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One of my biggest frustrations in education is when I’m told to “meet students where they’re at.”🤦‍♀️ Instead, I prefer to “get students to where they need to be!” Currently, there are massive achievement gaps in mathematics, and many teachers don’t have the support, resources,

It was an honor to speak at the National Press Foundation earlier this week. But now see that 1) I need one of those warm-toned ring lights and 2) I need to tidy up my home office!

Melanie Henry 🙋🏽‍♀️📚🛼🤞🏽 Timothy Shanahan This is a fantastic article! I am just completing an intervention program with gr. 7 students, and it has been overall a huge success, partly due to the fact that there was a focus on developing word recognition!

Should Reading Be Taught Whole Class or Small Group? shanahanonliteracy.com/blog/should-re…

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“I would never organize my instruction with the purpose of providing daily small group time, per se. In fact, I would try to minimize my reliance on small group teaching whenever possible.”

Yes!!! And again, YES!

Let’s shift professional development to support growing skills around effective whole group instruction! The work is worth it…

I see a lot of classrooms still planning their literacy block around small groups based on what they used to do under other types of curriculum. If you still have teachers that think planning must revolve around small groups and rotations, you might want to share this with them!

My watchword is “never do with a small group what you could do just as well with whole class teaching.”

Timothy Shanahan Sharing this with everyone I know, Tim! For years, we’ve been told by our top leaders in Central Office that reading AND math should be taught through centres & a significant amount of PD & money bolstered this philosophy. It never made sense to me!

👉”My watchword is “never do with a small group what you could do just as well with whole class teaching.”

Will be teaching the CT class next year and my coteacher and I have already had this disagreement... Prioritize whole group instruction or small group instruction. I am more whole group because of dosage! Way more time spent engaged in reading vs not.

Explicit instruction…I do, We do, You do.

Dee Timothy Shanahan Same, I will be using this line come September when I try to explain why we need to shift for to whole group instruction for reading and math!

Interesting take

I SO AGREE! Volusia County Schools Citrus Grove Elementary, Deland FL

This quote .. ‘My watchword is “never do with a small group what you could do just as well with whole class teaching.” #RiseWithReading Horry County Schools

Some things to consider

What an embarrassment for the SAT to radically reduce passage length. The ability to sustain focus on & make meaning from longer text is an indicator of achievement & likely college success. Simplistic text erodes any differentiating factor for those kids who actually do take the