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Erin Knudsen she/her🇨🇦🧡🌈 @teachthewholerope.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I’m excited to get back to summer and podcasts like reading-roadtrip.castos.com This weeks episode with Jen O’Sullivan was packed with great examples for teaching students inferencing skills! I’m looking forward to more from the Reading Road Trip!

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Reading Road Trip

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FULCRUM @fulcrumliteracy.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Powerful words from Executive Director Kareem Weaver to ground our work heading into the new year: “[Literacy] is the gateway to society, its institutions, and the basic opportunities that we want for all kids.” #Literacy is the fundamental #CivilRight of our time.

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Erin Knudsen she/her🇨🇦🧡🌈 @teachthewholerope.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I love this. It makes me think about an often frustrating attempt ensure a student produces what everyone else is producing rather than honouring what a student creates or learns at their level when they participate in the process. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IOG...

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Inclusion is not Assimilation: Understanding communities of identity and diversity

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Erin Knudsen she/her🇨🇦🧡🌈 @teachthewholerope.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

This week I got to talk with teachers about the importance of retrieval practice and maximizing opportunities to respond when teaching students who are struggling to learn literacy skills. Some useful strategies: … 1/n

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Erin Knudsen she/her🇨🇦🧡🌈 @teachthewholerope.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Systematic explicit instructiin and practice is not the only important part of teaching reading, but it is very important. New research published about UFLI- Foundations highlights the effectiveness of this phonics program. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

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Researchers Created a Phonics Program With ‘Dramatic’ Results. How It Works

Consistent implementation of the 30-minute-a-day program fueled the results.

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Erin Knudsen she/her🇨🇦🧡🌈 @teachthewholerope.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I’ve recently had some interesting conversations about spelling challenges. I’ve appreciated two podcast episodes from Melissa and Lori Love Literacy for practical ideas (episodes 191 with Pam Kastner and episode 192 with Savannah Campbell) literacypodcast.com/podcast?podc...

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Episodes | literacypodcast

Melissa and Lori Love Literacy is a podcast for educators interested in learning more about the science of reading, knowledge building, and high-quality curriculum! Join Melissa and Lori as they tackl...

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Ann Sullivan - Phonics for SEN @phonicsforsen.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

Another blog addressing a commonly asked question. This time I'm looking at how long we should teach phonics when learners have additional needs, especially a complex profile. www.phonicsforpupilswithspecialeducationalneeds.com/post/how-lon...

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How long should we teach phonics?

I really should start this blog with, ‘Another thing I get asked about a lot is…’ because this issue comes up time and again: timescale. Here in England, where daily phonics is mandatory as initial in...

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Dianne Murphy 📚 🇳🇿 🇮🇪 @diannemurphy.bsky.social · 25/11/2023

Sold a Story makes TIME Magazine’s Top Ten Podcast list 🥳 Congratulations to Emily Hanford who has done so much to highlight how so many children have been taught to read (but haven’t learnt) using ineffective methods. If you haven’t already, do find it and listen 🎧 time.com/6321143/best...

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Mrs. Pallone @mrspallone.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Love this teachers insight and personal experience! I think her experience resonates with a lot of teachers.

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Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · 07/12/2024

Why does the brain matter for education? New edition of BJEP has four papers which are very interesting. Made some notes, here's a quick 🧵⬇️

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Canadian School Psychology @schoolpsychcan.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Continued and stronger advocacy efforts are needed to promote recruitment in the profession. To find out more about school psychology in Canada, visit the CPA Section of Educational and School Psychology website: cpa.ca/sections/edu... Feel free to also message us here for more information.

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Emily Hanford @ehanford.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

“A product-liability case reaches beyond the secrecy of parents doing this over and over.” A new class-action lawsuit alleges that Heinemann and three of its top authors - Lucy Calkins and Fountas&Pinnell - promoted “deceptive” and “defective” products. www.apmreports.org/story/2024/1...

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Lawsuit calls reading curriculum 'deceptive' and 'defective'

A class-action lawsuit filed in Massachusetts claims that the educational publishing company Heinemann falsely advertised its products as “research-backed” and “data-based.”

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Canadian School Psychology @schoolpsychcan.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

There is a shortage of school psychologists across Canada. This is at a time where access to critical mental health services for children and youth is becoming increasingly problematic. Canada needs more visibility of the profession, recruitment, training opportunities and programs.

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Kate Lyon @katelyonpr.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I've been teaching for 25+ years, and it's only been within the last 5 that I was introduced to the hierarchy of evidence. I wonder how many programs and initiatives are promoted in #BCEd with little to no evidence. Is it a matter of who has the loudest voice & the largest platform? Hmm...

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Melanie Brethour @melaniebrethour.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

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Erin Knudsen she/her🇨🇦🧡🌈 @teachthewholerope.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

A brief introduction: I’m a Psychologist working in schools, Ph.D. in Educational Psychology; researched reading (morphology; comprehension monitoring). I love learning about developments in cognitive neuroscience, reading development, and instruction that can help teachers to help students.

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Melanie Brethour @melaniebrethour.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

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Erin Knudsen she/her🇨🇦🧡🌈 @teachthewholerope.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now: Lifeguard Swimming instructor Clown Art Leader Camp counsellor Education Assistant Tutor

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