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Teacher autonomy is often framed as the gold standard of professionalism in education. But we need to ask a harder question:

Autonomy for who? And at what cost?

Because when every teacher is left to “do what works for them”, students do

For more than two decades, Finland has been held up as the gold standard of education reform. In education circles, references to the “Finnish model” have almost become shorthand for what schooling should aspire to be.

But the reality is

I adore teachers. I am one. I work with them every day.

But student outcomes must come before adult comfort.

If our instructional choices are not improving literacy and numeracy outcomes, we have a professional responsibility to question them, the

Weekend recounts were a staple in many classrooms, but when we better understand the subskills required for writing development, we can make more instructionally precise choices about how we use precious literacy time.

In the same way strong readers

Feel free to ask if you have any questions about these!

Special mentions:

- 21st century skillz
- 6+1 Writing Traits
- CAFE/DEAR Reading
- Productive Struggle is good 😮&zwj;💨
- Edutech!

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👀 Over the weekend, I read the kind of blog that has you punching the air in agreement. Beyond Belief: Reframing Teaching as a Science Based Profession by Jim Hewitt and Nidhi Sachdeva captures something that sits at the heart of so many issues in e

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Leah Myers acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land where she works and lives, the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people of the Kulin nation, and pays her respects to First Nation and Torres Strait Elders past and present.

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