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Learning, without any opportunities to share what we've learned, is a little like cooking for ourselves; we do it, but we probably won't do it as well.
We must begin where we are and move forward immediately by starting small and capitalizing on what's at hand.
What gets measured (and clearly defined) does get done.
Collaboration allows teachers to capture each other's fund of collective intelligence.
These programs and reading series are the fruit of an intellectually exhausted literacy industry that lost its way long ago, even as we mutely accepted its misguided agenda - to complicate reading and literacy so that we will purchase its programs and materials.
I have found that educators yearn to be told something like this: There will be no more initiatives - at least for a time. Instead, we will focus only on what will have an immediate and dramatic impact on learning in your classrooms: ensuring the implementation of a common, content-rich curriculum; good lessons; and plenty of meaningful literacy activities (such as close reading, writing, and discussion) across the curriculum.
Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
The number of books students read ... is among the best indicators of student reading development.
In a research-poor context,isolated experience replaces professional knowledge as the dominant influence on how teachers teach.
When we unnecessarily elongate the process of "learning to read," we postpone "reading to learn" - learning itself - by years.
Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those in a position to make difference.
