Kentucky Reading Reform

06/25/2024

Our fight is slowly paying off! ALL kids across the Commonwealth will benefit from high quality evidence based literacy instruction. Time to stop being number 48 in reading proficiency

Kentucky educators and administrators from across the state came together for the Kentucky Reads to Succeed Summer Conference to learn from panelists about ways to incorporate high-quality instructional resources into their classrooms to create high-quality learning for their

06/21/2024

Way to go KDE and legislators like James A Tipton For House of Representatives and Steve West for State Senate who have worked tirelessly for ALL kids in Kentucky to have access to high quality literacy instruction!

03/20/2024

Just a reminder as to why we need HB612 to PASS the Senate - because the 3-cueing system of teaching Reading obviously does Not Work! 👇🏼

03/19/2024

CALL TO ACTION!

If you are a KY resident please read! There is important legislation related to reading instruction that needs our help.

House bill 612 has been passed in the house and is now in the senate. We need to have this bill heard. Please call the KY legislative center and ask that HB 612 be sent to the education committee.

Once you give them the message that you want HB 612 sent to the education committee they will ask you a few questions about yourself and who you want you message sent to. We want it sent to all of senate leadership and the members of the education committee.

This bill will remove outdated, ineffective instructional methods from public schools at all levels of instruction and ensure schools are using current research in alignment with the science of reading. My oldest was detrimentaly affected by these instructional methods, and it is one of the reasons my youngest was pulled to private school.

It also ensures colleges are teaching the science of reading in teacher prep programs. I’ll post a link to the full bill in the comments. Here is the number to call, it will only take 5 minutes of your time. 1-800-372-7181

You can ask others from KY to call as well. This is time sensitive, so the sooner you call the better!

Feel free to copy this message and paste to your personal page.

Comment below to help others see the message 🙂

We need all kids being taught to read in a way they are able to learn. This bill helps accomplish that goal.

03/15/2024

Call, email, text your Senators to vote in Favor of HB 612!

This week, HB 612 passed the House. The measure heads to the Senate for consideration.

03/15/2024

University of Delaware (after studying for years, and on thousands of students) found 3-cueing methods to be more harmful in the long run to struggling readers. Now states are banning its use altogether. KY needs to do the same.

Leaders in eight states took action during the 2023 legislative session to include an outright ban on three-cueing. Learn more here.

03/03/2024

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/education/2024/03/01/house-bill-612-could-ban-reading-recovery-in-kentucky-schools/72763387007/

Thank you Representative James Tipton this is much needed and long overdue!!!

The move is another step toward banning balanced literacy instruction, a method that numerous studies have said is harmful to struggling readers.

02/24/2024

A mother and psychologist conducted her own reading assessment of her daughter to see if she really could read. This is what we mean by “3-Cueing” and why it is the most ineffective way of teaching kids to read. Ask your kids to do the same.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are currently helping our 1st grade daughter through distance learning. This has opened our eyes to the ways that kids are b...

01/30/2024

From KDE:

“Kentucky Reads to Succeed Summer Conference Date Set for June 20 (FREE)

The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) Office of Teaching and Learning (OTL) Division of Early Literacy invites you to the first annual Kentucky Reads to Succeed Summer Conference on June 20 at the Central Bank Center, formerly the Lexington Convention Center.

Keynote speaker and educational journalist Emily Hanford, host of the Sold a Story podcast, the second-most-shared show on Apple Podcasts in 2023 and one of Time magazine’s top three podcasts of the year, has been covering education for American Public Media since 2008. She has won numerous awards for her work, including the EWA Public Service Award in 2019 for Hard Words and the 2017 Excellence in Media Reporting on Education Research Award from the American Educational Research Association.

The conference will require registration, but is free to Kentucky K-12 public educators and will offer focused learning paths to meet the needs of teachers and administrators.

Attendees will learn from KDE OTL consultants and partners about:

Evidence-based instructional shifts for literacy;
The benefits of structured literacy;
Why high-quality instructional resources matter; and
Available resources for implementing the Read to Succeed Act.

Mark your calendar for this June 20 event, and please stay tuned for registration information coming soon.”

01/20/2024

A great resource to check out!

12/11/2023

https://www.kqed.org/news/11969236/apm-reports?fbclid=IwAR3_u8yEtJiPPA-sLWm1mShvQCHMzQVoyZIZ2Wc9icPQOO8Kkl9TSOxe3ek

Another study proving what we've already known!!

“Flipping a coin would actually be better” for identifying struggling readers, one researcher said of the test used in dozens of California school districts — including, until recently, San Francisco’s.