@suchmo83.bsky.social Look what I spotted in the library at University of Central Florida!

We are ready and waiting to welcome you to the 60th UKLA International Conference! You'll find us in the Tithebarn building, just behind the superlambanana! #thisismyukla #uklaliverpool25

Rosenshine’s Principles Revisited - a real deep dive into effective instruction with Tom Sherrington today. I love learning about all of this because it is relevant to all subjects. #EdChatIE #ScienceOfLearning #InAction @teacherhead.bsky.social

To watch the recording of the outstanding webinar from edWeb, Orthographic Mapping: Making Words Stick, w/ Molly Ness & Dr. Katie Pace Miles click on the link below & be sure not to miss their related book from Scholastic! I pre-ordered mine & can't wait! Watch here: media.edweb.net/edWebinar/?v...

Coming up this Wednesday! Join @clarafiorentini.bsky.social and myself for a special webinar on lighthouses and literacy. Packed with creative, end-of-year ideas. Lots of inspiration to carry you through the last few weeks! literacy-channel.mykajabi.com/offers/nG9rC...

Check out the latest edition of InTouch magazine for an article that I wrote about Ireland’s achievements in literacy. As the title suggests, we are doing very well internationally, but that’s not the whole story. Read the article to find out more… (pg.45) intouch.into.ie/html5/reader...

Read this yesterday which was similar - if the point is to learn by reading/writing, it's probably worth doing the hard/long way. I find LLMs to be enormously useful in other spaces (it's actually pretty good, I think, about teaching Socratically) claytonwramsey.com/blog/prompt/

Someone asked me why I don’t let AI summarize reading for me or write drafts and the answer is that either of those shortcuts would eliminate the process of thinking. And the thinking is the important part.

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

Check out my first post ‘Planning for Infant Classes: Why English Shouldn’t Be Sliced Into Separate Pieces’ open.substack.com/pub/readwrit...

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

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

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

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

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...

Just a week to go until sales end for #TDaPEManchester, so @annahackett.bsky.social and I explored the sessions on offer in this week's #TDaPE open.spotify.com/episode/1CxH... All proceeds will be donated to Crohn’s and Colitis UK and tickets can be found here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-thinki...

Here's the full schedule featuring sessions from @misssdoherty.bsky.social @alexgingell.bsky.social @mralmonded.bsky.social @scottinghatt.bsky.social @mradamkohlbeck.bsky.social @mrsmithnorwich.bsky.social @playfulclassroom.bsky.social @taylorda01.bsky.social @neophitoua.bsky.social ...

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

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

“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

🧵 9/n Facts

🧵 Reading Recovery 🧵 You are probably aware that Reading Recovery has come into question a lot in recent years. This is because many teachers and parents are now aware of reading research, and how the Reading Recovery does not align with it very well. 1/n #EdChatIE #ReadingRecovery

Thank you for sharing, Trina! Sign up here: literacy-channel.mykajabi.com/offers/z2z3M... #SoR #Ad

I think a massive opportunity for children with additional needs would be to scrap the Friday spelling test. I cannot emphasise the amount of anticipatory anxiety and stress this can cause our children who (in a lot of cases) don’t benefit from it. Often they have memory difficulties. #EdChatIE

I think it’s so helpful to frame instruction in terms of Tiers. When we do this we realise that providing whole class instruction in the form of levelled groups is skipping Tier 1 entirely and moving everyone in the class straight to Tier 2. It places a ceiling on student’s achievement straight away

Absolutely. There are some schools working 10 teachers down in Dublin. Many schools SET departments have been decimated. The staffing crisis is one of the biggest barriers right now. #Edchatie

#EdChatIE 🧵 I have adjusted the Continuum of Support graphic to reflect the research into Mutli-Tiered Support Systems (MTSS). A very well known quote in this field is “You can’t intervene your way out of a Tier 1 problem.”

Bígí linn! #SpéirGorm #EdChatIE

Delighted to see videos like this demonstrating the shortcomings of AI for academic writing. My times are full of ads for ‘undetectable AI’. It cannot replace human thought. youtu.be/Nkqf3Me1U8E?... #EdChatIE #AI #ChatGPT #AcademicWriting #PhDLife

🧵An important part of the primary experience is having a lovely time- adults ringfencing the unique state of childhood and ensuring that primary is a glorious place to be little. Playful and joyful are not the antonyms of high standards and aspiration.

Happy Valentine’s Day to all my fellow researchers! @twisteddoodles.bsky.social

Delighted to be presenting my research at #TDaPEManchester next month! #EdChatIE

I remember reading that they don't teach medical students by discovery learning or use it to teach pilots how to fly planes! #edchatie

🧵 1/2 I have been in a lot of schools over the last few years and one of the things that strikes me is how over-decorated classrooms are. Shiny, laminated, colourful posters on display boards with patterned backgrounds and borders. Walls covered from ceiling to floor. #EdChatIE

Working memory is very limited. Remember the generation game? It’s hard to hold more than a few objects in your mind. Add music. Add a colourful background and border. Add a gif of a dancing monkey. Anything external has the potential to interfere with WM. That’s cognitive overload. #EdChatIE

The Dept of Ed have NO idea how this is going to be rolled out. They’re just keeping their fingers crossed and hoping for the best. We need a long-term plan. #EdChatIE

🔔 Free teacher resource 🔔 Free FAQ handout on phonemic awareness & phonics from @readwritejen.bsky.social @playfulclassroom.bsky.social literacy-channel.mykajabi.com/offers/2jCWN...

Do you have cognitive load theory on your mind? Has instructional design caught your attention? Join us for an #edchatie discussion on cognitive science in Irish education on Monday - 8:30-9:30.

Dr Jan Hasbrouck is joining us for our next literacy symposium on March 8. Registration now open: literacy-channel.mykajabi.com/offers/z2z3M...

Very excited about our symposium on assessment in literacy this March and even more excited to hear from our special guest Dr Jan Hasbrouck. Registration is open now. literacy-channel.mykajabi.com/offers/z2z3M...

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This is where I went wrong with the 1999 curriculum. Obsessed with the skills and blinded by a drive to let the children ‘discover’. Now I know, teach first, discover later. #EdChatIE

We have to discuss environmental implications of AI! Not spoken about enough unfortunately. We have a duty to inform ourselves and our students of these ethical issues and model good practice. Do we have to use AI for every post, lesson, image generation? #edchatie oecd.ai/en/wonk/how-...

docs.google.com/presentation... Created this classroom with UFLI links and resources and all FREE! Thank you @playfulclassroom.bsky.social for creating the Google Drive with so many resources in one!

It was such a pleasure--and an honor!--to see UFLI being implemented so brilliantly in Ireland. Thanks to the teachers who welcomed us and to you, Dee, for making this happen. 😍

My new book, Primary Reading Simplified, is released this Monday. Briefly, I'd like to explain why it exists, who I think will find it useful and where you can find it. >>

Last weekend for 3rd - 6th class teachers to sign up for the Lyn Stone Spelling for Life webinar series. Once you sign up you will be sent the first two recordings …. Registration link zoom.us/webinar/regi...