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The One About: Curriculum Champions vs. the Teacher Defenders with Kata Solow
“Right now, the Curriculum Champions are winning politically. But if they’re going to succeed in the classroom, they need to win over teachers on the ground. This piece is about how to do that.” – Kata Solow
Article:
Comprehensive Reading Curricula and Teacher Expertise: We Don’t Have to Choose
November 30, 2023 by Kata Solow
https://www.shankerinstitute.org/blog/comprehensive-reading-curricula-and-teacher-
expertise-we-dont-have-choose
Kata Solow Bio:
Kata Solow is the Executive Director of the Goyen Foundation where she led its multi-year transformation process and created the Goyen Literacy Fellowship to recognize exceptional reading teachers. She is a former classroom educator, school administrator and field organizer.
Goyen Foundation Website:
https://www.goyen.io/

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The One About…
Steve Dykstra’s Interpretation of Mark Seidenberg’s Slide Deck
“Identifying what was wrong was much easier than figuring out what to do instead.” – Mark Seidenberg How are teachers supposed to figure out what to do?
The Literacy View asked Dr. Steve Dykstra to help us unpack Mark Seidenberg’s Yale
presentation slides. Mark Seidenberg’s Slide Deck from a presentation given at Yale:
“Where Does the Science of Reading Go From Here?”
https://seidenbergreading.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Yale-talk.pdf
Dr. Steve Dykstra has worked as a psychologist for over thirty years in the public sector. He is a founding member of the Wisconsin Reading Coalition and Vice President of the Coalition for Reading Excellence.

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The One About…
Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark Assessment System is Often Wrong with Dr. Matt Burns

“Flipping a coin would actually be better.”
“And when it came to identifying the readers who were furthest behind, Burns said, the BAS performed even worse.”
 Matt Burns is a special education professor who conducted the first peer-reviewed study of the BAS.
Article: “Benchmark Assessment System Reading Test is Widely Used and Often Wrong” APM Reports
December 11, 2023 by Christopher Peak
https://www.apmreports.org/story/2023/12/11/benchmark-assessment-system-reading-test- often-wrong
Matt Burns Bio:
https://education.ufl.edu/faculty/matthew-burns/

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The One About…
Is ‘Sold a Story’ an incomplete and oversimplified picture of reading?
Nick Covington’s view
“My goal with this piece is to capture the questions and criticisms that I have not just about the narrative of Sold A Story but of the broader movement toward “The Science of Reading,” and bring in other evidence and perspectives that inform my own. I hope to make the case that “The Science of Reading” is not a useful label to describe the multiple goals of literacy; that investment in teacher professionalization is inoculation against being Sold A Story; and that the unproductive and divisive Reading Wars actually make it more difficult for us to think about
how to cultivate literate kids.” – Nick Covington Nick Covington bio:
Nick is the creative director for the Human Restoration Project and former high school Social Studies teacher in Iowa public Schools. He promotes progressive education across the board. Nick aims to reestablish the idea of what school could be to one of student-centered success that relies on their ideas and knowledge instead of a dictated “future-ready” curriculum.
Website:
Humanrestorationproject.org
Article:
Unsettling the Science of Reading: Who is Being Sold a Story?
https://www.humanrestorationproject.org/writing/who-is-being-sold-a-story-unsettling-the-
science-of-reading

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Don’t Discard Comprehension Strategies with Jennifer Buckingham
“The arguments against teaching comprehension skills and strategies are often framed in these ways: 1) Comprehension skills/strategies are not generic, transferable competencies … so it is a waste of time to teach them explicitly.
2) Reading comprehension is highly dependent on background knowledge … so an evidence-based approach to reading comprehension is to always embed instruction in a knowledge-building context.
These two statements are only partly true.” – Jennifer Buckingham
Article: Don’t Discard Comprehension Strategies
June 22, 2023
https://fivefromfive.com.au/blog/dont-discard-comprehension-strategies/
Bio:“Dr Jennifer Buckingham OAM is Director of Strategy and Senior Research Fellow at MultiLit, and Director of the Five from Five Project.
Jennifer is the founder of the Five from Five project which provides evidence-based information on effective reading instruction. Her PhD research was on effective instruction for struggling readers. She has provided advice on reading instruction, curriculum and policy to the NSW,
Victorian, South Australian and federal governments and was the chair of the expert advisory group to the federal government on a Year 1 literacy and numeracy assessment. Jennifer works with systems, schools and teachers to improve literacy instruction and assessment. She is a board member of the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership, an affiliate member of the La Trobe University SOLAR Lab and a member of the National Catholic Education Commission’s Standing Committee on Educational Excellence.”

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The One About:
Reading Curriculum Overhaul with Journalist Alex Zimmerman
Is your school using a new reading curriculum for the first time this year? ��
Do you feel prepared to transition to a new reading curriculum? ��
Is your district “building the plane while flying it?” ��
Teachers and school leaders are struggling to make the transition.

Alex Zimmerman Bio:
Alex Zimmerman is a reporter at Chalkbeat New York, where he covers the largest school
system in the country. Before covering schools, he focused on police accountability, LGBT
issues, public health and transportation. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Village Voice,
Vice and Atlas Obscura.
Article:
“How is NYC’s literacy curriculum mandate going? Teachers feel unprepared.”
Chalkbeat
November 27, 2023
https://www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2023/11/27/teachers-want-more-training-for-reading-
curriculum-overhaul/

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https://thinksrsd.com/The One About…
Powerful Writing Instruction with Karen Harris
We have a body of evidence-based practices (EBPs) and best practices that can make a
meaningful difference in writing development for our students. The Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) model of instruction for writing results in meaningful improvements in
students writing across grades 1-12.
Bio:
https://search.asu.edu/profile/1980816
Book: Powerful Writing Strategies for All Students
Article:
Karen R. Harris & Debra McKeown (2022)
Overcoming barriers and paradigm wars: Powerful evidence-based writing instruction, Theory into Practice
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00405841.2022.2107334
See these orgs for PD for SRSD (Karen Harris has no financial relationship to either, but
voluntarily advise both):
www.thinkSRSD.com
https://thinksrsd.com/
https://srsdonline.org/

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The One About…
Nell Duke: What We Truly Know About the Teaching of Reading
What does research tell us about cueing; what does research tell us about phonics instruction; what does research instruction tell us about teaching areas other than phonics; what does research tell us about causes of reading difficulty; how do psychometricians set cut scores for NAEP and other assessments; and what about decodable texts? Nell Duke shares her wealth of knowledge with us and gives us the real stories grounded in decades of research.
Article:
ILA, The Reading Teacher
November 2, 2023
https://ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/trtr.2258

Nell Duke’s Bio:
https://stand.org/people/nell-duke/

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The One About…
Selective Research Findings with Dr. Michael Paff
As we turn back the clocks, it looks like some educators are trying to turn back the hands of
time and poke holes in the Science of Reading.
Article
“Stories Grounded in Decades of Research What We Truly Know About the Teaching of
Reading”
Quote
“While science of reading advocates claim to be research-based, decades of reading scholarship
have recognized reading as complex, multidimensional, and mediated by social and cultural
practices.”
ILA, The Reading Teacher
November 2, 2023
httpsila.onlinelibrary.wiley.comdoi10.1002trtr.2258

Dr. Michael Paff
Bio
Dr. Michael Paff is a school psychologist at a high school in upstate NY, a licensed psychologist
in private practice at Psychological and Educational Solutions of the Hudson Valley
(httpwww.psychedhv.com), and an adjunct professor in the school psychology program at
Marist College. He has almost 20 years of experience working with students from pre-k thru college.

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The One About:
Writing Research with Stephen Ciullo and Alyson Collins
Article #1
The findings from this study raise substantial concerns about the preparation to teach writing
general and special education teachers receive in their preservice program.
“Special and General Education Teachers’ Beliefs About Writing and Writing Instruction”
Steve Graham, EdD, Alyson A. Collins, PhD, and Stephen Ciullo, PhD
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00222194221092156
Article #2
More emphasis needs to be placed on teaching writing and reading together. Such instruction
and research on its effectiveness needs to be expanded so that teachers and schools have
access to a more nuanced, integrated, and spiraled model or combining writing, reading, and
content instruction.
“Writing Expository Essays from Social Studies Texts: A Self-Regulated Strategy Development
Study”
Collins, Alyson A.; Ciullo, Stephen; Graham, Steve;
https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1306487
Dr. Stephen Ciullo
Bio:
Stephen Ciullo is an Associate Professor of Special Education at Texas State University. His
research focuses on two topics. First, he studies the extent to which classroom writing
instruction provided to students with disabilities aligns with research evidence, and how
observed instruction relates to students’ writing performance. Second, Stephen is interested in
interventions that enhance teachers’ effectiveness in the area of writing and content-area
knowledge.
Dr. Alyson Collins
Bio:
Alyson Collins is an Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at Texas State University.
She is a Dyslexia Therapist/Academic Language Therapist and is a member of the Academic
Language Therapy Association.

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