievement gap in California.
Act Now: secure.everyaction.com/KzYEK…
#EarlyLiteracyMatters #RightToRead
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If I could do one thing in my life, it would be to help parents understand this.
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FINAL ACT 20 LITERACY UPDATE
🎆🎇🎇🎆Joint Finance Committee FINALIZES reading curriculum list with the highest-quality options! 🎆🎇🎇🎆
Amplify: Core Knowledge
Great Minds: Wit And Wisdom and Geodes and Really Great Reading
Open Up: Bookworms
Open Up: EL
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If you support teachers, make sure they have effective & efficient materials, training, site leadership, time to plan, and a healthy culture in the building.
Money matters, but all these
other things matter as well.
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Why CA should act now to follow Mississippi's lead on reading instruction; good oped by @DavidWakelyn #CAed @careads @edvoice @DDCalifornia edsource.org/2024/california…
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On the surface, adding letters to sounds might seem identical to teaching phonics... Researchers are concerned about an overemphasis on oral-only phonemic awareness in classrooms. hechingerreport.org/proof-po…
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CA, we have a lot to learn from other states when it comes to teaching reading:
OPINION by @DavidWakelyn: Mississippi's gains in reading achievement put its schools ahead of where they were before the pandemic. California's reading scores continue to fall. #caedu #caleg #capol #literacy
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Our students and educators deserve to be supported with the best possible methods of #EarlyLiteracy instruction. It's time to require evidence-based approaches to reading in all CA classrooms.
Learn more: californiakidsread.org
#SupportTeachers #CloseTheReadingGap #YesOnAB2222
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Selling products that create and exacerbate learning gaps, then lamenting educators inability to identify and fill those gaps... can only be done if you're detached from the collective impact. Or, if the dissonance is too great, point the finger at teachers' poor implementation.
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Over 50% of CA 3rd graders aren’t proficient in reading AND now new CA bill proposes to weaken teacher preparation in literacy!
SB 1263, sponsored by CTA, would reverse CA’s recent progress in ensuring teachers are prepared to teach reading. edsource.org/2024/cta-sponso…
