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Literacy Researcher & Advocate for Effective Early Reading Instruction & Reading Interventions, MSVU, Halifax, NS, Canada - personal account
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Had the opportunity to chat with the amazing @rastokke about teaching all our students to read - shout out to @LindaSiegel1 @profwool , strong advocacy & 🇨🇦 teachers! open.spotify.com/episode/15G…
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Only two weeks to go!
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Failing the Test Again: Why is Nova Scotia engaged in conducting student assessments? Nova Scotia AG reports it's unclear & likely a matter of "compliance." Student results are NOT used to improve student learning, teaching, or curriculum reform #cdned
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Nice to see Louisa Moats getting this recognition: profile in @TIME time.com/article/2026/09/23/…
AG report may be more optimistic than warranted. How many students had text read to them by a reader or AT—or, in writing, used a scribe? If students cannot decode the text, we have not taught them to be proficient readers.
Student Assessment Results: Nova Scotia spends $700K on provincial testing, administers 75,000 tests, then makes little use of the results. It's time for an Independent Sudent Assessment Agency to establish a semblance of accountability. @AvisGlaze
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Whatever book you pick up, it’s likely to make you feel better—maybe even a whole lot better. “In a secular age, I suspect that reading fiction is one of the few remaining paths to transcendence, that elusive state in which the distance between the self and the universe shrinks,” Ceridwen Dovey writes, in “Can Reading Make You Happier?,” which was published in 2015. Dive into the research behind the therapeutic effect of books: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Wv…
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A comment on my latest episode captures a big part of the reason kids are not proficient in math. A) Bad curriculum/program (in this case Illustrative Math) B) Administrators more worried about compliance than whether kids can actually do math.
The priorities are backwards.
Canadian Educators - Please partake in our study on Universal Reading-Screening in schools. Looking for K-3 teachers, interventionists, literacy coaches, admins, SLPs and psychologists working in schools. Click on the link to contribute - thanks!
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This is a must listen on math instruction with @rastokke . A discussion long overdue — our students have been pushed out of math for far too long! Starts at 46 mins.
cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-6…
“You don’t compromise between good instruction and poor instruction” @rastokke “Education belongs to kids…it’s their future we have to look out for.”
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Canadian students reading and math scores decline in OECD’s global assessment theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
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2/2 This is important. More Canadian students are struggling and fewer Canadian students are excelling. This started before COVID and it continues.
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1/2 My comments in the Globe & Mail this morning about Canada's declining math and reading scores. More to come.
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An important discussion; the tech takeover was not based on any evidence of benefits to learning—and students cannot make necessary yearly gains in reading, writing, & content area learning without lots of challenging texts to read. Education needs to put evidence over fads.
Children and Screens: My interview on "Screens Crowding Out Books" aired September 1/26 on Lethbridge @BridgeCityNews. Looks can be deceiving - what looks "old-fashioned" is actually cutting edge #techlash #cdned #ABed share.google/RzkesboOdwQcj8L…
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#rEDTO2026 few spots left. Get your tickets here.
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Thank you to @The_UKLA for this recognition — open access link here - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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#rEDTO2026
@smorrisey is joining us with an important & much needed session on Spelling instruction.
Get your tickets asap as we are close to being SOLD OUT!
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Date: Oct 24 • 09:00
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#rEDTO2026
Nope, we haven't forgotten about writing. There's a session on that too.
Join @LeslieLaud and #JacquelineaWylde
@researchEDCan @researchED1 @Educhatter @rastokke
Get your tickets before it's too late as we have limited spots left now.
Here: eventbrite.ca/e/researched-t…
New & free access🔖How dyslexia is defined matters for children, families, and schools. We argue for focusing on the word-level reading difficulty itself, not IQ, discrepancies, or cognitive processes—consistent with current research. doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.70214
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Does font improve reading in dyslexic children?: meta-analysis of dyslexia-friendly fonts and dyslexic children’s reading performance link.springer.com/article/10…
