Senior Leader in Association Management ★ Exploring and Advocating for Early Childhood Literacy ★ Helping Struggling Readers Catch -Up ★ Let's Connect
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Billy Molasso, Ph.D. retweeted
LitCon ’27 is looking for educators ready to share what’s working in K–8 literacy.
Practical. Evidence-based. Honest.
Submit your proposal by June 30. literacyconference.org/call-…
#edchat #k8litcon #teacherPD
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Billy Molasso, Ph.D. retweeted
"The Science of Reading is big money... the same researchers who conducted and/or promoted the NRP “five pillars” of reading instruction have lucrative contracts" substack.com/@teachingindang…
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Balanced literacy = reading plus integrated writing
balanced literacy = mix of phonics and whole word approach
to me phonics and whole word approach are diametrically opposed. there is no acceptable quantity of whole word instruction in my book
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Billy Molasso, Ph.D. retweeted
If your literacy approach is grounded in research AND works in real classrooms…why aren’t you presenting it yet? LitCon ’27 is your opportunity.
Submit your proposal and join the conversation. literacyconference.org/call-…
#LitCon27
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Billy Molasso, Ph.D. retweeted
May 14
Reading scores fell in 47 of 50 states since 2015. That’s the exact window of the Science of Reading movement’s rise. The approved curricula didn’t save us. The people who sold them are now proposing a national database to make the mandate permanent. Follow the money.
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Billy Molasso, Ph.D. retweeted
LitCon ’27 is raising the bar for literacy conversations with REAL talk from REAL educators.
If you’re ready to challenge thinking and push practice forward, this is your stage.
Submit a session proposal: literacyconference.org/call-…
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The funniest thing about this tweet is listing McMahon as a senior member of the administration. Lol.
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RT @KerryKennedyRFK: Are you alive today? If you didn’t die from COVID, HIV/AIDS, Ebola, SARS, swine flu, anthrax, tuberculosis, malaria, o…
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Billy Molasso, Ph.D. retweeted
Apr 13
There are only 3 options here.
a) Trump is so stupid that he thinks that the image really did depict him as a doctor.
b) Trump is completely senile now, and we should 25th Amendment him.
c) Trump committed Blasphemy.
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Billy Molasso, Ph.D. retweeted
Apr 12
How it started >>> how it's going
Hanford 2018 >>> Loewus 2026
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Billy Molasso, Ph.D. retweeted
The "science of reading" is a hoax! Don't mandate it!
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Billy Molasso, Ph.D. retweeted
Don't be fooled! There is no "science of reading."
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Billy Molasso, Ph.D. retweeted
Apr 4
The International Literacy Educators Coalition open.substack.com/pub/therea…
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Billy Molasso, Ph.D. retweeted
"In both England and the US, we have growing evidence that once again the swing to reading skills has short-changed comprehension." paulthomas701128.substack.co…
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Truth.
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LETRS
1) Does not accurately represent the science on reading
2) Science doesn't support that LETRS training increases student reading proficiency
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Billy Molasso, Ph.D. retweeted
Mar 30
Fun fact: States have spent 10s of 10s of millions on LETRS training ... that scientific research shows does not raise student reading proficiency! Where is media coverage of that?
Research linked here paulthomas701128.substack.co…
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Billy Molasso, Ph.D. retweeted
"Throwing around a phrase like 'causes harm' is not harmless. That kind of rhetoric matters, and it understandably struck a nerve with our community of literacy experts who’ve spent decades doing the actual work."
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Billy Molasso, Ph.D. retweeted
"The 'evidence-based literacy instruction aligned to the Science of Reading' that is described in the new federal Science of Reading Act – 2026 (H. R. 7890) is a political construct, not a scientific one."
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Billy Molasso, Ph.D. retweeted
In a decision issued by the Tenth District Court of Appeals of Ohio, the court affirmed LCNA’s standing in its lawsuit against Ohio’s unconstitutional literacy mandate, reversing the earlier dismissal and allowing the case to move forward. myliteracycouncil.org/lcna_w…
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Billy Molasso, Ph.D. retweeted
"The message to teachers was clear: adhere to the lesson scripts and structures as closely as possible... In our linguistically diverse context, this approach felt overwhelming, constraining, and, most troubling, disrespectful to struggling learners." ow.ly/ZepL50YxwJb
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