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Star Lab offers WORLD CLASS education in Sarasota, Florida - take a look at these brilliant scholars! This week our leader is competing for the Yass Prize in Miami, with the opportunity to win $1 million to grow our school model and serve additional families and communities. "Tell me what do you see... When you looking at me..." We see tomorrow's leaders! Let's invest in personalized elementary education to unleash amazing possibilities! Thanks to @YassPrize and @edreform for galvanizing the movement to support every parent in choosing the school that works for their child. And thanks to @TPAIN for the amazing song... #NothingButLove 🤩

This animation is crazy! As I was typing my tweet, this enormous arm popped up and blocked my screen! 😳

Sooo happy to hear this incredible conversations with such impactful leaders on one of my favorite podcasts! And such a thrill to hear Star Lab shouted out at the end! Our partnership with AIM has led to outstanding reading results for our kids, many of whom started with us virtually illiterate.

Soooo excited for this book to be in the world and for my copy to arrive! Not feeling photo-ready so my dog is filling in to pose. (Including the outtake, lol) @nsachdeva2019 is spelling it out - it is morally imperative for teachers to be experts. Let’s get to work!

There’s a lot of doom and gloom about the state of American education - but we choose to focus on the future! The Educational Avengers are taking on the Hydra, championing all kids and parents who know they deserve more. Read this book for inspiring stories of real-life heroes!

Star Lab is in the running for a $1 million prize - we are so grateful for the opportunity to share our story and grow our model! ❤️🚀🤩

Star Lab is honored to be included among this All Star roster! 🤩

Thank you to the entire Science of Learning community for sharing your knowledge so generously as we launched Star Lab in 2024. We are incredibly thrilled to announce that our microschool is now a contender for the 2026 Yass Prize! Star Lab will have an opportunity to work with the most innovative schools and leaders in the country and to compete for the $1,000,000 prize in October! Thank you to @ehanford , @AIMtoLearn , @Suchmo83 , @HollyLanePhD , @smorrisey , and @Doug_Lemov for giving us the tools to successfully teach our students to read where others had failed. Thank you to @MrZachG , @amandavande1 , and @rastokke for all of the math resources that have accelerated our students to and through the bar of grade-level proficiency. Thank you to my new buddy and mentor, @GTavernetti for the incredibly effective Teach FAST lesson plan template and to @natwexler for teaching us about Knowledge-Rich Curricula. Thank you to @researchED_US , @Steplab_co , and @Josh_CPD for helping us tie everything together with responsive coaching to get 1% better every day. There are so many people on X sharing so generously, and we want to assure you that your guidance is impacting many students, teachers, and families whom you don't even know. Thank you for elevating our profession and our practice. Thank you to @edreform and @YassPrize for creating this opportunity, on behalf of students and families everywhere. ❤️🤍💙

EVERYONE at Star Lab loves the Teach Fast lesson plan template! For our teachers’ first day back we practiced using the template to plan a first grade science lesson on the circulatory system. But sometimes we just hang out in a row, reading our books together. 😉 @GTavernetti

Starting the new school year with the amazing Word Mapping Project! Direct teacher quote, “I am SO PUMPED!!!” Can’t wait to see the kids’ pride as their vocabulary skyrockets! @smorrisey

I was an asst principal during Covid. Our district had a strict protocol of quarantining anyone within 6 feet of a positive case. I sent kids home for 2 weeks at a time constantly in 2020-21, upending their parents’ lives repeatedly. The guidance was so clear though, as I walked the halls with my tape measure and seating charts. Nothing we could do in the face of such clearcut science. I had a doctors appt that spring and I remember at the time my doctor (who I love and respect - totally brilliant and badass woman) saying, “We don’t have a quarantine protocol at our office, it’s sort of random” and I was so shocked because the schools had one that was so definitive. At the time I thought her office had dropped the ball and I couldn’t believe they didn’t know as much as our school health department. I talked to my dad that summer (a scientist) and told him about the 6-foot guidance and he actually said that it looked like 6 feet was a totally arbitrary number and the number could be as high as 20 feet - he said it seemed like people settled on 6-feet of distance because that is the most people would tolerate. It kills me to think of all the people who suffered needlessly during this insanity, and I hope I can remember to be more open-minded and analytical if something like this happens again.

We are training our new staff in the Word Mapping Project at Star Lab this Monday!!! Can’t wait to show them the resource and the navigation! 🤩

Chapter 1 (Prologue) of my campaign to get students to read the Odyssey this year! Catch their attention and load up prior knowledge by acting out each chapter right before they read it. The best version for students is Evslin’s Adventures of Ulysses. Try it this year!

TEACHERS! This is the year to read the Odyssey with your class! I highly recommend The Adventures of Ulysses by Bernard Evslin. I can get you a vocab/comprehension packet, but you have one job. You just need to schedule a live performance of each chapter before the kids read it. Trust me, they will LOVE THIS BOOK!

What a privilege to get to speak to one of my educational heroes, @GTavernetti ! Thank you so much for the opportunity to share about Star Lab, and our work to design a school from the ground up that works for kids who have previously been left behind.

The saddest thing is that an ambitious politician thinks the best way to elevate his profile and advance on the national stage is to present himself as a victim. And it is hard for someone with $500,000,000 in the bank to convince others they’re a victim in the USA.

Discovery learning is intuitively appealing but overall inefficient. Teachers MUST understand the best strategies to support accurate and long-lasting learning. Using late-season fruit to illustrate the difference between guided and minimally guided instruction. 😊🍑 @C_Hendrick @New_Old_Paul