Monthly Archives: December 2018

RIP John Taylor Gatto

John Gatto was my mentor teacher my first year of teaching in NYC circa 1990. I think he’d already been named NYC Teacher of the Year twice by that time although I didn’t know it. He would leave teaching the … Continue reading

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Pondiscio is Right; Pondiscio is Wrong.

On Standards and Content Pondiscio is right. He argues almost daily for standards in skill acquisition… often focusing on issues of early reading. He regularly calls for a return to explicit phonics instruction.(Right there with you, RP.)  Decoding as a … Continue reading

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