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PROOF POINTS: Controversies within the science of reading

The Hechinger Report

If you teach phonemic awareness, students will learn phonemic awareness,” which isn’t the goal, said Tiffany Peltier , a learning scientist who consults on literacy training for teachers at NWEA, an assessment company. “If Teacher training programs in the science of reading emphasized the importance of phonemic awareness.

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SEL is critical–but teachers rarely have time to address it

eSchool News

While teachers know their students need help developing social emotional skills, they rarely have time or adequate training to focus on them in the classroom, according to a new survey from ReadTheory , an edtech company that helps students build reading comprehension skills.

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Teachers can’t keep up with the need for SEL

eSchool News

While teachers know their students need help developing social emotional skills, they rarely have time or adequate training to focus on them in the classroom, according to a survey from ReadTheory , an edtech company that helps students build reading comprehension skills. The home-school connection is not happening when it comes to SEL.

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PROOF POINTS: ‘Right-to-read’ settlement spurred higher reading scores in California’s lowest performing schools, study finds

The Hechinger Report

Blue dots represent the 75 schools that were eligible for the right-to-read settlement program of training and funds. Teachers were trained in evidence-based ways of teaching reading, including an emphasis on phonics and vocabulary, and encouraged to use them. (A The newly trained teachers in the science of reading may soon quit too.

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One Idea to Keep Teachers From Quitting — End the Teacher Time Crunch

Edsurge

After somewhat predictable sections about low teacher pay and the need for better teacher-training pathways, the report includes a section on a topic so mundane it’s almost startling: “Demonstrate Respect and Value for Teacher Time.” on Teachers Pay Teachers,” a popular platform that educators use to buy educational materials from each other.

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OPINION: It’s time. Let’s use different ways of teaching children to read

The Hechinger Report

Only 53 percent of teacher education programs “provide sufficient coverage of early reading components,” the National Council on Teacher Quality found in their 2020 review of elementary teacher training programs. These more effective teacher training programs spend ample time exploring the theory and research behindthe science of reading.

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Teachers Know Students Need Social Emotional Learning, Face Challenges Delivering Support, According to New Survey From ReadTheory

eSchool News

WILMINGTON, DE – August 4, 2022 – A new survey reveals that while teachers know their students need help developing social emotional skills, they rarely have time or adequate training to focus on them in the classroom. More than 60 percent told ReadTheory their mental wellness impacted instruction.

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