JM Ducey Educational Consulting LLC

10/10/2024

We could name this post "On the road with the Reading Teachers" Our first mother/daughter training 📚👯

10/06/2022

Artists have galleries 🖼
Physicians “scrub in” 🩻
How do our educators share + grow their craft out there? Spent the morning in studio production curating a series of “best practice” learning experiences. Athletes proudly “share film” of their talents-it’s time educators do also 🙌🏻

08/08/2022

Busy last week!! It is so good to be back with teachers in person + energized for a brand new year. ❤️ Normally my work puts me in front of small groups of admin + alongside teachers in classrooms. On Thursday, I was honored to give the opening keynote to the Principia campus on Brave Teaching 🙌🏻 To every educator who is back at it (including my own daughter) go be great out there - we see you - sand have never needed you more 💪🏻

09/27/2021

Had the privilege of hosting my first IN PERSON training in a year last week! Shout out to the educators from Webster, Principia, Affton, Melville, SLPS and Rockwood who rolled up their sleeves & rocked their learning!📚

08/03/2020

Thank you The Galleries at Heartland Art Club of Kirkwood for allowing me to host a great day of literacy learning in their beautiful gallery alongside educators from six STL County districts LIVE and in person. We wore masks, were socially distant and didn’t skip a beat. Training teachers in the time of Covid has never been more important and more tricky! I’m so excited for part two tomorrow 🙌🏻📚😊

04/24/2020

Love this story:.....in 1949 a school teacher named Eleanor Abbot invented the game Candy Land. She was a patient at the time in the polio ward of a hospital during the polio epidemic. She wanted to give hope and mobility to all the many children afflicted and those under quarantine. Milton Bradley bought the game from her and featured a young boy with a leg brace on the board to intentionally connect with the children with polio. ❤️❤️

04/09/2020

Let’s all be real here... parents, educators and students have never been in this situation before. At best, we are building a temporary plane while flying it. I think if we put these 4 words into action and let go of the rest we will come out on the other side of this better, not worse ❤️

01/28/2020

It’s ALL nonsense. Why are we teaching and evaluating our early readers in non sense word fluency? These words have zero meaning- they aren’t real words. I do understand this is supposed to assess fluency in decoding, but this is a crazy practice... and now we are teaching to this test? How have we gotten here? If we want data on how our readers decode words, can I suggest we give them actual words, or maybe even a book? 😎📚

How this common practice hurts dyslexic kids and makes it harder for them to learn how to read.

01/23/2020

EVERY educator needs to read this and hand a copy to the decision makers in their district. Thank you Sara Holbrook for being so honest and vulnerable...
"Oh, goody. I’m a benchmark. Only guess what? The test prep materials neglected to insert the stanza break....I just put that stanza break in there because when I read it aloud (I’m a performance poet), I pause there. Note: that is not an option among the answers because no one ever asked me why I did it....I apologize to those kids. I apologize to their teachers. Boy howdy, I apologize to the entire state of Texas."

Also: 'How in the name of all that’s moldy did this poem wind up on a proficiency test?'

12/03/2019

It's finals time- the most overwhelming and not wonderful time of the year for our students. So many get bogged down in the "how to" process of "studying" or just haven't developed a successful system and therefor fail from the start. I love how this simple graphic organizer can put all the important pieces together... and will likely look different for everyone, but build success for all.

09/04/2019

I can't remember what I had for dinner last week, but I still remember when I received my first positive phone call...

"Hi Timm and Jean this is Lynn Foy McCrary from Tillman Elementary, everything is fine and great here, I'm just calling to let you know that Elizabeth Ducey (insert a few simple, kind and positive things Lynn noticed)......"

*yes she could have emailed or texted, but there was so much power in that quick conversation!!!


https://www.edutopia.org/blog/power-positive-phone-call-home-elena-aguilar?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=blog-positivecallhome&fbclid=IwAR3Mlj3_aiyyftTCgC970GF2P4o01CtOy_87OWDZZOfzDBGtYv4yb1XL6tE

08/28/2019

Our readers are so much more than levels and data points! Check out how Mollie Grant from The Principia Lower School is keeping track of the independent choice reading her 5th graders are doing... they took shelfies😝 Using their iPads they snapped a pic of their choice books, serves as a way to: advertise their reading, keep the classroom library organized and helps Mollie keeps a visual pulse on what her students choose to read.