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Dr. Rachael Gabriel
@RacheGabriel
Education researcher, Writer, Prof. of literacy education. All tweets represent my own opinions and sensemaking.
Connecticut, USA
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    Dr. Rachael Gabriel
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    Apr 11, 2024
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    If you care about neurodiversity, linguistic diversity, cultural diversity, racial justice, disability justice you can't ignore the potential of any curriculum or curriculum policy to exclude and erase. Especially when curriculum is being used as a lever for reform.
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    Dr. Rachael Gabriel
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    Apr 18, 2020
    What if, instead of assuming kids will return with "loss" "slide" "gaps" and in need of remediation. We planned to welcome them all as creative, gifted, talented. Would would the conversations look like with these principles re-mediating it? apa.org/ed/schools/tea…
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    Dr. Rachael Gabriel
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    May 6, 2021
    1/6 my new article, "The Sciences of Reading Instruction" is now out in @ASCD 's @ELmagazine. In it I get to write about how "polarizing pitches" about what counts as the #scienceofreading are a lot like the claims made within in the diet/fitness industry
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    Dr. Rachael Gabriel
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    Jul 5, 2022
    1/4 Curriculum is like jarred spaghetti sauce. Some people use it straight from the jar even though they know it's too salty. Some add ingredients to improve it bc they know how to cook, but don't have time to start from scratch.
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    Dr. Rachael Gabriel
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    Jun 15, 2023
    "Reading books with multicultural characters can help young people understand current events with more clarity; increase awareness of the practices of other cultures; and promote interaction, empathy, and unity across racial and cultural groups"
    The magic of seeing yourself in books - Kappan Online
    From kappanonline.org
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    Dr. Rachael Gabriel
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    Oct 3, 2022
    When educators are told to replace locally-relevant, responsive instruction for a packaged program, science isn't in use. A process of integrating new information with existing knowledge & assets is more scientific than replacing one with the other. youtu.be/zJbDuHjKcSo
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    Dr. Rachael Gabriel
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    Jun 28, 2022
    First they cut reading specialists, then they cut teachers because of budgets…. but don’t worry because they bought a new phonics program. Invest in #people-not-programs. 🤑
    More than 1,000 New York City public schools are losing funds, and many must cut teachers under the budget negotiated by the mayor and City Council.
    N.Y.C. Schools Are Forced to Cut Hundreds of Teachers as Funding Drops (Published 2022)
    From nytimes.com
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    Dr. Rachael Gabriel
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    Jun 28, 2022
    You can't buy good literacy instruction, but you can invest in great literacy teachers. The training that comes with new materials is not that investment. Trainings are primarily procedural. Capacity-building is primarily analytical...Just like good instruction.
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    Dr. Rachael Gabriel
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    Mar 8, 2022
    "Americans fail to take the work of teachers seriously...If Americans truly valued this work, we would have done more to ensure teachers have safe, stable environments in which to practice their craft."
      
    Opinion | Too Many Americans Don’t Understand What Happens in Their Schools (Published 2022)
    From nytimes.com
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    Dr. Rachael Gabriel
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    May 11, 2022
    EdReports is cool, but it's increasingly being used as a gatekeeping device for instructional materials. Click to see why that might be a problem. youtu.be/YvJQv_ZDlhQ
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    Dr. Rachael Gabriel
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    Oct 16, 2023
    The problem with 20+mins on whole group phonics instruction - besides the further squish-out of Sci/SS, (even where "integrated" in the lit block, they're for sure not in the phonics part) - is everyone working on the same pattern whether they know or are ready for it or not.
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    Dr. Rachael Gabriel
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    Jul 5, 2022
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    4/4 "self-confident and knowledgeable teachers critically examine, flexibly adapt, and actively evaluate the right sequence of instruction, lesson plans, and activities (Jitendra et al., 2001; Penuel et al., 2014; Piasta et al., 2009)." DM me for PDF rdcu.be/cQYHz
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    Dr. Rachael Gabriel
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    Jan 27, 2022
    This bill doubles down on failed policy strategies from the past 20 years that have not worked to increase equity or achievement, and in some cases have made things worse.
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    Dr. Rachael Gabriel
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    Jul 24, 2023
    debuting on sale this week, the love of my last 6 years for self, group, or course study of disciplinary literacy in secondary settings @TCPress @UConnNeag tcpress.com/doing-discipli…
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