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School Absence Excuses
No doubt you've heard a few of these. Following are my favorites from BuzzFeed's collection, which has been gathered from school attendance clerks over the years.…
Teacher Hygge
Essentially, hygge is the Danish (and some claim Norwegian) term for that moment in life when you sigh, smile, and say, "Life is good." It's the…
Summer Teacher Mindfulness
It sometimes seemed as if it never would arrive, and then it showed up so surprisingly soon: summer! Built into every teacher is a certain life…
Orton-Gillingham Review
Recently I've been getting a number of inquiries regarding the Orton-Gillingham Approach, so I thought I'd offer my thoughts and cite relevant research studies regarding this…
Summer School Reading Intervention
More and more schools are seeing the value of summer school as an option for intensive reading intervention. Whether students are assigned to the program and…
Misleading Educational Malpractice
I've gathered a selection of articles I've written regarding these movements, programs, philosophies, mindsets, and educational practices that I find to lack some degree of educational…
Flexible Phonics Instruction
There is no doubt that explicit, systematic phonics instruction has its place in reading instruction with greater instructional continuity and success than with hodge-podge synthetic, analytic,…
Dyslexia Is Not Real?
I agree with the conclusion of the International Literacy Association in response to the criticisms of the International Dyslexia Association: "In other words, there is no…