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Unapologetically advocating on behalf of SF public school students. #SFKidsCantWait @sfparents.bsky.social
San Francisco, CA
Joined October 2020
✔️Decision-Making Framework Advances: New draft clarifies which decisions are Board vs. Superintendent-led. ✔️New Community Engagement Committee Launching: Commissioner Alexander to lead Ad-Hoc Committee on Progress Monitoring—first meeting Nov. 6. ⤵️
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10/28 @SFunified BOE Meeting Headlines ✔️KIPP Renewal Approved: BOE renews KIPP Bayview ES & College Prep ✔️Curriculum Adoption Lags: SFUSD is off track on adoption of K-8 literacy & math programs ✔️Instructional Gaps: Pres Kim questions lack of coaches at middle and highs ⤵️
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The slashing and burning of the federal ed department places “an urgent responsibility” on states to collaborate, R.I. Supe @AInfanteGreen said of the new @HarvardCEPR project
the74million.org
A new Harvard University initiative aims to address the nation’s ‘crisis moment in education’ in areas from cell phone use to chronic absenteeism.
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Dyslexic kids have a right to learn to read. This film explains and shows moms protecting that right. https://t.co/PLFMizimsH
@KellyClarksonTV @kellyclarkson
@NationalPTA @NAACP @hwinkler4real @MagicJohnson
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Get tickets for the virtual screening of Left Behind
In celebration of Dyslexia Awareness Month, you can watch Left Behind for FREE 10/24-11/11! Left Behind tells the story of 6 tenacious mothers determined to establish the first public school in NYC for children w/ dyslexia. #LeftBehindFilm 🎟️ 👇🏽: https://t.co/csqo6y9P5N
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"illiteracy and incarceration are big business." A former prisoner, but now a free man, advocate, author, and Emmy nominated actor is known as The Prison Coach for his ongoing work with incarcerated men. https://t.co/OiT2nnXoTw
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In a new manifesto, a prominent literacy scholar explains why a popular method for teaching reading in elementary and middle schools is failing children and tamping down reading achievement. https://t.co/VVqrIZvxss (1/4) 🧵
hechingerreport.org
In a new book, researcher Timothy Shanahan argues that giving students easy texts is holding back US reading achievement
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It's national #LightsOnAfterschool Day! Lights On Afterschool draws attention to the many ways afterschool programs support children, youth, and families, and sends a powerful message that millions more children and youth across the country need quality afterschool programs.
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Great time at the @SFDemocrats gala tonight! Public education should be issue #1 in SF. Thriving cities have thriving schools
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So much fun at @SFDemocrats tonight. And BTW, in case you were listening, and in case you weren’t paying attention a few years ago, it was @sfparents and @sfguardians who flipped the school board to kids-first leaders…
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Commissioners Alexander & Fisher are right. The abstract nature of the current #SFUSD #school board discussion is EXACTLY why parents & other stakeholders’ input need to be included FIRST. @ppssf @SFParents @TheVOSF
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Nine months after being elected by his colleagues to lead the San Francisco Board of Education and over a year after being appointed to office by Mayor London Breed, school board President Phil Kim...
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1of5 Schools challenge have never been lack of talent or compassion. It's a lack of focus, trying to fix everything, please everyone, and manage appearances rather than performance. Systems don't fail because of external pressure; they fail when insiders forget what the work is
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Can't blame teachers for being anti-curriculum when it doesn't come with actual books or evidence of results... that doesn't pass their sniff test. Rubrics, Blueprints, Roadmaps, Frameworks, or "green ratings" wont change that.
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In S.F. some called it “learning change” because they couldn’t stare learning loss in the eye and admit wrongdoing.
What did $200 billion in federal Covid money for schools buy? Partial but incomplete learning-loss recovery, according to two new studies.
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ICYMI: New study finds that students who do high-intensity interval workouts prior to taking a test score far better on verbal comprehension https://t.co/s9x9Am4RwJ
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Links between hunger and learning are clear. This federal food program helps child care providers feed children, supporting their capacity to learn https://t.co/cV3mvLKptK
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Here's the state of play between Waymo and The City’s public schools.
sfexaminer.com
Yes, but it’s complicated.
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Change happens best when backed by community. Otherwise, school systems change with the wind.
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Someone wanna tell Maryland….?
"I wanted to flag a major undisclosed modification in your new math standards... Maryland will be one of only 14 states that does not require students to know their times tables..." Todd's comment points out Maryland's justification for this update: MD cites "the Lucy Calkins of
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Commentary: California's public schools have struggled to improve test scores in recent years. A return to phonics instruction could turn the tide on reading, a move that comes as many schools overcome pandemic-era absenteeism. https://t.co/ijcUCVxScx 📝 @DanCALmatters
calmatters.org
A return to phonics instruction could turn the tide on reading, a move that comes as California schools overcome pandemic-era absenteeism.
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