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Deena Seifert

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Beth Lawrence

We are excited to have SchoolAI as a sponsor for the Summer of AI Series on Transformative Principal. Please visit schoolai.com to save your teachers 10 hours per week. Literacy nerds Beth Lawrence and Deena Seifert cofounders of infercabulary.com  Infercabulary is a web-based k–12 interactive tool for helping kids improve vocabulary and skills. speed up learning by making learning vocabulary like Avidly reading. We tend to make words simpler with oral language than authors when writing. SLPs by trade. Why should we help kids learn vocabulary? TedX talk 65% of students aren’t capable of comprehending text on grade level. Unless you know 95% of words in a text, it will impact your comprehension. A foundational skill that needs to exist is a strong vocabulary. Breadth and depth of vocabulary. If you only have a surface level understanding of a word, you can’t link it to more A child needs 10–12 exposures to a word in a variety of contexts to understand the word.   Tiered words. Tier 1: These are the common, everyday words that most children enter school knowing already. Since we don’t need to teach these, this is a tier without tears! Tier 2: This tier consists of words that are used across the content areas and are important for students to know and understand. Included here are process words like analyze and evaluate that students will run into on many standardized tests and that are also used at the university level, in many careers, and in everyday life. We really want to get these words into students’ long-term memory. Tier 3: This tier consists of content-specific vocabulary—the words that are often defined in textbooks or glossaries. These words are important for imparting ideas during lessons and helping to build students’ background knowledge. Over-generalization and under-generalization When the author is kind enough to give you context clues. How to help kids who hate learning about reading. Semantic reasoning - Beta tests showed quickly that assumptions were wrong about their intended target student. How to be a transformative principal? Deena: Bringing words to life. Beth: Do additional homework to understand importance of vocabulary!  Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, has been publishing high quality guidebooks, magazines and educator-focused professional development books since 1959. John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development materials that are research-based, practical, and focused on the key topics proven essential in today’s and tomorrow’s schools. John Catt amplifies fresh voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized around the world for their fresh perspectives and proven strategies to drive success in modern schools and classrooms. Learn more about these professional development publications that are easy to implement for your entire faculty, and are both quickly digestible and rigorous, by visiting https://us.johncattbookshop.com/.  Visit this page to learn more about bulk orders and how to bring John Catt’s research-based materials to your school: https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors Learn about some of John Catt Educational’s newest publications:    What the Academy Taught Us: Improving Schools from the Bottom-Up in a Top-Down Transformation Era by Eric Kalenze    Be More Toddler: Leadership Lessons From Our Little Learners by Emma Turner    A Quiet Education: Challenging the Extrovert Ideal in Our Schools by Jamie Thom    Rosenshine’s Principles in Action by Tom Sherrington    The Thinking School: Developing a Dynamic Learning Community by Kulvarn Atwal    The researchED Guide to Explicit and Direct Instruction: An evidence-informed guide for teachers by Various Authors   SponsorsSave your teachers hours per week with SchoolAI. It's not just a tool, it's a partner in the classroom. With school AI teachers can plan courses in minutes. Get realtime learning data and provide one-on-one tutor tutoring. Plus it's free for teachers. Go to SchoolAI.com/tpWe're so grateful to our sponsor AI Coach by Edthena. AI Coach enables your teachers to go through coaching cycles based on their own needs. The virtual coach guides teachers to reflect on their teaching, set a goal, and create an action plan… all based on gathering classroom evidence. It gives support between PD days  and other coaching cycles.Get a free trial for your teachers here.

We are excited to have SchoolAI as a sponsor for the Summer of AI Series on Transformative Principal. Please visit <a href="https://schoolai.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">schoolai.com</a> to save your teachers 10 hours per week. Literacy nerds Beth Lawrence and Deena Seifert cofounders of <a href="http://infercabulary.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">infercabulary.com</a> <ul> <li>Infercabulary is a web-based k–12 interactive tool for helping kids improve vocabulary and skills.</li> <li>speed up learning by making learning vocabulary like</li> <li>Avidly reading.</li> <li>We tend to make words simpler with oral language than authors when writing.</li> <li>SLPs by trade.</li> <li>Why should we help kids learn vocabulary?</li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrQxOuWLwzA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TedX talk</a></li> <li>65% of students aren’t capable of comprehending text on grade level.</li> <li>Unless you know 95% of words in a text, it will impact your comprehension.</li> <li>A foundational skill that needs to exist is a strong vocabulary.</li> <li>Breadth and depth of vocabulary.</li> <li>If you only have a surface level understanding of a word, you can’t link it to more</li> <li>A child needs 10–12 exposures to a word in a variety of contexts to understand the word.</li> <li> <a href="http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/sf114047/chapters/The-Three-Tiers-of-Vocabulary-Development.aspx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Tiered words</a>.</li> <li>Tier 1: These are the common, everyday words that most children enter school knowing already. Since we don’t need to teach these, this is a tier without tears!</li> <li>Tier 2: This tier consists of words that are used across the content areas and are important for students to know and understand. Included here are process words like analyze and evaluate that students will run into on many standardized tests and that are also used at the university level, in many careers, and in everyday life. We really want to get these words into students’ long-term memory.</li> <li>Tier 3: This tier consists of content-specific vocabulary—the words that are often defined in textbooks or glossaries. These words are important for imparting ideas during lessons and helping to build students’ background knowledge.</li> <li>Over-generalization and under-generalization</li> <li>When the author is kind enough to give you context clues.</li> <li>How to help kids who hate learning about reading.</li> <li>Semantic reasoning -</li> <li>Beta tests showed quickly that assumptions were wrong about their intended target student.</li> <li>How to be a transformative principal? Deena: <a href="https://amzn.to/38gjM1i" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bringing words to life</a>. Beth: Do additional homework to understand importance of vocabulary!</li> </ul> Today’s Transformative Principal sponsor, <a href="https://us.johncattbookshop.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">John Catt Educational</a>, has been publishing high quality guidebooks, magazines and educator-focused professional development books since 1959. John Catt’s mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development materials that are research-based, practical, and focused on the key topics proven essential in today’s and tomorrow’s schools. John Catt amplifies fresh voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized around the world for their fresh perspectives and proven strategies to drive success in modern schools and classrooms. Learn more about these professional development publications that are easy to implement for your entire faculty, and are both quickly digestible and rigorous, by visiting <a href="https://us.johncattbookshop.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://us.johncattbookshop.com/</a>.  Visit this page to learn more about bulk orders and how to bring John Catt’s research-based materials to your school: <a href="https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors</a> Learn about some of John Catt Educational’s newest publications: <ul> <li> <a href="https://us.johncattbookshop.com/collections/frontpage/products/what-the-academy-taught-us-improving-schools-from-the-bottom-up-in-a-top-down-transformation-era" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> What the Academy Taught Us: Improving Schools from the Bottom-Up in a Top-Down Transformation Era</a> by Eric Kalenze </li> <li> <a href="https://us.johncattbookshop.com/collections/frontpage/products/be-more-toddler-a-leadership-education-from-our-little-learners" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Be More Toddler: Leadership Lessons From Our Little Learners</a> by Emma Turner </li> <li> <a href="https://us.johncattbookshop.com/collections/frontpage/products/a-quiet-education-challenging-the-extrovert-ideal-in-our-schools" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> A Quiet Education: Challenging the Extrovert Ideal in Our Schools</a> by Jamie Thom </li> <li> <a href="https://us.johncattbookshop.com/products/rosenshines-principles-in-action?_pos=2&amp;_sid=54a7afd39&amp;_ss=r" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Rosenshine’s Principles in Action</a> by Tom Sherrington </li> <li> <a href="https://us.johncattbookshop.com/products/the-thinking-school-developing-a-dynamic-learning-community?_pos=1&amp;_sid=45fc23f2e&amp;_ss=r" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> The Thinking School: Developing a Dynamic Learning Community</a> by Kulvarn Atwal </li> <li> <a href="https://us.johncattbookshop.com/collections/frontpage/products/the-researched-guide-to-explicit-and-direct-instruction-an-evidence-informed-guide-for-teachers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> The researchED Guide to Explicit and Direct Instruction: An evidence-informed guide for teachers</a> by Various Authors </li> </ul> SponsorsSave your teachers hours per week with <a href="https://schoolai.com/tp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SchoolAI</a>. It's not just a tool, it's a partner in the classroom. With school AI teachers can plan courses in minutes. Get realtime learning data and provide one-on-one tutor tutoring. Plus it's free for teachers. Go to <a href="https://schoolai.com/tp" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SchoolAI.com/tp</a>We're so grateful to our sponsor <a href="https://edthena.com/bepodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AI Coach by Edthena</a>. AI Coach enables your teachers to go through coaching cycles based on their own needs. The virtual coach guides teachers to reflect on their teaching, set a goal, and create an action plan… all based on gathering classroom evidence. It gives support between PD days  and other coaching cycles.Get a free trial for your teachers <a href="https://edthena.com/bepodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.

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