"Our results suggest that word reading and spelling are one and the same, almost, but that spoken vocabulary knowledge is more closely related to reading than to spelling." Open article from the great Rebecca Treiman and colleagues. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

❓How can students build their stamina attending to text? 📢Bring reading back into the classroom! 🎧Catch Ep. 3 of the #KnowledgeMatters Podcast as Doug Lemov talks fluency w/ guests and get ready for Ep. 4 tomorrow…The power of whole books!🔋 🔗tinyurl.com/ynnhd8jd

The most common question I'm asked is "What else?" If not project-based learning and Dewey, what should teachers read? You've convinced me direction instruction works. So how do I do it well? Here are 5 resources to get teachers started A mini-🧵

"Since the mid-2010s, the gap between higher- and lower- performing students has consistently widened across subjects, grade levels, and demographic groups...The trend is too widespread to be dismissed as noise and too important to ignore." afterbabel.com/p/silent-achie…

Oh, man. We are going to learn SO many words this year!!! 🙌 Even if kids are fluent, if they are unfamiliar with vocab and morphology, they will still struggle with comprehension. Decoding and comprehension are separate skills, and knowledge of word parts is essential!

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Just stopped a new freshman touring ONW and looking a little nervous… asked him where he went to MS and who his fave teacher was: InTheMoneyStocks.com and Ms. Svatos. Fun to see the way he smiled when he said that.

Today was the BEST day! Our Instructional Coach team was able to help welcome over 200 educators to Olathe Public Schools!!! Can’t wait for next week!!

We’ve been thinking about MTSS all wrong. 🤯 “The pyramid doesn’t contain students—it contains our resources.” – Sarah Brown This shift in thinking can transform how you support struggling readers. Hear more in our newest episode! 🎧 🎧 Listen Now! ow.ly/VTfp50Wyw00

“This notion of trying to match kids to books and get everybody to their right level is, at the very least, wasteful. It's not benefiting kids.” ⁦Timothy Shanahan⁩ amplify.com/episode/scienc…

I get why a school leader would start the year by talking about high expectations, but it’s often empty talk. Start the year with behavior and explicit instruction, and specify teaching approaches to operationalize high expectations.

🔺“The pyramid does not contain students—it contains our resources.” – Sarah Brown This simple shift changes everything about how we support readers. Hear more from Sarah Brown on our most recent podcast episode! 🎧 Listen Now! ow.ly/jGcl50Wyw4k

A teacher shared her story today. She was a kid who had so many tough life things that could have caused her to quit school but she didn’t… she had a teacher who believed in her, had high expectations and held her to them. Can we stop making fun of “my why”?

This does seem self evident… After all, we know that people shouldn’t use their phone while they’re driving. Does anyone think that classroom activities are easier than driving?

"Perhaps one of the biggest threats that A.I. poses to education isn’t that it’s going to make educators useless, but that it is going to make educators so much more necessary than we are willing to invest in." Tressie McMillan Cottom on AI in ed, w/ Jessica Grose nytimes.com/2025/08/12/opi…

Reminder every year

Time is running out on this deal.

Look at this!! All students completing their homework assignment from me… must have a choice reading book with them at all times! Working on our reading fluency and comprehension!! 🙌

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