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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Powerful opening addresses at @researchEDCan from @OntHumanRights Chief Commissioner Patricia DeGuire and @KJWinEducation ! There is work to be done to teach every child to read & to realize the 157 recommendations from the @OntHumanRights Right to Read report.
A through-line to Anita Archer’s talk: evidence based practice resides at the convergence of the Sciences of Literacy & Math, the Science of Learning, & the Science of Instruction. @researchEDCan
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Three Books That Matter: UK Schools Minister Nick Gibb identifies three books that sparked the English school system reforms, ED Hirsch (1996), Dan T Willingham (2009), Daisy Christodoulou (2014). All were popularized by @researchED1 and informed the reforms #rEDTO2026 #cdned
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@NickGibbUK presents the research on systematic phonics and its role in the reforms of the English education system
First MEd Lit-Science of Rdg cohort graduated @MSVU_Halifax These 18 teachers learned together for 2 yrs & are translating research into practice every day for their students & supporting peers to do the same; an incredibly dedicated & talented group — professors feeling proud!
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ResearchED Toronto Agenda!
Here's the agenda and an interactive guide to #rEDTO2026
@researchEDCan @tombennett71 @researchED1
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You can listen to the first two episodes of the new season of Sold a Story today.
We also have things for you to watch.
Who was Zig Engelmann?
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Only two weeks to go!
@researchEDCan @researchED1 @JimHewittOISE @Educhatter @rastokke @JamieMetsala @KJWinEducation @Ready4rigor @NickGibbUK
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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.
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“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…
