Abby Boruff
@AbbyTeachesDSM
Kindergarten Teacher. Perpetual Learner. Evidence-Based Instruction Enthusiast. Fighter for Good in this World. 📝👩🏻🏫📚❤️🌎✊🏼
It bears repeating...the best intervention is strong core instruction. All the supplemental support in the world won’t improve an ineffective core. Ever.
✏️🪩Are you ready for it?!?📕⌨️ 🎉Episode 5 of the #KnowledgeMatters Podcast is LIVE! Host @natwexler discusses Memory and the Writing Effect with guests Jeff Karpicke from @Purdue and John Sweller, Developer of Cognitive Load Theory! 📝🧠 🎧Listen here: tinyurl.com/ynnhd8jd
Want to explore the links between literacy & cognitive science? This new 6-episode podcast provides an accessible way to do it. My 2 episodes focus on writing. The first drops today & the second on 7.29. @TheWritingRevol Find out more in my new post: open.substack.com/pub/nataliewex…
To help my students with the Because But and So sentence expansion activity, from #TheWritingRevolution, I created the following template. Download for Free. justtwoteachers.com/the-writing-re…
That man gave us one of the greatest scenes in the history of television. I cannot even believe this. I am over here SOBBING! Rest in poetry, Malcolm Jamal Warner. 🕊️
The fact that Theo wanted a $95 #GordonGartrell shirt in 1984 makes the storyline of that episode even funnier.🥹👕 💔Really saddened by Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s death. He was an incredible actor + advocate. Theo’s dyslexia was the first time I remember seeing it on screen.
“The Cosby Show” understandably has a dark cloud around it now, but Malcolm Jamal Warner as Theo is one of the most important/iconic portrayals of a young Black man on TV. From his struggles with dyslexia to becoming an educator, Theo was so important in the 80s/90s.
This quote immediately made me think of Jimmy Dugan in A League of Their Own!
📖Persistence in a challenging text is a gift in education! All students should have this opportunity!💙 🔋@Doug_Lemov discusses the POWER of whole BOOKS in Episode 4 of the #KnowledgeMatters Podcast. 🎧Listen here or on your favorite streaming service: tinyurl.com/ynnhd8jd
Regardless of how much content is required to teach, start with the assumption that it’s better to teach it properly so that they learn it. Save quick exposure for low-mileage topics - teach to mastery when concepts span grade levels and disciplines.
Bingo. This doubles as a Bluey Appreciation tweet, too.
I’m fine with inspiration at edu conferences, but inspiration only goes so far in a profession that is full of hardworking people that only got into this to make a difference, but have been withheld the knowledge of how to design instruction based on the science of learning.
My son and I were part of Sold a Story and will forever be grateful for public media and the phenomenal reporting done by @ehanford! I share the deep concerns around defunding such a critical industry!
You may not know this, but Sold a Story would not have happened if not for public media. I've worked in public media my entire career. It's foundational to my professional - and personal - life. I'm deeply concerned about the future of the industry. americanpublicmedia.org/support
This reflection on AI and the purposes and benefits of writing by @daisychristo is outstanding and 100% worth your time. substack.nomoremarking.com/p/what-is-the-… The analogy of…
I have authored a free eBook to download with @EvidenceInEdu Flashcards to support Teaching & Learning. You can get it here linkedin.com/newsletters/gr…
I’ve recently become a bit obsessed with lesson design, both in full curriculum packages and, thanks to @GTavernetti, day-to-day lesson planning. Superb delivery and familiarity with learning science cannot compensate for a lesson in which the practice doesn’t match the teaching.
mandatory weekend reading. open.substack.com/pub/hollykorbe…
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I can’t remember what class I was taking now but I once read an article about how Starbucks requires all of their water to be filtered with special filters before it goes in your drink to ensure that your coffee tastes the same in Tucson and Minneapolis.
Imagine if Chick-fil-A lowered their standards based on the neighborhood, they’d never do it. So why do we calibrate expectations based on the “type” of students we serve? Excellence should be non-negotiable.
Explicit instruction isn’t a “shiny new thing” that promises to have a “transformative effect” in your classroom. It is a long-standing & proven pedagogical approach that promises to be restorative for teaching & learning in every classroom. Enough with the education fads.
The 15 week study was cited in my book, and people were right to question whether the results of one study would be generalizable to older students. Who cares? Planning time is extremely limited, and it is effective teaching, not decorative displays, that leads to learning.
New research on teaching and learning worth knowing. (July edition) Link in reply ⬇️
I’d say we generally overestimate what students can do when introducing new material by not breaking it down enough, which penalizes struggling students. But we *underestimate* what students can do in terms of their behavior in class, which, again, penalizes struggling students.
🚨@educationweek surveyed 3rd-8th grade teachers and found ONLY 17% primarily used whole books for instruction—25% said books weren’t a major part of the curriculum! @Doug_Lemov + @Stephen_Sawchuk discuss whole books + the impact on language structure. 🔗tinyurl.com/ynnhd8jd
Toby would be so pissed right now. 💔
You may not know this, but Sold a Story would not have happened if not for public media. I've worked in public media my entire career. It's foundational to my professional - and personal - life. I'm deeply concerned about the future of the industry. americanpublicmedia.org/support