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Shawn Datchuk
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Dir. Iowa Reading Research Center & Prof of Special Education. I study 👀 📚 & ✍️. Tweets/opinions my own. Sometimes called “Dr. Ketchup”
Skateboarding on a Sunday with my lil guy @ an elementary school parking lot listening to Beastie Boys 🤌🏻
July 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Born to be cool like Grandpere from Daniel Tiger but forced to respond to emails on a Friday
July 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
These days my writing time is a lot like those Spirit Halloween stores - it pops up once a year and it’s kind of scary when it does
July 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Happy Father’s Day!
June 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Excited for the launch of a new cursive handwriting application today! @iareading.bsky.social
CLIFTER

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June 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Join us to learn about a new, FREE application and eLearning course on cursive handwriting @iareading.bsky.social on June 2nd! uiowa.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
May 20, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Me: “How do I make the most of my time as a mid-career faculty?”

A tired full professor:
May 17, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Live look at my sons when my wife says she made pizza rolls for dinner
April 28, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Start of Fall / end of Spring
April 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
12 years later, happy anniversary to my boo
April 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Me headed to work the Monday after daylight savings
March 10, 2025 at 3:30 AM
At the “hyping up both kids to race each other in a Burger King parking lot while they wear paper crowns so we all don’t lose it in the car” part of a long car ride home
March 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Up way way past bed time - Happy Mardi Gras
March 4, 2025 at 4:54 AM
A great Sunday of parades in NOLA
March 3, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Will you be at #CEC2025?

Interested in learning about handwriting instruction?

Come to my session March 13th bright and early at 8am 😎
February 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Teachers, trying to explain universal screening to parents? Use the @iareading.bsky.social letter builder to create custom information to send home

irrc.education.uiowa.edu/blog/2025/02...
February 20, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Early 🐦 registration is now open for the Iowa Science of Reading Summit! Learn from experts on literacy and help form a community of Iowa and Midwest science of reading educators!

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February 18, 2025 at 11:52 PM
If you choo-choo choose to learn about ways to improve writing, then stop by my two sessions at #PlainTalkNOLA a couple days before valentine’s
February 11, 2025 at 11:59 PM
On my way to #PlainTalkNOLA so I had to give my boo her Valentine’s Day present early
February 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Me realizing I can go to bed earlier if the Super Bowl is a blowout
February 10, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Dr. Keller Young, postdoctoral scholar @iareading.bsky.social, presenting research on cursive handwriting instruction #pcrc2025 👏🏻✍🏻📝
February 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Attending #PlainTalkNola? Join me for two sessions on research-based ✍️ instruction on Wednesday the 12th!
January 31, 2025 at 8:31 PM
1st king cake of the season
January 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I think people of a certain age with lil kids should talk more how there is a direct line between these two characters
December 31, 2024 at 6:23 PM
“There’s more than 1 way to eat a donut” - my 3 y.o. eats it in circles around the center.

Officially in the running to replace the yucky “more than 1 way to skin a cat”
December 24, 2024 at 4:12 PM