Jodi DeVries
@jodidevries.bsky.social
Former teacher, now PhD candidate in Special Ed at the University of Alberta • Structured Literacy • Dyslexia • Evidence-based teaching and learning • Master’s in Mind, Brain, & Education @ Harvard GSE • Grateful to live on Treaty 6 territory
New article from E. D. Hirsch and me on (1) the evidence for the importance of knowledge in reading; (2) why it’s taken so long for people to acknowledge the evidence; (3) what we predict if the role of knowledge is taken seriously. www.educationnext.org/rediscoverin...
Rediscovering Knowledge as the Key to Reading
Two champions of knowledge-rich instruction reflect on its current momentum
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ResearchEd is coming to Calgary in May. With these four anchor speakers and an additional collection of breakout speakers, it’s setting up to be a great event. www.eventbrite.ca/e/researched...
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Join us at North Trail High School in Calgary for a morning of exploration into evidence informed practice in Literacy and Mathematics.
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I just looked through the list of articles in this resource, and it looks like a great resource! It consists of short articles on a variety of topics, with more to come.
Kathy Rastle@kathyrastle.bsky.social · 6mo ago**New** chapter on “Literacy” just published in the Open Encyclopaedia of Cognitive Science. The whole series is super, accessible chapters and no paywalls, a great resource for teaching. oecs.mit.edu/pub/epclh9no...
🎉🥳 Gotta take a moment to celebrate friends doing great things! I looked at this book today, and it’s a fantastic group of contributors for what looks like an excellent book! Great job contributing to accessible science, Emily! www.guilford.com/books/Handbo...
Handbook of Learning Disabilities: Third Edition
This definitive handbook is now in an extensively revised third edition, including many all-new chapters and new topics. Foremost experts review the breadth of current knowledge about learning disabil...
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Emily Harriott@emilymharriott.bsky.social · 7mo agoalmost exactly 4.5 years ago, my phd advisor asked me to write a chapter of a textbook. i thought that was crazy and also immediately said yes. today, i got to hold that textbook !! with that painstakingly written chapter !! in my little hands !! 📘🤲🏼
Join us for our #WordConnections webinar series. We'll explore implementation of this research-based, targeted intervention to support students' reading of complex words! #TosteTeam #BigWords #ScienceOfReading 📅 Nov 13 + Dec 4 | 💻 Live Online 🔗 Register: tosteteam.simpletix.com
Why aren't practices based on research implemented in schools? @tomdee.bsky.social has insights, and ideas for change. www.edweek.org/leadership/o...
High Quality Research Rarely Informs Classroom Practice. Why? (Opinion)
The connection between education research, policy, and practice is broken. Here’s what it would take to fix it.
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The Road to Running Records: A Narrative Review of Their History and a Systematic Narrative Review of the Evidence for Their Use Open-access. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/... #SOR
The Road to Running Records: A Narrative Review of Their History and a Systematic Narrative Review of the Evidence for Their Use - Annie Unger, Tanya Serry, Pamela C. Snow, Tessa Weadman, 2025
In this paper, we employ both narrative and systematic review methodologies to explore Running Records, a reading assessment tool designed for use with children...
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Sneak peak of a project we have been working on for the past two years... We hope to release more information by the end of the year. Watch this space!
Drs. @nsachdeva.bsky.social & Jim Hewitt share about classic studies in Education, starting w/ working memory & cognitive load theory @ #RedTO25. I was just discussing this w/ @numcog.bsky.social over lunch. I wish all teachers learned about this in their BEd training! It changed my teaching so much
Listening to @numcog.bsky.social share about automaticity of math facts. I’m always intrigued by the parallels between math and literacy in both robust research findings and common pushback arguments.
At #redTO25, @j-metsala.bsky.social is delivering a great summary of the history of reading instruction and the alignment and misalignment with research along the way.
😲 In Manitoba, 7 in 10 teachers said either whole language or balanced literacy approaches are used to teach reading. Only 9% reported structured literacy as the most common approach. 60% of teachers & administrators said the current approach to teaching reading isn't working.
What can children learn about morphology when they read for pleasure? We analysed the words in 1200 books suitable for children and young people to find out! Read the blog post here: www.rastlelab.com/post/what-ca...
What can children learn about morphology from reading for fun?
A key part of becoming a skilled reader is understanding how words are built — that is, how small parts of words that carry meaning come together to form words. For example, the word unhappy is made u...
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This webinar, with @mrzachg.bsky.social and @blakeharvard.bsky.social is sure to be great! And it’s free!
Zach Groshell@mrzachg.bsky.social · last yr.Attention is often referred to as the gateway to cognition. Securing attention should be a major focus! But you also have to give students something to attend to. Faultless communications are also necessary. Registration is open for this free webinar! educationrickshaw.com/2025/05/19/h...
HELP! GaabLab has been supporting the #Dyslexia community since 2007. Now we could really use YOUR help due to recent funding cuts that threaten our lab's existence: We're looking for supportive foundations & collaborations, very grateful for any small gift community.alumni.harvard.edu/give/51711873
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Superb thread about how Canadian federal elections work, in case you are wondering why your feed is chock full of Canuck politics tonight
Jared Wesley@jaredwesley.ca · last yr.Americans! Confused about how Canada's federal election is turning out? Wondering how it actually works up here? Grab your double-double, let's dive in.🧵
FREE parent handbook on dyslexia from Dyslexia Canada.
Nancy Wise, Ph.D.@fiedconsulting.bsky.social · last yr.This new Parent Handbook was created by the team at Dyslexia Canada with parents in mind - those with children who are struggling with reading in the English program & in French immersion. Download it here: drive.google.com/file/d/1HB0o...
ERIC! “ERIC is scheduled to run out of money on April 23. After that date, no new documents can be added.” Colleagues, this is catastrophic for educational research. www.governing.com/policy/major...
Major Education Resource Set to Shut Down This Week
The federal Department of Education maintains an open access database of more than 2 million documents dating back to the 1960s. It will cease operating Wednesday due to DOGE cuts.
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Have you ever felt buried under a mountain of assessment data with no clear path forward? We understand and are here to help with our brand-new class—Data-Driven Literacy Instruction: A Practical Guide to Assessment, Analysis and Intervention. 🔗 Learn more: www.thereadingleague.org/shop/data-dr...
🚫 Labeling students as “hands-on learners” (or any learning style) can limit how they're taught, what they believe they can do, and what they actually learn. @carlhendrick.substack.com highlights new research exposing the harm caused by the learning styles myth. Link below.
I finally got around to looking at the December issue of Nomanis. Looks like there are some great articles in there to bookmark for later reading. #SOR #ScienceOfReading www.nomanis.com.au/blog/issue-1...
I listened to this quick (30 minute) webinar today. It offers some poignant reminders that we cannot neglect the oral language strand of the reading rope and provided some great summaries of what is known about effective reading comprehension instruction. #SOR www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBUL...
Lessons From the Science of Reading | Education Now
YouTube video by Harvard Graduate School of Education
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I just found out @cec-dr.bsky.social is on bsky! 🎉
CEC Division for Research (CEC-DR)@cec-dr.bsky.social · last yr.Take action! Come visit the @cecmembership.bsky.social Advocacy Action Center (3rd floor) and take 5 minutes to contact your reps, download a social media toolkit, record a video, or make a poster! @jessicatoste.bsky.social and @mariahugh.bsky.social are here this afternoon and have CEC-DR stickers!
All practice guides are in the public domain. Just in case... osf.io/dk4r5/
IES Practice Guides
Storage of Practice Guides produced by the Institute of Education Sciences through February 2025 Hosted on the Open Science Framework
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Sarah Quinn@sarahquinnphd.bsky.social · last yr.Does anyone have the right permissions to put the practice guides up on OSF? I say this fully acknowledging there are no rules here anymore 🫠
👀Looks like today is a very good time to download all of the IES practice guides! #EduSky ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/pra...
WWC | Practice Guides
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Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · last yr.Hearing from a govt contractor that Dept of Education is terminating What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) contracts. WWC is a website that rigorously evaluates education policies, programs, and products to determine what's effective and not. It's an invaluable tool for school, district, state leaders
Added a few recommendations to this list of Indigenous businesses fo support in BC, from cafes and coffee to apparel and travel
Buy and Shop Indigenous in BC
Support local when you purchase your goods, services, and experience from these Indigenous owned and operated businesses in BC.
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