Dylan Kane @dylanpkane.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Yea that's what I see every time I look at data like this. Lots of noise, tough to see the signal. 010
Dylan Kane @dylanpkane.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Interesting to read your reflections! While I'm a big fan of strands and I've found similarly that students adapt just fine, I also haven't seen any massive increase in student learning. It's really hard to shift student learning! 110
Dylan Kane @dylanpkane.bsky.social · 05/02/2026I'm totally in favor of accommodations that help students learn, but in my experience sometimes an accommodation is decided in a meeting without the classroom teacher present and while it sounds helpful in that meeting, the reality is different. 020
Dylan Kane @dylanpkane.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Makes sense. I do think we need to be empirical with these accommodations. Some students with those diagnoses have said they prefer paper and are performing better on paper. Tech introduces costs as well as benefits. An accommodation that sounds good in theory might be unhelpful in a classroom. 210
Dylan Kane @dylanpkane.bsky.social · 05/02/2026I teach math so those are a bit different in my classroom. I find the best accommodation for dysgraphia is lots of white space on handouts. For dyslexia we offer read-aloud for word problems, but I find many students are able to be successful with scaffolds and well-structured practice. 130
Dylan Kane @dylanpkane.bsky.social · 04/02/2026what are the specific accommodations that come to mind for you? I'm a general ed teacher, and my experience is the fast majority of my special education students benefit from work on paper. Easier to show your work, fewer distractions. 110
Dylan Kane @dylanpkane.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Something I'm trying right now is pairing multiplication practice and division practice for a specific fact family. A disadvantage of flash cards is that each skill is isolated. I'm trying to help students build a rich, connected schema of math fact families. Looks like you're doing this too! 130
Dylan Kane @dylanpkane.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Would you consider using this approach? Sincerely curious, I find some people want to try it right away and for others it's a solid no. 000
Dylan Kane @dylanpkane.bsky.social · 29/09/2025I don't know, that feels like saying NAEP scores are impossible to improve. Are you saying, "there's this middle grades intervention (knowledge-rich curricula) that helps kids read better, but the results will never show up on NAEP? 100
Dylan Kane @dylanpkane.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Just did a very quick search and found this, most of the fadeout from preschool happens in K but some gains persist. But I would want to find a bunch more. www.mdrc.org/news/announc...mdrc.orgTwo Studies Provide New Evidence on the Pre-K Fadeout Phenomenon | MDRCPrekindergarten programs improve children’s kindergarten readiness. However, children who do not enroll in these programs tend to catch up to the academic and cognitive skills of their prekindergarten... 010
Dylan Kane @dylanpkane.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Good question, would be fun to explore. I have a vague memory of preschool washout being on the order of 4 years but I could be wrong. I agree it's a bit weird to find no sign of the 4th grade gains. Freddie's take is worth reading. freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/there-are-...freddiedeboer.substack.comThere Are No Miracles in Educationcan we please not redo the Waiting for "Superman" era of ed discourse? please? 100
Dylan Kane @dylanpkane.bsky.social · 29/09/2025this is a bit of a copout but the same reason all other education interventions (preschool, charter schools, etc) fade. There's some sort of very powerful regression to the mean in education. Except it's not regression to the mean, it's regression to demographics. 130
Dylan Kane @dylanpkane.bsky.social · 14/09/2025All fair points. I should listen to the podcast. Glad it made you think! 010
Dylan Kane @dylanpkane.bsky.social · 13/09/2025I also teach a lot of english language learners, so I see turn and talk as having intrinsic value of getting lots of kids talking, in addition to the learning value of rehearsal/retrieval/consolidation etc. 010
Dylan Kane @dylanpkane.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Key principles of getting turn and talk right: choose questions with a high success rate, keep it short, ask clear and specific questions, actively monitor. I think those are way easier than all the setup to get your class culture right for cold call. 120
Dylan Kane @dylanpkane.bsky.social · 13/09/2025I agree turn and talk is often used poorly. I'm skeptical it's harder to get right. First, there are fewer negative consequences for getting it wrong. Cold call done poorly can alienate students and turn class culture negative. Turn and talk can lead to off-task chatter but that's not as bad. 200
Dylan Kane @dylanpkane.bsky.social · 03/09/2025my take: skip-counting is the bridge from addition to multiplication. If students can't skip-count by 3s, when we try to teach 2x3=6, 3x3=9, 3x4=12 they are harder to remember. Skip-counting helps students connect those numbers to 3, connecting new multiplication facts to math they already know. 130
Dylan Kane @dylanpkane.bsky.social · 22/04/2025thanks! Is the novel good? I've been reading too much nonfiction recently, I'm looking for a good novel. 100
Dylan Kane @dylanpkane.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Some classroom management thoughts: fivetwelvethirteen.substack.com/p/get-studen...fivetwelvethirteen.substack.comGet Students Thinking, Consequences EditionWe learn what we think about 010
Dylan Kane @dylanpkane.bsky.social · 08/04/2025"Just Enough" word problems: fivetwelvethirteen.substack.com/p/just-enoug...fivetwelvethirteen.substack.com"Just Enough" Sets of Word ProblemsStudents learn what they think about 040
Dylan Kane @dylanpkane.bsky.social · 06/04/2025A little theory fivetwelvethirteen.substack.com/p/a-little-t...fivetwelvethirteen.substack.comA Little TheoryQuick thoughts on adult learning vs student learning 030
Dylan Kane @dylanpkane.bsky.social · 01/04/2025A fun problem: fivetwelvethirteen.substack.com/p/a-fun-prob...fivetwelvethirteen.substack.comA Fun ProblemYou can do a lot with a piece of paper 021
Dylan Kane @dylanpkane.bsky.social · 25/03/2025The motivation fractal: fivetwelvethirteen.substack.com/p/the-motiva...fivetwelvethirteen.substack.comThe Motivation FractalSuccess leads to motivation 010
Dylan Kane @dylanpkane.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Do Nows fivetwelvethirteen.substack.com/p/dos-and-do...fivetwelvethirteen.substack.comDos and Don'ts of Do NowsDon't do too much...now 040
Dylan Kane @dylanpkane.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Patience: fivetwelvethirteen.substack.com/p/patience-59bfivetwelvethirteen.substack.comPatienceThe joys of middle school 161
Dylan Kane @dylanpkane.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Videogamification of learning: fivetwelvethirteen.substack.com/p/videogamif...fivetwelvethirteen.substack.comVideogamification of LearningThe costs of learning from a screen 082
Dylan Kane @dylanpkane.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Break it down: fivetwelvethirteen.substack.com/p/break-it-d...fivetwelvethirteen.substack.comBreak It DownAn example 240
Dylan Kane @dylanpkane.bsky.social · 18/02/2025A rant about the factory model of education: fivetwelvethirteen.substack.com/p/dont-talk-...fivetwelvethirteen.substack.comDon't Talk to Me About the Factory Model of EducationAnd a bit of a rant about lazy thinking in education 062
Dylan Kane @dylanpkane.bsky.social · 11/02/2025A post on preteaching: fivetwelvethirteen.substack.com/p/the-power-...fivetwelvethirteen.substack.comThe Power of PreteachingDon't play catch-up, preteach instead 131
Dylan Kane @dylanpkane.bsky.social · 04/02/2025A nice worksheet: fivetwelvethirteen.substack.com/p/a-nice-wor...fivetwelvethirteen.substack.comA Nice WorksheetMy annual-ish post where I argue that giving students pieces of paper with math problems on them is good 142
Dylan Kane @dylanpkane.bsky.social · 29/01/2025I'm not sure but I think I favor process-oriented leadership, while making sure there's a place for teacher autonomy. The process would be, ie, giving teachers time to analyze data and make a plan for intervention, but less focus on filling out a template and more autonomy for what teachers do next. 100
Dylan Kane @dylanpkane.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Yea I see some of that. I wonder how much is driven by the messages teachers hear from school leaders. Not intentionally, but when all leaders seem to care about is following the behavior matrix or whatever, that can drive those justifications. 020
Dylan Kane @dylanpkane.bsky.social · 28/01/2025My impressions are pretty anecdotal. I would say yes but I also see it as part of a long-term trend. I'm not convinced it's increasing because of the pandemic, so much as it's increasing because of a longer arc toward tight coupling and accountability. 100
Dylan Kane @dylanpkane.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Soulless teaching: fivetwelvethirteen.substack.com/p/soulless-t...fivetwelvethirteen.substack.comSoulless TeachingWhat it is and where it comes from 214
Dylan Kane @dylanpkane.bsky.social · 24/01/2025thanks! We have no shortage of ideas about how to improve education. The crux is often in the details and the execution, that's my favorite kind of innovation. 000
Dylan Kane @dylanpkane.bsky.social · 24/01/20253 - I want to emphasize that you don't have to be special to apply for this. I'm not. I don't have particularly great test scores, I'm not the most well-liked teacher in my school, etc. I felt a lot of imposter syndrome through the application process and I'm trying to articulate why. 120
Dylan Kane @dylanpkane.bsky.social · 24/01/20252 - I spend most of my time thinking about very practical, everyday parts of teaching. How to explain ideas well. How to sequence topics. How to build conceptual understanding. How to structure effective practice. Explorations are part of what I do, but only one small part. 120
Dylan Kane @dylanpkane.bsky.social · 24/01/2025By regular teacher I mean a few things. 1 - if you walk into my classroom on a random day, you probably wouldn't guess I won this prize because I spend most of my time doing things that don't look like a Rosenthal lesson. 120
Dylan Kane @dylanpkane.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Reflecting on explorations in math place, and something called the Rosenthal Prize: fivetwelvethirteen.substack.com/p/exploratio...fivetwelvethirteen.substack.comExplorations in Math ClassQuality over quantity 8196
