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Considerations regarding ethics and rigour in Educational Action Research with NEARI. #EdChatIE #ESAI2025

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Ireland is in serious danger of similar (or worse) levels of teacher attrition due to workload and burnout in the not-so-distant future. #EdChatIE #ESAI2025

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Ireland is in serious danger of similar (or worse) levels of teacher attrition due to workload and burnout in the not-so-distant future. #EdChatIE #ESAI2025

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Keynote from Clare Brooks of Cambridge University on ITE Practice… should we look to England for guidance? #ESAI2025 #EdChatIE

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Niamh Watkins on DEIS literacy initiatives…this one is right up my street. Anyone who knows me, knows why! #EdChatIE #ESAI25

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Next, Ursula Murphy on intercultural education in Junior Cycle English. Again, much work needed here, particularly in terms of diversifying the teacher workforce. #EdChatIE #ESAI25

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Lorraine Chadwick brought some fascinating insights from the voices of students undertaking CBAs in the Junior Cycle. As a parent of two teens, this was very interesting. Much work needed here! #EdChatIE #ESAI25

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Dee @playfulclassroom.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Come along with me for day 2 of the @esai-irl.bsky.social conference and some dreadful tea in Athlone. (Hotels, please up your tea game. You could dance a donkey on this.) #EdChatIE

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Looking forward to this! I recognise many names on the schedule… good luck all! #EdChatIE

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Dee @playfulclassroom.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The level of detail is phenomenal! Glad you enjoyed it.

Emma Farragher @emmajf.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

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I am ✨sat✨ and so excited @playfulclassroom.bsky.social @treasabowe.bsky.social 👩🏻‍💻 👏

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Emma Farragher @emmajf.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

The Literacy Association of Ireland’s biannual publication ‘Literacy News’ is ready to read now! Lots of fabulous insights, ideas, and inspiration for sparking (/maintaining!) the joy of reading Please do share with anyone who might be interested ✨ #EdChatIe 💜 📖 👉🏻 heyzine.com/flip-book/74...

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Dee @playfulclassroom.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I fear you may be right, Ciara. There’s no way they can work through the waiting lists without delegating the work to another sector…

Dee @playfulclassroom.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Excellent webinar this evening with @suchmo83.bsky.social with practical strategies for reading lessons that are grounded in up to date research. More of this please @clanavtra.bsky.social ! 👏🏻 #EdChatIE #PrimaryReadingSimplified

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.

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Mme Lockhart @mmelockhart.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

“Should we build a fence at the top of the cliff, or should we put an ambulance at the bottom?” Right now, we’re seeing far more ambulances than fences in our school districts…🚑 podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/s... @ehanford.bsky.social #ScienceOfReading #PupsAndPodcasts

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Dee @playfulclassroom.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

🧵 9/n Facts

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Thanks for sharing, Michelle!

🧵 10/10 Gilleece and Clerkin from the Education Research Centre (ERC) have called for a an ‘appropriate evaluation’ of RR in Ireland. “The long-term impact of RR on students’ reading test scores in 3rd and 4th grades is statistically significant and substantially negative.” (May et al, 2024)

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🧵 8/n Some recommendations that could improve the efficacy of Reading Rec, such as: •adopting a scope and sequence for teaching letter-sound correspondences. •providing more explicit instruction in phonemic awareness and phonics. •including decodable texts instead of relying on non-decodable texts.

🧵 7/n “The results… suggest that Reading Rec may not be an effective approach for supporting struggling or dyslexic readers. Short-term outcomes were negligible, and some longitudinal data indicated that students who received RR instruction performed worse over time compared to those who did not.”

🧵 6/n A recent meta-analysis by Hansford and colleagues (2024) examined 19 experimental studies of Reading Recovery. A mean effect size of 0.19 was found. This is considered small. The authors noted:

🧵 5/n “Students who participated in Reading Recovery scored about one-half to one full grade level below the state test scores of similar students who did not participate in Reading Recovery.”

Thread 🧵 4/n What does the research say? A large-scale, longitudinal study of Reading Recovery was conducted by Henry May and colleagues in the 2010s. Assessment data was collected on thousands of students as they progressed from first grade to fourth grade. Here’s what they found:

🧵 3/n There are some aspects of RR that are effective, but unfortunately, these are not enough. A complete overhaul is needed to bring it up to date. In New Zealand, the home of RR, the Minister for Education decided that this overhaul was too much, and instead, it has been completely dropped.

🧵 2/n When RR was developed in the 70s, it was revolutionary. The idea of providing such intensive intervention for individuals was quite new. Clay’s theories were just that - theories. RR hasn’t changed since the 70s. The same assessments, lesson elements, and prompts are still being used in 2025.

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