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Natalie Wexler once said that parents are the sleeping giants in this reading science movement. The parents in Minneapolis Public Schools are awake and ready! They are passionate, informed advocates who developed a coalition of families willing to speak out and say, “Our kids deserve access to structured literacy. Less than 50% of students read at grade level.” Thus, the MPS Academics Advocacy Group was born. Recently, the superintendent of schools, a proponent of balanced literacy approaches, almost lost his job over the state of literacy in Minneapolis. Read more about it and watch it here.
However, the article that caught our attention was posted in The 74, titled A New Kind of Curriculum Night: Armed With Protest Signs and Data, Diverse Group of Minneapolis Parents Demands Better Reading Instruction for Their Kids. Listen to learn about what’s happening in the Minneapolis Public School system for students and families.
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Ep. 151: Science of Reading for ALL Students: Language Variation and Reading with Julie Washington
Ep. 150: Science of Reading for ALL Students: Intervention for Secondary Students
[Listen Again] Ep. 26: Tim Shanahan Shares about Strategies & Knowledge Building
Ep. 149: Hot Topic Series: Clarifying Differences Between Reading Skills and Reading Strategies
[Listen Again] Episode 30: Wild about Wexler: Take 2!
Ep. 148: Hot Topic Series: Should You Teach Phonemic Awareness ‘In the Dark’ or with Print?
[Listen Again] Ep. 113: Reading is Rocket Science with Louisa Moats
Ep. 147: Hot Topic Series: What is Speech to Print?
[Listen Again] Ep. 116: Sonia Cabell on the Importance of Content-Rich ELA Instruction
Ep. 146: Reading Comprehension is Not a Skill with Robert Pondiscio
[Listen Again] Ep. 118: Rethinking Reading Comprehension with Researcher Hugh Catts
Ep. 145: Debunking Balanced Literacy Arguments with Pamela Snow
[Listen Again] Ep. 112: Kareem Weaver on Levers for Literacy Change
Episode 144: The Science of Reading as More Than a Pendulum Swing
[Listen Again] Ep. 37: Placing Text at the Center of the ELA Classroom with Meredith Liben & Sue Pimentel
Ep. 143: Maximizing Small Group Reading Instruction
[Listen Again] Ep. 80: A Primary Teacher's Perspective on Science of Reading, Small Group Instruction, and Sound Walls
Ep. 142: Structured Literacy in Small Group Time
[Listen Again] Ep. 22: Leading Urgent Change in Baltimore with Dr. Sonja Santelises
Ep. 141: Literacy Leaders as Agents of Change
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