Kia Brown-Dudley: "Focus on those 'ordinary' moments as ways to create joy with your students in literacy." Message of keeping things authentic and grounded in students' interests and classroom community.
Doug Fisher: "Instead of talking about 'there is a loss', create a message around 'acceleration'." Danger in adopting a deficit mindset. Initial studies showing distance learning not leading to the gaps people are worried about.
Australian data showing there is a gap in writing. "We have focused on oral literacy due to the nature of distance learning." Doug encourages teachers to remember the reading-writing connection, flipside of the same coin.
Susan Neuman: "Sometimes I go into classrooms, and I am bored." Stresses importance of community, relationships, and the social-emotional aspect of literacy instruction (we can be too technical, skill focused).
Patricia Edwards: "Teacher needs to be taught how to work with families." Compares how professionals elsewhere (doctors, architects) are trained on engagement skills with patients, clients.
Lisa Forehand (principal): "When we get back in-person, we are going to welcome them properly and building relationships, even if mid-year." Rightly worries about the misguided attempt to immediately assess and group kids out of worry that they have missed so much time in the building.
Lesley Mandel Morrow: "The only other place where we deal with people in groups is the military." (call for more small group/personalized literacy instruction)
Lisa Forehand: "How do we grow and support biliteracy, we need consistent structures in place." Are we talking all students biliterate? If so, it seems like another call for renewal of curriculum.
Sonia Campbell: "Avoid separating the content areas from literacy instruction." This brings back curriculum integration, concepts I learned about in my college days in the 90s...
Kia Brown-Dudley: "Focus on those 'ordinary' moments as ways to create joy with your students in literacy." Message of keeping things authentic and grounded in students' interests and classroom community.
Doug Fisher: "Instead of talking about 'there is a loss', create a message around 'acceleration'." Danger in adopting a deficit mindset. Initial studies showing distance learning not leading to the gaps people are worried about.
Australian data showing there is a gap in writing. "We have focused on oral literacy due to the nature of distance learning." Doug encourages teachers to remember the reading-writing connection, flipside of the same coin.
Susan Neuman: "Sometimes I go into classrooms, and I am bored." Stresses importance of community, relationships, and the social-emotional aspect of literacy instruction (we can be too technical, skill focused).
Patricia Edwards: "Teacher needs to be taught how to work with families." Compares how professionals elsewhere (doctors, architects) are trained on engagement skills with patients, clients.
Lisa Forehand (principal): "When we get back in-person, we are going to welcome them properly and building relationships, even if mid-year." Rightly worries about the misguided attempt to immediately assess and group kids out of worry that they have missed so much time in the building.
Lesley Mandel Morrow: "The only other place where we deal with people in groups is the military." (call for more small group/personalized literacy instruction)
Lisa Forehand: "How do we grow and support biliteracy, we need consistent structures in place." Are we talking all students biliterate? If so, it seems like another call for renewal of curriculum.
Sonia Campbell: "Avoid separating the content areas from literacy instruction." This brings back curriculum integration, concepts I learned about in my college days in the 90s...
"Early literacy learning, starting at birth." (Did I hear that correctly?)
This moves education beyond the school walls. How does this look at the district/school level?