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Rachel Harvey retweeted
Please don't tell me your teaching methods and materials are culturally relevant, inclusive, or liberatory if they produce illiterate children. Just don't.
Rachel Harvey retweeted
We used to have public magnet schools that each had a different emphasis. I went to a science and engineering one. Then they got rid of them and now all schools are everything schools.
“We should start a leadership program.”
No we shouldn’t, we have way too many programs.
Rachel Harvey retweeted
Yes!!!! In other words like it has been said before: We can't intervene our way out of a Tier 1 problem.
Rachel Harvey retweeted
I respect people who love summer, but I don’t understand them. To me, summer is a thing to be endured, and fall is our reward for making it to the end.
Rachel Harvey retweeted
The cumulative nature of math is often underestimated. Beyond the points in the article, when we don't use instructional methods that are likely to work best for the majority of students, gaps widen. Also important: mastering concepts most likely to ensure success in later math.
the74million.org/article/ret…
Rachel Harvey retweeted
How did we get to where adult authority, phonics, explicit instruction, modeling, clear routines and consequences, all became anathema in education?
To me, this all makes intuitive sense, but such policies are cast off with “we all know that traditional instruction doesn’t work”
Rachel Harvey retweeted
Reflecting on my several years as a teacher, a recurring theme stands out: American schools often take on way too much.
Schools shouldn’t be the lone solution for all of society’s ills.
And when you take on too much, failure is inevitable.
Rachel Harvey retweeted
I saw this recently & my concern is that folks still don’t get that reading to or with a child WILL NOT make them a reader. It’s like saying playing piano for a child will make them a musician. BOTH need instruction. Just because they HEAR music won’t make them PLAY/READ music
Rachel Harvey retweeted
As much as I love rules and structure and really good learning behaviors….snarky and mean teachers and aides are not it. The kids respond in kind. Same w parenting or coaching or bosses.
Rachel Harvey retweeted
Stop doing icebreakers at PD.
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Rachel Harvey retweeted
One student can ruin the learning of an entire class and it’s just so unfair
Rachel Harvey retweeted
Very true. And also telling a parent you love having their kid in your class. Thank them for the opportunity. I've had parents burst into tears when they heard that.
@BenisonMrs @PeskyDyslexia @NationalParents @Parents4RJ @NationalPTA
Rachel Harvey retweeted
Math is hard for most kids… too hard. We need to make it easier by teaching the smaller problems that are inside of more complex problems to mastery. And we need to distribute the material over time so that “once it comes up it never goes away.”
Rachel Harvey retweeted
When your own child struggles at math, parents will buy workbooks and hire tutors and give them additional instruction.
When someone else’s child struggles, we mask it in a room full of vertical whiteboards and group assessment and label it “productive”.
Rachel Harvey retweeted
A k-8 school improved k-5 reading. The 6-8th teachers realized their materials, routines, "schtick", and professional identity were for non-readers. Many struggled and left.
We, the adults, may need to look at our relationship to children's struggles. We may be bound by/to it.
Rachel Harvey retweeted
If a student comes to you right now asking for all their missing work, the correct answer is “I don’t accept late work”
