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Dr. Mary Howard

@drmaryhoward

Speaker. Author. Learner. Passionate devotee of literacy, lifelong learning & joyful teaching! #G2Great chat bit.ly/30; Blog literacylenses.com

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ā€œthere can never be a program ā€œproven effectiveā€ since teaching and learning to read are quite complex and dependent on individual student strengths and challengesā€¦ā€

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Regardless of your beliefs, EVERYONE who cares about education and how we approach literacy should listen to this remarkable presentation by Dr. Catherine Compton-Lilly "The Science of Reading is NOT settled." youtube.com/watch?v=LG67To…

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MUST SEE free session Paul Thomas ā€œThis constant parade of new standards and new tests have not helped anybody except the people who run for office and the companies that sell materials to address these standards and this testing." a4pep.org/manufactured-c…?

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It truly is baffling Paul. The continued utter misrepresentations of numbers to justify L another crisis is yet again wasting time money and energy

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And yet just keep accelerating testing and placing undue faith in the results - further blinding us to what kids bring to the table

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Please listen to Regie Routman's incredible discussion: ā€œI think of curriculum as conversation. The conversations we have, the questions that kids formulate, that we formulate – the level of conversation that goes on really determines the depth of the learning that goes on.ā€

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MUST LISTEN/SHARE Interview With Elena Aydarova About the Science of Reading and the Reading Wars ā€œthere's a narrative that has been sold to the American public and policymakers. There's a literacy crisis because teachers do not teach the science of reading because they were

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Elena Aydarova About the Science of Reading "Emily Hanford's PO podcasts are recorded in ways that really create emotional responses, and it is normal to feel emotions, but I think we really need to be careful about how our emotions being used for someone else's agenda."

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Elena Aydarova About the Science of Reading "Our teachers deserve autonomy, and our teachers long for the opportunity for their voices to be heard in policymaking processes. And unfortunately, what SOR bills are doing is both demonizing teachers and excluding them from any

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I’m forever grateful to Dr. Paul Thomas for giving us the resources that question and counter the science of reading movement Paul Thomas ojed.org/JSARD/article/…

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Please read/share by Paul Thomas Paul Thomas ā€œThe problem here is not ā€œscience,ā€ but who controls what counts as science and how ā€œscienceā€ is used as control.ā€ radicalscholarship.com/2025/06/04/who…