PhD mom & product of public schools.
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berrinchuda montoya retweeted
26 May 2025
"Our junior in HS was asked to read the Hunger Games and Night. Hunger Games is written at about the 5th grade reading level and Night, while extremely important, is about 115 pages.
Other things "covered" this year were selections from other texts and movie clips to supplement. Movie clips!!"
So many parents have these stories. I'm one of them.
@ReadSimplified makes a lot of important points here:
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berrinchuda montoya retweeted
26 Apr 2025
The @sfchronicle Editorial Board is over it.
This whole editorial is š„, and the literacy portion is nuclear.
āNearly 60% of our 3rd graders didnāt meet state standardsā for ELA.
āMeanwhile, poverty-stricken red states such as Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama have surged ahead of California in childhood literacy after adopting mandatory foundational literacy teaching and training.ā
@mgpotente @BerrinchudaM @KJWinEducation @careads @SFParents
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berrinchuda montoya retweeted
21 Apr 2025
"The average low-income California fourth grader isĀ aĀ full year behind their counterpart in Mississippi."
Iām glad to see Claude Goldenberg saying it plainly.
@mgpotente @BerrinchudaM @DDCalifornia @meganbaci
21 Apr 2025
As Georgia bans three-cueing and Reading Recovery, California notices its low-income 4th-graders are "a full year behind" similar students in Mississippi.
tinyurl.com/2rhbzhth
#reading #teaching @AndyPierrotti @levarburton @ReadingShanahan @karenvaites @natwexler
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berrinchuda montoya retweeted
30 Jan 2025
In California, 72% of Black 4th graders are *BELOW BASIC* in NAEP reading. Up from 56% 10 years ago.
This in a state that has DOUBLED per pupil spending in the last 10 years. We've thrown money at the problem, and this is the result.
We need better reading policy NOW.
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berrinchuda montoya retweeted
31 Jan 2025
California state superintendent @TonyThurmond is not only ignoring this reading crisis, he is running for governor.
Which would be the ultimate Fail Upward.
@DDCalifornia @meganbaci @mgpotente @SFParents @CAParentPower @mikemalione @BerrinchudaM @minilek @contrarian4data @minilek
30 Jan 2025
Hey, don't forget CA! We're down there at 10%. And we've got 72% (!!??) of Black 4th graders *Below Basic* in reading.
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berrinchuda montoya retweeted
6 Jan 2025
Guess whatās not allowed on the Medical College Admission Test? A calculator. Hereās a pic of my sonās scratch paper from his practice exam yesterday. Note: multi-digit mult & long division. Yes, itās timed, too. Math ed peeps who deride algorithms & recommend use of calculators before children master computations actually worsen learning & widen opportunity gaps.
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berrinchuda montoya retweeted
9 Oct 2024
bostonglobe.com/2024/10/08/mā¦
āIn 2012, Brookline High saw more Black students score as advanced on the state Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System Math test than ever before; 88 percent were Calculus Project participantsā¦
The project runs counter to a recent push to engage high schoolers in math by adding real-world relevancy and substituting classes like data science for algebra II and calculus.ā
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berrinchuda montoya retweeted
25 Sep 2024
An honor to host and learn from Minister Gibb. @ehanford and I agreed that England is about 10-15 years ahead of the US in its embrace and implementation of research-based reading instruction. @AEIeducation
25 Sep 2024
An honour to meet Emily Hanford of āSold a Storyā podcast, a must-listen for anyone who cares about childrenās reading. With AEIās Robert Pondiscio whoās done so much to promote the importance of knowledge in the curriculum. Photo: Aaron Clamage Ā©ļøAEI.ā¦@AEI @ehanford
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berrinchuda montoya retweeted
8 Sep 2024
"Untangling dyslexia myths and misconceptions," good overview in APA Monitor. apa.org/monitor/2024/09/dyslā¦ #dyslexia #scienceofreading
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berrinchuda montoya retweeted
3 Sep 2024
Think twice before using ChatGPT for help with HW. A well designed RCT found that high schoolers solved more practice math problems correctly, but did worse on a test than students who solved the problems on their own. hechingerreport.org/kids-chaā¦
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7 Aug 2024
1. Itās healthy to keep questioning and challenging the field to make the research relevant to teachers.
2. I want to see more Implementation Science in education and reading research.
6 Aug 2024
I thought the more I knew about the science of reading, the better my teaching would become... Newfound doubt has shaken me terribly.
āPlease tell me Iām wrong. I really donāt want to believe that most of the science of reading is irrelevant to teachers.ā
righttoreadproject.com/2024/ā¦
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berrinchuda montoya retweeted
6 Aug 2024
āEvery district initiative lives or dies on a principalās desk.ā
- The fabulous Becky Sullivan from SCOE
Uncomfortably true.
And this is a great thread from principal @allardice_jamie:
Why elementary principals so rarely support literacy initiativesā¦
4 Aug 2024
A missing but vital piece in so many of our conversations and work around literacy (particularly early literacy) is the role of principals and site leaders. District initiatives live or die with the implementation at the sites. š§µ1/10
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berrinchuda montoya retweeted
10 Jul 2024
We are not talking enough about this.
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28 Jun 2024
On a positive note I've never seen such unity before on Twitter
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berrinchuda montoya retweeted
6 Jun 2024
Literacy skills seem to fuel literacy enjoyment, rather than vice versa
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ā¦ "The best-fitting direction-of-causation model showed that skills impacted enjoyment, while the influence in the other direction was zero."
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berrinchuda montoya retweeted
24 May 2024
My podcast Chalk & Talk just surpassed 75,000 downloads! I'm a mathematician & I've interviewed teachers, mathematicians, psychologists, authors on (math) education - primary to calculus. 27 episodes so far & more great guests planned. Check it out! chalkandtalkpodcast.podbean.ā¦
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berrinchuda montoya retweeted
22 May 2024
A much smarter, more equitable policy than Algebra for none. Assign promising students to Alg 1 pipeline and require op-out. | Dallas ISDās Opt-Out Policy Dramatically Boosts Diversity in Its Honors Classes @The74 the74million.org/article/dalā¦
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berrinchuda montoya retweeted
17 May 2024
My daughter is 6 lessons away from finishing this book. She can read like a 1st grader and she's 4. A new student just entered my middle school who is unable to decode. I will end the year by teaching him with this book.
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berrinchuda montoya retweeted
19 Apr 2024
Want to be a reviewer of math instructional materials for the state of California? 2 groups are being recruited: content reviewers (a PhD in math, stats, or comp. sci) and materials reviewers, teachers holding a CA credential with some exp. with standards. cde.ca.gov/ci/ma/im/mathimrcā¦
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