In my story (linked to in the first post of this thread), Shanahan suggests ideas for explicit reading comprehension instruction (4/4)

Teachers often cite the Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky’s “zone of proximal development” to justify giving students books that are neither too easy nor too hard. But Shanahan says that’s a misunderstanding of Vygotsky’s work. (3/4)

When students learn reading in small groups, where they read different texts depending on their assessed reading level, they are reading books they can already ready fairly easily without much guidance. That doesn't help boost their comprehension, Shanahan argues. (2/4)

No individual students are tracked. Advan Research Corp. collects and analyzes data from mobile phones around the world for business purposes, such as figuring out how many people visit a particular retail store. The researchers were able to obtain this data for schools in one Florida district.

Fascinating aspect of the study: it's possible to estimate how many students are on their cellphones during the school day through companies that monitor mobile activity. Here is pre and post ban in one school district in FL. (2/2)

the SEL programs that are getting results were evaluated by outside researchers and randomly assigned schools or teachers to deliver the lessons, like in a drug trial, and compared test scores and grades of students who didn't get the lessons.

But this study shows that there can be academic spillover benefits from high-quality and well-implemented SEL lessons. A list of them is linked to in my story. (5/5) hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

Not all SEL programs are necessarily effective or can be expected to produce the academic gains that the Yale team calculated. (4/5)

Yale researchers summarized 12 years of evidence, from 2008 to 2020, and it finds that 30 different SEL programs, which put themselves through 40 rigorous evaluations involving almost 34,000 students, tended to produce “moderate” academic benefits. (3/5)

3: Do the SEL programs being sold to schools work at all? A lot of snake oil out there? A new review of the evidence helps answer some of these big questions.... (2/5)

Thank you

We'll be discussing my story, "Inaccurate, impossible: Experts knock new Trump plan to collect college admissions data" hechingerreport.org/proof-points...