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Oops wrong link: https://jgregorymcverry.com/poetry/RootTip.mp3

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Oops wrong link: https://jgregorymcverry.com/poetry/RootTip.mp3

@geonz Agree and it does feel different. As if educators willing to move from tough conversation to the much tougher realm of action. Inspiration foun

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@geonz Agree and it does feel different. As if educators willing to move from tough conversation to the much tougher realm of action. Inspiration found across globe I tried to capture a little in Root Tip https://jgregorymcverry.com/mypoetry/RootTip.mp3

We organize much of our day around a subject called English. That is racist. #satchat #literacies #nctevillage

We organize much of our day around a subject called English. That is racist. #satchat #literacies #nctevillage

leveling does damage to student self efficacy and this often falls on economic and racial lines. Every year I have my preservice teachers reflect on t

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leveling does damage to student self efficacy and this often falls on economic and racial lines. Every year I have my preservice teachers reflect on their literary past. So many of them share and carry pain of low group

Check out this piece on reading identities by Donna Alvermann: https://jgregorymcverry.com/readings/Alvermann2004Reading_Adolescents__Reading_Identiti

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Check out this piece on reading identities by Donna Alvermann: https://jgregorymcverry.com/readings/Alvermann2004Reading_Adolescents__Reading_Identities.pdf or David Kirkland's "Search Past Silence"

I am for small group reading, book choice, and the passion and love you teach your students. But a part of my soul dies when I hear a student say, " I

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I am for small group reading, book choice, and the passion and love you teach your students. But a part of my soul dies when I hear a student say, " I am a P kid, can't pick from that shelf"

OG students-originial students? or that a level on Fountas & Pinnel scale? Yes can have wonderful pedagogy in groups determined by reading level but y

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OG students-originial students? or that a level on Fountas & Pinnel scale? Yes can have wonderful pedagogy in groups determined by reading level but you are getting zero pedagogical benefit from leveling, evidence suggest opposite

But that is not an attack. Just reality. Fact that I am off to cut the Little League fields is racist too. I have the privilege to volunteer, spend wa

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But that is not an attack. Just reality. Fact that I am off to cut the Little League fields is racist too. I have the privilege to volunteer, spend way too much money on kid gear, town has the space for fields and parks, etc.

Disagree with Karen on many things, book leveling not one. Just one of many ways racism gets reflected in curriculum...Not an overtly racist act like

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Disagree with Karen on many things, book leveling not one. Just one of many ways racism gets reflected in curriculum...Not an overtly racist act like a literacy test to vote, but an assessment system born from systematic racism

@MsMiller_Mb I have to go work on baseball fields to save the diamonds kids can't use....but will write a longer blog post. Some quick thoughts #satch

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@MsMiller_Mb I have to go work on baseball fields to save the diamonds kids can't use....but will write a longer blog post. Some quick thoughts #satchat (click on link to expand) 1. Data fetishization is a white savior disease about sorting ,documenting, and fixing the "gap" 2. What makes your groups great is your teaching, not your leveling. 3. There is 0%

RT @geonz: @jgmac1106 I figured out little over a year ago that this is a magic phrase, though. If you say you are ready for them you get…

RT @geonz: @jgmac1106 I figured out little over a year ago that this is a magic phrase, though. If you say you are ready for them you get…

@geonz just scrolling through #satchat see so much we will have t "tough conversations" frombunch of people who dont have to teach their children how

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@geonz just scrolling through #satchat see so much we will have t "tough conversations" frombunch of people who dont have to teach their children how not to get killed by the police....but they teach BIPOC children "we all equal"

@MsMiller_Mb I am going with is...you can use melanin to predict reading levels...Once a kid gets a label in K...they don't move. There is ZERO resear

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@MsMiller_Mb I am going with is...you can use melanin to predict reading levels...Once a kid gets a label in K...they don't move. There is ZERO research to support any kind of running record sorting of kids. #satchat

Red pens

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Red pens

@Bali_Maha schools

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@Bali_Maha schools

Can we stop labeling "white fragility" as "tough conversations" or "critical conversations"... #satchat

Can we stop labeling "white fragility" as "tough conversations" or "critical conversations"... #satchat

@MsMiller_Mb Talking about any curricular decision based on the bad science of using read alouds to assign levels of ability to students...There is 0%

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@MsMiller_Mb Talking about any curricular decision based on the bad science of using read alouds to assign levels of ability to students...There is 0% research to support these often racist practices. #satchat

@ericabrivera Explicit racist curriculum in #EastHaddam ...Ellis Island Immigrant Day, First Nation iconography on sports uniforms, taking elem kids t

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@ericabrivera Explicit racist curriculum in #EastHaddam ...Ellis Island Immigrant Day, First Nation iconography on sports uniforms, taking elem kids to field trips where they hear tales of buying the land for 53 coats #satchat

Stop asking IPBOC educators to do the work, teach you, or share the resources. That is the opposite of anti-racist teaching. The oppressed don't fix t

Stop asking IPBOC educators to do the work, teach you, or share the resources. That is the opposite of anti-racist teaching. The oppressed don't fix the oppressor https://twitter.com/3_DLeadership/status/1269243737412116482 #satchat

RT @3_DLeadership: @teachermrw @FredEnde @wkrakower Part of me hopes there aren’t to be honest. Most black folx I know don’t like “arguing”…

RT @3_DLeadership: @teachermrw @FredEnde @wkrakower Part of me hopes there aren’t to be honest. Most black folx I know don’t like “arguing”…