🙅‍♀🖋 Put your pens away! 🖋🙅‍♂️

#NoPensDay is back, so buckle up for the biggest Show and Tell ever!

Teachers, register your setting now to get a free Classroom Pack filled with pen-free lesson plans and activities🌟👇
speechandlanguage.org.uk/no-pens-day/

— Speech and Language UK (@SpeechAndLangUK)
9:01 AM • Nov 2, 2023

Our most up-to-date Playbook, along with all of our instructional routine checklists are available to download:
serpentineps.wa.edu.au/images/service…

— Serpentine Primary School (@SerpentinePS)
7:44 AM • Nov 17, 2023

Announcing the launch of the TBI Youth Criminal Justice website, a resource for & about children & youth with #TBI in the criminal justice system.  @ABI_Justice@nicj_network@with_initiative@braininjury_CAN@TheCompassion11@OntarioBIA

— Catherine Wiseman-Hakes (@HakesWiseman)
5:05 PM • Nov 13, 2023

In just 2 minutes and 17 seconds- less time than it takes to sit in drive-thru for your coffee- you can learn from literacy expert @LouisaMoats the importance of Spelling and how it is deeply interconnected to the reading process.

“Spelling is a visible record of language… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

— Mme Lockhart (@MmeLockhartLDSB)
2:44 PM • Nov 17, 2023

How Learning Works: Three Principles from the Science of Learning

— Carl Hendrick (@C_Hendrick)
12:17 PM • Nov 12, 2023

Over the last few months, I've listened to hundreds of podcast episodes and organized them by topic. I created this blog post to be an easy, free reference for anyone who wants to learn more about the science of reading. I hope you find it helpful!

themeasuredmom.com/podcast-index/?

— Anna Geiger (@measuredmom)
11:33 PM • Nov 12, 2023

"I wish I would've gone out harder at the beginning of that marathon."

- No one, ever.

— Dr. Scott Carlin (@scottcarlinpt)
12:36 PM • Nov 12, 2023

The November graphic is here! I created this simplified graphic to help my undergrad students visualize the implementation process. Of course, each step is much complex than that but it can be a good starting point for novice learners. Download here: drive.google.com/file/d/1AyGxB5…

— Rouzana Komesidou (@rkomesidou)
9:26 AM • Nov 16, 2023

Nice write up of The Social Instinct here - specifically on why we’re wired to compare ourselves to others.

— Prof Nichola Raihani (@nicholaraihani)
7:29 AM • Nov 14, 2023

So exciting to see our BEST paper led by Ana Trebacz published in @ijlcd - Building Early Sentences Therapy is effective  in improving expressive language standard scores with large effect size compared to Treatment as usual & sign is an active ingredient

— Professor Cristina McKean (@cristina_mckean)
4:53 PM • Nov 17, 2023

😟Feeling compelled to remind us all of this 2020 systematic lit review & meta-analysis of research on children’s screen use & language development. Pls see below. (There’s also the issue of adults being on screens, which I’ll tackle in a future post. . .)
jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

— Nell K. Duke (@nellkduke)
12:37 AM • Nov 18, 2023

Today we have summarised a paper examining the role of feedback in learning for children with DLD. Watch the video for the main findings!

youtu.be/lSYIZLCgNx8?fe…

— Engage with Developmental Language Disorder (@Engage_DLD)
9:12 AM • Nov 14, 2023

This was a great study to be involved in. Updating the Pragmatics Profile with @AndySmidt Susie Summers & two fabulous Honours students; Vanessa Tan & Gabi Herman. Using a modified Delphi method, we now have a contemporary version of the Pragmatics Profile & available online! 👇

— Dr Natalie Munro (@NatalieMunro3)
11:22 PM • Nov 17, 2023

Why disclose my stutter to my students? To be honest with them, show  through actions that diversity is richness, and create an inclusive  classroom atmosphere.

— Andrea Callegaro (@andreacallegaro)
1:20 PM • Nov 11, 2023

A brain injury removed my ability to perceive time. Here's what it's like in a world without it.

The brain’s perception of time is abstract. Here's what happens when it gets seriously distorted. #time#perception

— Anita Leirfall (@anitaleirfall)
2:37 PM • Nov 11, 2023

This is *fantastic*: typographer and lawyer Matthew Butterick has filed a witness statement  defending the decision of a lawyer who, in accordance with Typography for Lawyers 2d, used *correct* double spacing (24pt for 12pt font) not MS Words’s ‘double’ (not really) spacing.

— Legal Style Blog (@legalstyleblog)
4:14 PM • Nov 15, 2023