Additionally: bsky.app/profile/jess...

I remember when they were in a dead heat with The Alarm

It had issues but was so innovative and still works pretty well, imo

FWIW I liked the first two of what’s turned into a limp-along franchise!

“Strong floor, no ceiling” is visually nonsensical.

My theory is that someone asked ChatGPT to come up with a version of ”clear eyes, can’t lose” but not that, maybe something abundance-related. Anyway: fail.

Instead of snaps, whistle notes 🐬

Holy shit a Wiseman sighting

(Someday I will tell this story on IG, but my in-laws follow me there and I don't want to re-animate the whole thing.)

We somehow inherited the "Cinderella pot" (it's pink) which was the creation of a "very famous potter" which E and his brothers were obsessed with. "Cinderella salad" went in it, which I think is ambrosia salad?

It's the ugliest pot I've ever seen in my life and it's now locked in our basement.

Nothing makes kids more cynical about school than understanding that what the school is making them do is worthless. Not recommended!

This is a good example of a pernicious metric: a problem is uncovered (X number of kids can't read by grade level Y), and a response is selected (make The One Program That Fixes Reading required curriculum). If schools don't hit the target, it's the teachers' fault for not teaching RR correctly.

These programs are applied in good faith. But single-approach programs like Reading Recovery and ECRI are efforts to fix a complex problem with a simple response. Inability to read typically requires an individualized program (IEP), not throwing a single lever.

This was in 5th grade. It didn’t help dyslexic kids at all, of course, and it frustrated the kids who were reading at grade level already. Certain parents switched their kids to private Catholic school, to escape ECRI specifically.

Reading Recovery seems like a reheated version of ECRI.