Patrick Proctor

such a great chapter. 🙏🏼

Much SoR legislation has been around for a while. Persistently balanced literacy won’t work as a reason for much longer.

Yes, agreed that bigger social factors are always the major predictors. Too often we are presented with simple solutions

As of November, 2024, 40 states have adopted “science of reading” legislation designed to raise student reading performance. However, 2024 4th grade NAEP reading scores went down compared to previous years. Maybe it’s time to rethink the wisdom of mandating SoR curricula as “transformative”

Honestly, I feel like the best thing to do right now is to remind yourself that you're not alone and be amongst people who have actual moral integrity.

Right, agreed. The question is whose knowledge is privileged in the curriculum

Two Mass. families sue famed literacy specialists, claiming reading curriculums were intentionally flawed - The Boston Globe The complaint, which is seeking class action status, could spur others like it nationwide.

This is what happens when stories get sold too hard, if you catch my drift.

www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/04/m...

Educational Psychologist Expanding the Science of Reading: Contributions from Educational Psychology. Volume 59, Issue 4 of Educational Psychologist

Our essay is part of a larger special issue in Educational Psychologist with contributions from some amazing scholars relative to asset-based pedagogy, executive function, and justice-based reading assessment.

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With thanks to the great @courtneyhattan.bsky.social for the editorial excellence!

Toward a dynamic idiolect: Multilingual perspectives on the “science of reading” In this essay, we address the multilingual challenge that is faced by both the “science of reading” and the field of educational psychology. We describe some significant contributions made by educa...

Proud to publish this piece with Chris Leider (@cmleider.bsky.social). We ask educational psychologists to consider students’ “dynamic idiolects” to better understand reading development and achievement. First 50 downloads are free!

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Resist analyzing this as an actual policy position.

The work was federally funded; CLAVES is not published by a for-profit curriculum company. It is free except for the cost of the books (which are awesome and worth buying anyway).

I hope folks will take a look and try it out!

<em>Reading Research Quarterly</em> | ILA Literacy Journal | Wiley Online Library Students are expected to comprehend and produce increasingly complex texts in upper elementary school, and academic language and literacy skills are considered critical to meeting these expectations....

My colleagues and I have documented evidence of CLAVES effectiveness among 4th and 5th grade bilingual students (DM for .pdf).

ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

All instructional materials, except for the actual books, are on the site. These include lesson plans, student workbooks, and interactive slide decks.

Any upper elementary teachers out there who want a free and effective language-based reading curriculum are welcome to check out CLAVES (www.clavescurriculum.net).

CLAVES can be used on its own or as a curricular supplement. It was designed with and for multilingual students and their teachers.

Core Knowledge Language Arts is a “science of reading” curriculum whose lead editor is E.D. Hirsch. If your district adopts this curriculum while simultaneously talking about “culturally sustaining pedagogy”, please ask whose culture is being sustained in the name of the “science of reading”.

The office door of my 2016 research team. There will be new bans. It will be the same resistance.