
Emily Boatright
@emilyboatright
Mother. Wife. Educator.
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14-12-2011 01:13:14
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Teaching kids to escape from emotion, instead of meeting core needs like literacy, leaves them smiling, silent… and struggling. Full Ep on 7/16. Karin Maria Hodges, FULCRUM, Parents for Reading Justice

Prioritizing social emotional strategies to help kids self-regulate, but ignoring the cause of the pain (illiteracy, dyslexia, etc), is so gangster. What if we "took the nail out" as a start. tinyurl.com/illiteracyNail. Beanie Charles Sumner Karen Vaites FULCRUM Parents for Reading Justice




“What’s our most important problem, and how do we solve it?” For many districts, the answer was clear: most teachers hadn’t been trained in evidence-based reading instruction. MariettaCitySchools shows us how to do it right: start with teacher training! 👏📚




One secret to Steubenville’s reading success? Nearly every child gets full-day preschool—free or close to it. 80% attend. Kids speak in full sentences, get read to daily, and show up to kindergarten ready to learn to read. This is what early literacy looks like! Emily Hanford


