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Jodi DeVries

@jodidevries.bsky.social
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Former teacher, now PhD candidate in Special Ed at the University of Alberta • Structured Literacy • Dyslexia • Evidence-based teaching and learning • Master’s in Mind, Brain, & Education @ Harvard GSE • Grateful to live on Treaty 6 territory

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Jodi DeVries @jodidevries.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
So great! Enjoy!
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Jodi DeVries @jodidevries.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
So glad you got to experience this beautiful part of Canada! Lots of lovely areas there - was just talking to someone about Oak Bay today.
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Jodi DeVries @jodidevries.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Image of the front page of an article, entitled "Self-directed learning journeys of Canadian teachers around the science of reading."
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Jodi DeVries @jodidevries.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Self-directed learning journeys of Canadian teachers around the science of reading New, from our team at the University of Alberta (@profwool.bsky.social, @lisakohel.bsky.social, @lheggie.bsky.social) Access the full article here: rdcu.be/ft4ZL
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Self-directed learning journeys of Canadian teachers around the science of reading
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Jodi DeVries @jodidevries.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Congratulations, Rachel!
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Jodi DeVries @jodidevries.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
👀
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Dan Willingham @dtwuva.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
New article from E. D. Hirsch and me on (1) the evidence for the importance of knowledge in reading; (2) why it’s taken so long for people to acknowledge the evidence; (3) what we predict if the role of knowledge is taken seriously. www.educationnext.org/rediscoverin...
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Rediscovering Knowledge as the Key to Reading
Two champions of knowledge-rich instruction reflect on its current momentum
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Jodi DeVries @jodidevries.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
ResearchEd is coming to Calgary in May. With these four anchor speakers and an additional collection of breakout speakers, it’s setting up to be a great event. www.eventbrite.ca/e/researched...
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researchED Calgary
Join us at North Trail High School in Calgary for a morning of exploration into evidence informed practice in Literacy and Mathematics.
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Jodi DeVries @jodidevries.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I just looked through the list of articles in this resource, and it looks like a great resource! It consists of short articles on a variety of topics, with more to come.
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Jodi DeVries @jodidevries.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
🎉🥳 Gotta take a moment to celebrate friends doing great things! I looked at this book today, and it’s a fantastic group of contributors for what looks like an excellent book! Great job contributing to accessible science, Emily! www.guilford.com/books/Handbo...
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Handbook of Learning Disabilities: Third Edition
This definitive handbook is now in an extensively revised third edition, including many all-new chapters and new topics. Foremost experts review the breadth of current knowledge about learning disabil...
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Jodi DeVries @jodidevries.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Congratulations, Nadine! So well deserved!
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Jessica Toste @jessicatoste.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Join us for our #WordConnections webinar series. We'll explore implementation of this research-based, targeted intervention to support students' reading of complex words! #TosteTeam #BigWords #ScienceOfReading 📅 Nov 13 + Dec 4 | 💻 Live Online 🔗 Register: tosteteam.simpletix.com
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Dan Willingham @dtwuva.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Why aren't practices based on research implemented in schools? @tomdee.bsky.social has insights, and ideas for change. www.edweek.org/leadership/o...
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High Quality Research Rarely Informs Classroom Practice. Why? (Opinion)
The connection between education research, policy, and practice is broken. Here’s what it would take to fix it.
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Jodi DeVries @jodidevries.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Oh, a new example of a synecdoche!
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Jodi DeVries @jodidevries.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
The Road to Running Records: A Narrative Review of Their History and a Systematic Narrative Review of the Evidence for Their Use Open-access. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/... #SOR
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The Road to Running Records: A Narrative Review of Their History and a Systematic Narrative Review of the Evidence for Their Use - Annie Unger, Tanya Serry, Pamela C. Snow, Tessa Weadman, 2025
In this paper, we employ both narrative and systematic review methodologies to explore Running Records, a reading assessment tool designed for use with children...
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Jodi DeVries @jodidevries.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
🎉🎉
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Jodi DeVries @jodidevries.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I just did my part!
Yellow voting sign
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Daniel Ansari 🇨🇦 @numcog.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Sneak peak of a project we have been working on for the past two years... We hope to release more information by the end of the year. Watch this space!
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Jodi DeVries @jodidevries.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Noooooo! Don’t stay strong. It needs you and you need it. It’s a perfect match.
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Jodi DeVries @jodidevries.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Beautiful photo! Those blue wings…😲
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Jodi DeVries @jodidevries.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Drs. @nsachdeva.bsky.social & Jim Hewitt share about classic studies in Education, starting w/ working memory & cognitive load theory @ #RedTO25. I was just discussing this w/ @numcog.bsky.social over lunch. I wish all teachers learned about this in their BEd training! It changed my teaching so much
Drs. Sachdeva and Hewitt in front of a slide about cognitive load theory. Drs. Sachdeva and Hewitt in front of a slide about implications of cognitive load theory.
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Jodi DeVries @jodidevries.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Great talk!
Dr. Ansari speaks, while a summary of his main points is on the slide behind him.
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Jodi DeVries @jodidevries.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Listening to @numcog.bsky.social share about automaticity of math facts. I’m always intrigued by the parallels between math and literacy in both robust research findings and common pushback arguments.
Dr. Ansari begins his presentation.
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Jodi DeVries @jodidevries.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
“When weak research drives decisions, students pay.”
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Jodi DeVries @jodidevries.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
At #redTO25, @j-metsala.bsky.social is delivering a great summary of the history of reading instruction and the alignment and misalignment with research along the way.
Dr. Jamie Metsala stands beside a screen, giving a keynote lecture under a massive stained glass window in a church at ResearchEd in Toronto.
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Jodi DeVries @jodidevries.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
It’s a first for me too, but it’s beautiful in here! I’m looking forward to meeting you in person at some point today!
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Anna Stokke (Host of Chalk & Talk Podcast) @rastokke.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
😲 In Manitoba, 7 in 10 teachers said either whole language or balanced literacy approaches are used to teach reading. Only 9% reported structured literacy as the most common approach. 60% of teachers & administrators said the current approach to teaching reading isn't working.
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Kathy Rastle @kathyrastle.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
What can children learn about morphology when they read for pleasure? We analysed the words in 1200 books suitable for children and young people to find out! Read the blog post here: www.rastlelab.com/post/what-ca...
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What can children learn about morphology from reading for fun?
A key part of becoming a skilled reader is understanding how words are built — that is, how small parts of words that carry meaning come together to form words. For example, the word unhappy is made u...
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Jodi DeVries @jodidevries.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
This webinar, with @mrzachg.bsky.social and @blakeharvard.bsky.social is sure to be great! And it’s free!
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Jodi DeVries @jodidevries.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
So sorry to hear, Nadine. This is absolutely devastating. Thanks for sharing updates like this. It’s important that those who are not currently part of the school to have an understanding of the very real implications. I wish you much strength and wisdom as you navigate the question of “now what.”
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Jodi DeVries @jodidevries.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Moment of appreciation for the bull bison alt text. 😂
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Jodi DeVries @jodidevries.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Congratulations, Darren! It sounds like the beginning of a lovely new adventure.
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Jodi DeVries @jodidevries.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Oh, Nadine, I'm so sorry that this is your present reality. I can't imagine how utterly devastating all of this must be.
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Dr. Nadine Gaab @gaablab.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
HELP! GaabLab has been supporting the #Dyslexia community since 2007. Now we could really use YOUR help due to recent funding cuts that threaten our lab's existence: We're looking for supportive foundations & collaborations, very grateful for any small gift community.alumni.harvard.edu/give/51711873
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a red heart with the word thank you written on it
ALT: a red heart with the word thank you written on it
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Superb thread about how Canadian federal elections work, in case you are wondering why your feed is chock full of Canuck politics tonight
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Great to see @pamelasnow.bsky.social here. Welcome!
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Jodi DeVries @jodidevries.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
FREE parent handbook on dyslexia from Dyslexia Canada.
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Jodi DeVries @jodidevries.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
🥇 Awe. These are important family memories in the making! Juggling both the mom hat and the researcher/professor/mentor/advocate hat the way you do is quite the feat.
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Remi Kalir @remikalir.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
ERIC! “ERIC is scheduled to run out of money on April 23. After that date, no new documents can be added.” Colleagues, this is catastrophic for educational research. www.governing.com/policy/major...
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Major Education Resource Set to Shut Down This Week
The federal Department of Education maintains an open access database of more than 2 million documents dating back to the 1960s. It will cease operating Wednesday due to DOGE cuts.
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The Reading League @thereadingleague.org · 03/04/2025
Have you ever felt buried under a mountain of assessment data with no clear path forward? We understand and are here to help with our brand-new class—Data-Driven Literacy Instruction: A Practical Guide to Assessment, Analysis and Intervention. 🔗 Learn more: www.thereadingleague.org/shop/data-dr...
New Class Data-Driven Literacy Instruction: A Practical Guide to Assessment, Analysis, and Intervention

Woman with long dark hair and glasses sitting at desk, analytically doing work at a laptop
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Anna Stokke (Host of Chalk & Talk Podcast) @rastokke.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
🚫 Labeling students as “hands-on learners” (or any learning style) can limit how they're taught, what they believe they can do, and what they actually learn. @carlhendrick.substack.com highlights new research exposing the harm caused by the learning styles myth. Link below.
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Jodi DeVries @jodidevries.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I finally got around to looking at the December issue of Nomanis. Looks like there are some great articles in there to bookmark for later reading. #SOR #ScienceOfReading www.nomanis.com.au/blog/issue-1...
Photo of the cover of Nomanis with the title "The Write Stuff: Focus on Handwriting."
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Jodi DeVries @jodidevries.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I listened to this quick (30 minute) webinar today. It offers some poignant reminders that we cannot neglect the oral language strand of the reading rope and provided some great summaries of what is known about effective reading comprehension instruction. #SOR www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBUL...
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Lessons From the Science of Reading | Education Now
YouTube video by Harvard Graduate School of Education
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Esther Lindström @estherlindstrom.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I just found out @cec-dr.bsky.social is on bsky! 🎉
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Cara Jackson @carajackson.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
All practice guides are in the public domain. Just in case... osf.io/dk4r5/
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IES Practice Guides
Storage of Practice Guides produced by the Institute of Education Sciences through February 2025 Hosted on the Open Science Framework
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Nichola Shelton @nichola-slp.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Great that @radld.bsky.social has joined!! Well worth a follow. #SLPeeps #BSkySpeechies
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Jodi DeVries @jodidevries.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
👀Looks like today is a very good time to download all of the IES practice guides! #EduSky ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/pra...
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WWC | Practice Guides
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Jodi DeVries @jodidevries.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Thanks for sharing! The writing course in our structured literacy grad certificate at the UofA begins next week. This was a timely read, and I’ll be sharing it with my students there.
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Rebecca Bollwitt @miss604.com · 03/02/2025
Added a few recommendations to this list of Indigenous businesses fo support in BC, from cafes and coffee to apparel and travel
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Buy and Shop Indigenous in BC
Support local when you purchase your goods, services, and experience from these Indigenous owned and operated businesses in BC.
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