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S1-02. Background knowledge and education reform: Robert Pondiscio

Science of Reading: The Podcast

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The Disbelief of a First Grade Teacher

"I really had very few preconceived notions about what good teaching and learning look like other than what I was being told in my PD and my master's classes, et cetera," he says. "The South Bronx District 7 where I taught was, as far as I know, the lowest performing district in New York City." The school was filled with, by and large, people trying hard and failing - not despite their training, but because of it.

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