Ep.83-Designing a Classroom Environment to Maximize Learning

Send us a textPlease Support Our Show❤️https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=88DP4YMVETHFQAdvertise with us:https://theliteracyview.com/contact/Join our Facebook Group✅https://www.facebook.com/share/g/msdoTSwSiQvbtUW9/?mibextid=qtnXGeEmail us: [email protected]’s Book Links-https://a.co/d/5bv8AdEhttps://a.co/d/50d2qWZThe One About…Teachers Who Speak Up are Written Up: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished This Breaking News episode is a result of our last episode on Badass Moms and their Teens! YouTube Link is here:https://youtu.be/SR0lO0osKqY?si=qzR-EmT1OT-0FUuT Article:Letter to the Editor in the Muddy River NewsBlaming Parents, Teachers, Students, or Pandemic Isn’t Solution to Low Reading Scores in Quincyhttps://muddyrivernews.com/opinion/letter-to-the-editor-blaming-parents-teachers-students-or-pandemic-isnt-solution-to-low-reading-scores-in-quincy/20240715060000/ Special Guests **Dawn De Lorenzo Bio:I am dual-certified general and special education teacher with 24 years experience. I have taught students from PreK through Grade 8. The majority of the students that I have served throughout my career had language-based learning disabilities such as dyslexia. I am a CERI Certified Structured Language Teacher. I have my MA in Curriculum and Instruction and my Ed.S. in Education Leadership, Policy and Management.  Last year, I was a Teacher Leader Policy Fellow with JerseyCAN and worked to champion several policies to strengthen literacy in New Jersey. JerseyCAN awarded me with an Excellence in Advocacy Award for my work.  I was second place in Nessy's 2024 Teacher of the Year Dyslexia Awareness Award. This year I started my own tutoring business, Lighthouse Literacy Solutions, where I can serve students and their families' needs without all of the red tape that entangles educators in public schools today. Website:https://lighthouseliteracy.tutorbird.com/lighthouseliteracynj.tutorbird.comEmail: [email protected]: https://x.com/DeLorenzoEdSLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawndelorenzo/  Sherri Lucas-Hall BioSherri worked in a Georgia school district for 14 years, 4 years as an after-school teacher/ paraprofessional/substitute and 10 years as a classroom teacher for grades K/1. Sherri began studying the science of reading after discovering and listening to Emily Hanford’s APM podcast entitled Hard Words in 2018.She Screen DeepA podcast decoding young brains and behavior in a digital world.Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the showThe Literacy View is an engaging and inclusive platform encouraging respectful discussion and debate about current issues in education.

Send us a textPlease Support Our Show❤️https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=88DP4YMVETHFQAdvertise with us:https://theliteracyview.com/contact/Join our Facebook Group✅https://www.facebook.com/share/g/msdoTSwSiQvbtUW9/?mibextid=qtnXGeEmail us: [email protected]’s Book Links-https://a.co/d/5bv8AdEhttps://a.co/d/50d2qWZThe One About…Badass Moms and Their Teens: Adolescent Literacy Kickoff!Real MomsReal TeensReal IssuesStraight Talk No BS!Our special guests turned lemons into lemonade! Article:Not-So-Great Expectations:Students are Reading Fewer Books in English ClassApnews.comhttps://apnews.com/article/books-reading-high-school-english-class-c8d9f39773268a6e8c79cb0b3c78d3c1 Stacey Klein and MaxStacey Klein is a fierce parent advocate who took on Minnesota’s most affluent school district to fight for her son’s right to learn to read. Her son completed 3rd-grade with a Kindergarten reading level. Without her advocacy and intervention, he was on a trajectory to finish 12th-grade reading at a 4th-grade level. Stacey's family navigated years of delays, denials, a due process hearing, and federal lawsuits in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, ultimately costing them $300,000 in educational and legal fees. Despite the district’s appeals, her son received all of his court-ordered services, worked hard, is now reading at grade level, and is on track to graduate with his peers. Today, Stacey relentlessly advocates for students with learning disabilities like dyslexia, committed to ensuring no family has tofight the same battle her family did to guarantee their child learns to read in school. Sheri Vail and KeeraSheri’s Facebook page, Sheri Vail CoachingEmail: [email protected] # 631-503-1544 Hornet and Word Wasp Manualshttps://www.wordwasp.com/ Facebook GroupWord Wasp USA Support Dinorah DellaCamera and ChrisDr.Dinorah DellaCamera is veterinarian who is passionate about reading and life long learning. On Facebook, she is the infamous “Carrie Dee” and is the admin for a handful of dyslexia groups. Dinorah is a member of the NYS Dyslexia Task Screen DeepA podcast decoding young brains and behavior in a digital world.Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the showThe Literacy View is an engaging and inclusive platform encouraging respectful discussion and debate about current issues in education.

Send us a textPlease Support Our Show❤️https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=88DP4YMVETHFQAdvertise with us:https://theliteracyview.com/contact/Join our Facebook Group✅https://www.facebook.com/share/g/msdoTSwSiQvbtUW9/?mibextid=qtnXGeEmail us: [email protected]’s Book Links-https://a.co/d/5bv8AdEhttps://a.co/d/50d2qWZThe One About…SRSD Plus Oral Language, Handwriting, and Spelling with Dr. Young Kim Dr. Young-Suk Kim and SRSD founder, Dr. Karen Harris, developed an integrated approach for Kindergarten to Second Grade students that takes the well-regarded SRSD framework and strengthens the foundational skills for beginner writers. This fascinating work is groundbreaking, and the results are impressive! Young’s recommendation:“When teaching reading and writing subskills, make the link between reading and writing explicit and visible. Explicitly point out how target skills and strategies can be used in reading and writing contexts.” Dr. Young Kim bio:Young-Suk Grace Kim is a professor and the senior associate dean at the School of Education, University of California, Irvine. A former classroom teacher in San Francisco, Kim’s scholarship focuses on understanding language and literacy development and effective instruction for racially, ethnically, economically, and linguistically diverse children, and helping them build strong foundations to support their success in school and beyond. Her areas of research include reading comprehension, reading fluency, listening comprehension and oral language, dyslexia, higher-order cognitive skills, written composition, and reading–writing relations. She has worked extensively with monolingual children from various linguistic backgrounds (e.g., English, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, Kiswahili) and multilingual children in the United States. Her research has been supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, the U.S. Department of Education, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the National Science Foundation. She was a recipient of the 2012 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers by President Barack Obama. Kim is currently serving as editor-in-chief for Scientific Studies of Reading and chair of the Vocabulary Special Interest Group for the American Educational Research Association.https://search.app/1kuFWcgRzYTouuds7 Email: [email protected]   Article:ILA The Reading Teacher “Enhancing Reading and Writing Skills through Systematically Integrated Instruction”By Young-Suk Grace Kim and Elizabeth Zagatahttps://ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/trtr.2307 Screen DeepA podcast decoding young brains and behavior in a digital world.Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the showThe Literacy View is an engaging and inclusive platform encouraging respectful discussion and debate about current issues in education.

Send us a textPlease Support Our Show❤️https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=88DP4YMVETHFQAdvertise with us:https://theliteracyview.com/contact/Join our Facebook Group✅https://www.facebook.com/share/g/msdoTSwSiQvbtUW9/?mibextid=qtnXGeEmail us: [email protected] One About….Everything you need to know aboutUniversal Screeners, Benchmarks, and Progress Monitoring! “Students will need different levels of support, even in Tier 1.” – Stephanie StollarArticle:You May Be Right, I May Be Crazy: MTSS and Tier 1 InstructionStephanie StollarMarch 20, 2024https://keystoliteracy.com/blog/you-may-be-right-i-may-be-crazy-mtss-and-tier-i-instruction/ Alisa DormanPresidentAcadience Learning Inc.Phone: (541) 431-6931 | Fax: (866) 211-1450acadiencelearning.org Julie NixonSystem Support SpecialistAcadience Learning Inc.Phone: (541) 431-6931 | Fax: (866) 211-1450acadiencelearning.orgFaith’s Book Links-https://a.co/d/5bv8AdEhttps://a.co/d/50d2qWZ  Screen DeepA podcast decoding young brains and behavior in a digital world.Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the showThe Literacy View is an engaging and inclusive platform encouraging respectful discussion and debate about current issues in education.

Send us a textAre we “Sold a Story” on Science of Reading Books and Programs? Please Support Our Show❤️https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=88DP4YMVETHFQAdvertise with us:https://theliteracyview.com/contact/Join our Facebook Group✅https://www.facebook.com/share/g/msdoTSwSiQvbtUW9/?mibextid=qtnXGeEmail us: [email protected] One About…Are we “Sold a Story” on Science of Reading Trade Books?Quote:“Considering a key theme of ‘Sold a Story’ is the danger of following edu-gurus, I find it *very* interesting that a lot of the SoR crowd all seem to cite the same handful of folks-some of whom have very little expertise in the stuff they’re writing trade books about.” –  Trevor Aleo is a teacher, researcher, and consultant. “As a full-time high school teacher and doctoral student, I find myself in a unique position -with one foot firmly planted in the classroom and the other in the world of research. One of things I’m most passionate about is making all of the incredible theories and scholarship out there more accessible and actionable for practitioners.”See bio on trevoraleo.comCheck Out- Trevor’s Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conceptually-speaking/id1512489341Faith’s Book Links-https://a.co/d/5bv8AdEhttps://a.co/d/50d2qWZScreen DeepA podcast decoding young brains and behavior in a digital world.Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the showThe Literacy View is an engaging and inclusive platform encouraging respectful discussion and debate about current issues in education.

Send us a textThe One About…Using Questioning and Strategy Instruction to Support Upper Elementary Students with Marianne Rice, Kay Wijekumar, and Kacee Lambright “Making inferences is essential to comprehending text. Teachers can ask inferential questions, model their thinking, and teach specific strategies to support upper elementary students in making inferences while reading.” Website: https://www.literacy.io/ Article:Promoting Inference Generation: Using Questioning and Strategy Instruction to Support Upper Elementary StudentsMarianne Rice, Kay Wijekumar, Kacee Lambright, and Ashley StackThe Reading Teacher, July 2024https://ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/trtr.2353 Check out our other episode with Marianne and Kacee!EP.69-Text Structure and Inference Skills: The Latest Instructional Research!https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-69-text-structure-and-inference-skills-the/id1614519794?i=1000651502855  “What’s the Main Idea?”: Using Text Structure to Build Comprehensionhttps://ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/trtr.2016 “Inference skills for reading: A meta-analysis of instructional practices.”https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-63383-001 Kay WijekumarHouston Endowed Chair (Teaching, Learning and Culture)Texas A&M UniversityEmail: [email protected]  Marianne Rice is an Assistant Professor of Literacy Education at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. She was an elementary teacher and reading specialist for over 10 years before earning her PhD at Texas A&M University.Email:[email protected] Lambright:Research Specialist IIITEACHING, LEARNING & CULTURETexas A&M UniversityEmail: [email protected] Please Support Our Show❤️https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=88DP4YMVETHFQAdvertise with us:https://theliteracyview.com/contact/Join our Facebook Group✅https://www.facebook.com/share/g/msdoTSwSiQvbtUW9/?mibextid=qtnXGeEmail us: [email protected] Borkowsky’s books: "If Only I Would Have Known..." (3-in-1 Edition): What I wish the Pediatrician, the Preschool Teacher, and the Librarian would have told me about Language, Literacy, and Dyslexiahttps://a.co/d/6wTSSGv Failing Students or Failing Schools?: A Parent's Guide to Reading Instruction and InterventionScreen DeepA podcast decoding young brains and behavior in a digital world.Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the showThe Literacy View is an engaging and inclusive platform encouraging respectful discussion and debate about current issues in education.

Send us a text Please Support Our Show❤️https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=88DP4YMVETHFQAdvertise with us:https://theliteracyview.com/contact/Join our Facebook Group✅https://www.facebook.com/share/g/msdoTSwSiQvbtUW9/?mibextid=qtnXGeEmail us: [email protected] One About…Report Cards: Parents are in the Dark“When parents are in the know, they take action.” – Sonya Thomas Time Magazine:https://time.com/6308834/american-parents-how-their-kids-doing-in-school/ Nashville Propel:Article talks about a white paper released by Nashville Propel in June: Because of positive report cards, 78% of the Nashville parents surveyed believe their kids are reading at grade level. Meanwhile, data reveals that only 28.5% of students across MNPS—and only 19.6% of Black students—are. (MNPS stands for Metro Nashville Public Schools.)https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/columnists/2024/06/03/nashville-public-schools-literacy-crisis-affects-black-parents/73925657007/ Faith Borkowsky’s books: "If Only I Would Have Known..." (3-in-1 Edition): What I wish the Pediatrician, the Preschool Teacher, and the Librarian would have told me about Language, Literacy, and Dyslexiahttps://a.co/d/6wTSSGv Failing Students or Failing Schools?: A Parent's Guide to Reading Instruction and Interventionhttps://a.co/d/aR6cPhR Special Guest, Dr. Irene DariaWebsite:www.StepstoReading.com Book:I Didn’t Believe Himhttps://a.co/d/6tX7qLB Irene Daria on X: @StepstoReading Screen DeepA podcast decoding young brains and behavior in a digital world.Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the showThe Literacy View is an engaging and inclusive platform encouraging respectful discussion and debate about current issues in education.

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Send us a text Please Support Our Show❤️https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=88DP4YMVETHFQAdvertise with us:https://theliteracyview.com/contact/Join our Facebook Group✅https://www.facebook.com/share/g/msdoTSwSiQvbtUW9/?mibextid=qtnXGeEmail us: [email protected] One About…Strict Synthetic Phonics: What Does That Mean?with Debbie Hepplewhite Is reading instruction that focuses exclusively on learning the code in the first weeks of the school year, without any additional activities such as memorization or global recognition of non-decodable words, more effective in acquiring good fluency and comprehension? Article:French Scientific Council for Education  (CSEN)The Effectiveness of Teaching Methods for Learning to Readhttps://www.reseau-canope.fr/fileadmin/user_upload/Projets/conseil_scientifique_education_nationale/syntheses_et_recommandations/international/Note_11_CSEN_Version_anglais_def_formate___V2.pdf Debbie Hepplewhite bio:https://phonicsinternational.com/about-debbie/ Phonics International:https://phonicsinternational.com/ Alphabetic Code Charts:https://alphabeticcodecharts.com/ FREEPreschool:https://phonicsinternationalpreschool.com/ FREEHandwriting:https://debbiehepplewhitehandwriting.com/Faith’s Book Links-https://a.co/d/5bv8AdEhttps://a.co/d/50d2qWZ  Screen DeepA podcast decoding young brains and behavior in a digital world.Listen on: Apple Podcasts   SpotifySupport the showThe Literacy View is an engaging and inclusive platform encouraging respectful discussion and debate about current issues in education.