Megan Gierka
@MeganGierka
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Research, translation, & implementation • Educator on a mission to eradicate illiteracy • All views my own
Pennsylvania
Joined August 2019
NEW PUB: Reframing dyslexia: language & linguistic complexity, developmental risk, and the future of SoR policy w/ @odegardtim @NicoleOrmandy Access here: https://t.co/Iw2XJphWeJ ⬇️ We recommend six policy shifts:
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Fact: "Reading diagnostic tests should be administered by the person who will be designing and implementing the intervention. A diagnostic assessment yields SO much more than a score, and if someone else is administering the assessment, the interventionist will be operating
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American education loves to embrace fads and nice-sounding initiatives over evidence-backed instruction and tried & true methods
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In my dream world, everyone with @mattyglesias’s platform would be discussing the nitty-gritty of reading instruction. I’m grateful to Matt for giving attention to these instructional issues in Slow Boring. K-12 education has solve-able problems, and we should focus there,
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A class of freshmen that cannot write a short paragraph with sentence frames provided Social promotion, self-esteem-first, always-make-things-easier education has failed a generation
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Girls weekend in Boston with the one and only @MeganGierka and of course we stumble upon the first public school in America ✨
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🧵An RTI/MTSS system will only be effective if our Tier 1/core/general ed instruction is aligned with the scientific evidence base and meeting the literacy needs of at least 80% of students. This exercise helps admins and teachers identify barriers to getting the most out of
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📣 Tomorrow, join AIM’s @MeganGierka & @NicoleOrmandy for a Phonemes & Graphemes webinar, hosted by the @DyslexiaIDA. 📅 9/17 ⏰ 6-7:15 PM ET Register: https://t.co/XDXApSLJUF
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The greatest skill America needs in the age of AI https://t.co/S8tKKzY7l1 via @PittsburghPG
#Literacy #PALiteracy #ScienceofReading #RighttoRead
post-gazette.com
With the recent and rapid rise of generative AI, you would be hard pressed to find a single industry not grappling with how to prepare for the future....
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"Paired texts" is not a great way of arranging an English curriculum, especially if both texts are new to the students. It's a recipe for cognitive overload. The interpretive work done on one text is not aiding in the interpretive work on the other; it is interfering with it.
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I just dropped 6 free morphology workbooks on Teaching by Science. https://t.co/VCsmOZUNMe Check them out and let me know what you think! I will be doing updates, so your feedback will help me improve them over time!
teachingbyscience.com
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The two most important words in all of learning science: Retrieval Practice.
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Research to practice gap Practice to research gap 🙄
Hard disagree. Actually, this is a great example of how researchers are great at finding stuff out but often completely out of touch with how that same stuff can or can't work in the real world.
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We have to treat reading as a matter of public health.
THREAD: Are we witnessing the End of Reading? A deep dive by The 74’s @gtoppo into why young people are abandoning books reveals a crisis that educators, scholars & publishers are beginning to take seriously. The stats are alarming... 👇
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When you are lucky enough to learn from @burnsmk1 @AIMtoLearn Missed the webinar? Not to worry-sign up for the recording #screener #literacy #untilallchildrencanread
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Results from the 2024 Nation’s Report Card (#NAEP) for grade 8 science and grade 12 math and reading are here. The last time students took these assessments was in 2019, prior to the pandemic and its disruption to education. https://t.co/LPizd0qTU7. (1/4)
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Olvidar es lo que nos permite priorizar, ver patrones y hacer que el conocimiento sea duradero. El pensamiento humano depende de filtrar, podar. El acto de olvidar despeja el espacio para que aparezcan patrones y se formen conexiones. @C_Hendrick
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The naive adoption of a new technology because of how shiny it is, is the drumbeat of education for an entire century. From interactive whiteboards to iPads, it’s been an expensive and repetitive waste of time. And it’s time more people in the sector said so. Wasting money is bad
Lot of debate about using AI in schools. It’s obviously got utility in context, but the current breathless enthusiasm is premature. I asked Grok what the time was in New Zealand right now and it got it wrong. Then it apologised and said ‘You’re right!’ when I pointed it out. I
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"A good leader takes the incoming churn and instability, settles the ball, takes a breath, creates some space and time where none exists, looks down the pitch and makes a smart decision about where to kick the ball next."
Brené Brown is bringing vulnerability and empathy to the C-suite, reshaping what leadership means in the AI era. Human-first workplaces might just be the new competitive advantage. https://t.co/QlZ2srmhqi
#LeadWithHeart
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@NateJoseph19 The distinction between sound-to-print and print-to-sound is immaterial as long as the phonics programme (a) is teaching phonemes in relation to letters (i.e. not oral only), and (b) includes plenty of spelling as well as decoding.
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