Spec ed math consultant on a quest to boost opportunities for all kids. Seeking & sharing tech tidbits, teacher resources & leadership tools. Tweets are just me

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🎁 FREE GIFT: FULL ROSENSHINE CPD PACK! To celebrate 50 consecutive weeks of ⚗️DistillED, I’ve put together something quite cool… Over the past year, Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction has been one of the most requested topics from teachers and school leaders. So I’ve put together a complete, ready-to-run CPD pack to help schools explore and implement all 10 principles. The download includes: → 10 CPD PowerPoints (ready for 30–45 min sessions) → 10 strategy checklists (practical classroom actions) → 10 planning templates (put principles into action ) → Covers all 10 of Rosenshine’s Principles of Instruction Everything you need to run ten focused CPD sessions — one for each principle. 👉 REPOST and comment ROSENSHINE and I’ll DM you the link. Cheers! ⏰ Available until Sunday 22 March!
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How do you know if your students have developed handwriting fluency? Take our free eLearning module to learn about two assessments designed to determine if your students can quickly retrieve letters from memory and write them legibly: irrc.education.uiowa.edu/lif…
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🚨 New episode with @sarahpowellphd is live! We talk about what the Science of Math movement is, why it’s gained momentum, and what a statement by the NCSM gets wrong about the Science of Math. Episode links below ⬇️
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I have just pushed live a MASSIVE update of my Mr Barton Maths website - all 100% free. If you find it useful, please help spread the word by sharing this post 🙏
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Special Attraction: A Premiere of the latest Chalk & Talk with Anna Stokke! Join Us for researchED Atlantic Canada (Sat Oct 25/25). Yes, that's Anita Archer, one of the world's leading researchers on #explicitinstruction Ty @rastokke for this special episode! #cdned
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Math Fact Intervention Resource update (M.I.N.D. 2.0 - Facts on Fire). I have been collaborating with teachers this last year in an effort to provide a new set of resources that are designed to provide some fact fluency activities that are a little easier to implement and sustain across the school year (i.e., more teacher friendly). Three major adaptations were made. First, we added more skills and worked hard to bolster our Kindergarten and 1st grade resources. Second, we incorporated small sets with Taped Problems to ensure accurate responding and merged this with a systematic interleaving for the retrieval practice as the problem sets get larger. Lastly, student workbooks consisting of anywhere between 20-45 daily lessons can be printed off and powerpoint slide decks are provided to guide each lesson. It is our hope that this will provide teachers with daily practice activities that will range from 5-8 min that will take little to no prep time after the workbooks are printed and the slide decks are downloaded. While it may take a few days to get the hang of, both teachers and students get the routine down quickly and appreciate the structure and predictability. As always, all materials are free. I will be adding to the site quite regularly as we get a few of the links completed that are under construction and get the old website materials on the new site. Please check out the Media section where there are a variety of resources if you are interested in the why and how's of the program including a podcast interview with @rastokke Chalk & Talk and trainings from the PaTTan Virtual Math Conference earlier this summer. Lastly, the amazing and talented @StamStam193 who was kind enough to pilot and record the core intervention activities of the program with her classroom (check it out at the bottom of the Facts on Fire page). Enjoy! brianponcy.wixsite.com/.../m…

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25 Jul 2025
📚 GIVEAWAY TIME! 📚 The Scaffolding Effect by @MrsBallAP & @lamb_heart_tea is out now! Full of practical ways to support every student. Want a free copy? All you have to do is: ✅ Follow us 🔁 RT this post The winner will be announced on Friday, 1st August, at 2pm. Good luck!
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Here is the updated scope and sequence with criteria for the M.I.N.D. 2.0 which will be released in August. drive.google.com/file/d/129P…
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22 Apr 2025
📣 Attention Pre-Service Teachers! Get ahead this summer with our free, virtual Math Conference: tinyurl.com/PaMathConf Spread the word! @statesystem @CheyneyUniv @CUP_Education @ESUniversity @ESUCollegeofEd @EdinboroSped @IUPedu @KutztownU @SecEdKU @LockHavenUniv @mansfieldu
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Such a great event & inspiring, lovely colleagues! Go to this one!
🎉🎊🥳 SAVE THE DATE - June 6-7, 2025 ResearchED returns to Toronto. Stay tuned to know who's coming to speak. 🔥🔥🔥 Requesting a repost! @C_Hendrick @MrZachG @tombennett71 @S_Oberle @JimHewittOISE @rastokke @P_A_Kirschner @Educhatter @PNeerja @WNYEdAlliance @johnmighton
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EXPLICIT TEACHING ESSENTIALS! Boosting learning and participation with these evidence-based methods: ✅ 1. TAPPLE: A reliable method for checking understanding and keeping lessons moving. 🤝 2. Active Participation: Engage students by getting them to say, do, or write something to elicit evidence of learning. ⚖️ 3. Rule of Two: Provide a worked example, then give a similar matching problem for students to tackle. 🏆 4. 80% Success Rate: Strive for high success to ensure readiness for the next step. 🏗️ 5. Fade Scaffolds: Gradually shift support—first tell (fade), then ask (fade), and remind students as needed.
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We're recruiting Grades 4 and 5 teachers to implement a fraction intervention for the upcoming school year! Let me know if you're interested. Can be anywhere in the US!
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A “Razor” is a rule of thumb that simplifies decision making. Here are 16 Razors every person should know:
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Amazing sessions at ResearchED Canada #rEDTO24@DTWillingham⁩ ⁦@C_Hendrick@P_A_Kirschner⁩ ⁦@rastokke
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Totally agree with that message from #researchedwarr2024. Always include this slide in any deck.
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"Before you ask teachers to do something else, you should take something off their plate." - @dylanwiliam kicking off ResearchED Warrington on de-implementation... 🔥 #researchedwarr2024
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#2 all the way. Companies selling resources need to make them easy to use. Districts need to ask hard questions about on demand implementation tools necessitated by teacher turnover.
Unpopular opinion: fidelity is way overrated. When studies show low results researchers often blame low fidelity. Two problems with this: 1. Studies that track fidelity usually show lower results. 2. A good program should be easy to follow. If fidelity is difficult that’s a problem with the program. Even worse, this focus on research fidelity makes teachers and schools think fidelity is important. Personally I’ve never taught a program with fidelity in my life. I don’t even teach my own language program with fidelity. My advice for other teachers: Don’t worry about fidelity. Worry about what works for your classroom.
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Shawna Veit retweeted
I spent the day at @HsAvondale with @_gmdc, Kowalski & Kidder watching @BTCthinks in action! ❤️ all the diff VNPSs! Thanks to @sveit #248math
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