wheelhouze
@wheelhouze.bsky.social
Hey parents! Substitute teacher & tutor exposing what's really happening in our schools📚Former daycare owner + 15 years in law enforcement = I've seen it all. Writer @ The Parenting Revolution (Substack). Real strategies for real families. Coffee-fueled! ☕
Happy New Year. 2026 is when we start building from the ground up - literally from age 0. The revolution doesn't begin in 3rd grade. It starts in the nursery.
January 1, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Happy New Year. 2026 is when we start building from the ground up - literally from age 0. The revolution doesn't begin in 3rd grade. It starts in the nursery.
Everything we talked about this year—curriculum, testing, interventions—happens too late. The work that matters most happens before kindergarten. That's where I'm focusing in 2026
December 31, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Everything we talked about this year—curriculum, testing, interventions—happens too late. The work that matters most happens before kindergarten. That's where I'm focusing in 2026
The weight you carry—worrying about their future, fighting for their education, trying to get it right; your child may not understand it now. But they feel your love in every decision. That's what they'll remember.
December 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The weight you carry—worrying about their future, fighting for their education, trying to get it right; your child may not understand it now. But they feel your love in every decision. That's what they'll remember.
December: Exposed balanced literacy as rebranded whole language, named failed curricula, distinguished dyslexia from teaching failure. January: Early childhood—what kids need before kindergarten, how to recognize quality care.
December 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
December: Exposed balanced literacy as rebranded whole language, named failed curricula, distinguished dyslexia from teaching failure. January: Early childhood—what kids need before kindergarten, how to recognize quality care.
✨2025: Built this platform exposing balanced literacy, showing dyslexia over-diagnosis, demanding accountability. 2026: Focusing on where it all begins—the first five years. Let's build it right from the start.
December 29, 2025 at 5:59 PM
✨2025: Built this platform exposing balanced literacy, showing dyslexia over-diagnosis, demanding accountability. 2026: Focusing on where it all begins—the first five years. Let's build it right from the start.
If you're serious about transforming education, you don't start with high school reform. You don't start with middle school curriculum. You start with a 2-year-old and build the foundation right.
December 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM
If you're serious about transforming education, you don't start with high school reform. You don't start with middle school curriculum. You start with a 2-year-old and build the foundation right.
80% of brain development happens by age 3. We spend billions on K-12 interventions and pennies on quality early childhood. Then wonder why nothing changes.
December 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
80% of brain development happens by age 3. We spend billions on K-12 interventions and pennies on quality early childhood. Then wonder why nothing changes.
✨New: We fight about reading curriculum in 3rd grade. But the real problems started in the first 5 years. Here's why we're fighting the wrong battles. 🧵👇
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December 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
✨New: We fight about reading curriculum in 3rd grade. But the real problems started in the first 5 years. Here's why we're fighting the wrong battles. 🧵👇
open.substack.com/pub/theparen...
open.substack.com/pub/theparen...
Sunday: Why everything we fight about in K-12 education traces back to what happens (or doesn't happen) in the first 5 years.
December 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Sunday: Why everything we fight about in K-12 education traces back to what happens (or doesn't happen) in the first 5 years.
Baltimore didn’t wait for the state to act. It followed the reading science in 2018 and now ranks #2 in reading growth among big‑city districts nationwide. Proof that instruction, not slogans, moves scores. 👇
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theparentingrevolution.substack.com/p/balanced-l...
Balanced Literacy Stalled—These Cities Didn’t
Atlanta and Baltimore’s reading gains show what happens when districts bet on science‑based instruction instead of slogans
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December 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Baltimore didn’t wait for the state to act. It followed the reading science in 2018 and now ranks #2 in reading growth among big‑city districts nationwide. Proof that instruction, not slogans, moves scores. 👇
theparentingrevolution.substack.com/p/balanced-l...
theparentingrevolution.substack.com/p/balanced-l...
Last post before the holiday. Your child's school will still be broken and the advocacy will still need doing. For now, rest without guilt.
December 24, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Last post before the holiday. Your child's school will still be broken and the advocacy will still need doing. For now, rest without guilt.
If family asks about your advocacy work this week and you don't want to talk about it, you don't have to. 'I'm taking a break from that conversation' is a complete sentence.
December 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
If family asks about your advocacy work this week and you don't want to talk about it, you don't have to. 'I'm taking a break from that conversation' is a complete sentence.
The holidays amplify everything. This week, give yourself permission to step back from advocacy. The fight will be there when you're ready. Rest is part of the work.
December 23, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The holidays amplify everything. This week, give yourself permission to step back from advocacy. The fight will be there when you're ready. Rest is part of the work.
'Teach first, test later' should be obvious. That it feels radical tells you everything about what's broken.
December 22, 2025 at 6:09 PM
'Teach first, test later' should be obvious. That it feels radical tells you everything about what's broken.
If you're new here: I write about education advocacy, reading science, and why so many schools are failing kids. I don't do polite. I do honest.
December 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
If you're new here: I write about education advocacy, reading science, and why so many schools are failing kids. I don't do polite. I do honest.
The school system counts on you getting too exhausted to keep fighting. Rest isn't giving up. It's preparing for the next round.
December 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM
The school system counts on you getting too exhausted to keep fighting. Rest isn't giving up. It's preparing for the next round.
New: You can't fight for your child if you're running on empty. A guide to sustaining yourself when the system is fighting back.
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You Can't Fight for Your Child If You're Running on Empty
A Parent Advocate's Guide to Sustainable Self-Care
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December 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
New: You can't fight for your child if you're running on empty. A guide to sustaining yourself when the system is fighting back.
open.substack.com/pub/theparen...
open.substack.com/pub/theparen...
Tomorrow: Parent self-care when you're advocating for your child. How to sustain yourself when the fight feels endless.
December 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Tomorrow: Parent self-care when you're advocating for your child. How to sustain yourself when the fight feels endless.
Fighting your child's school is exhausting. Sunday morning I'm writing about how to sustain yourself when the system is fighting back.
December 20, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Fighting your child's school is exhausting. Sunday morning I'm writing about how to sustain yourself when the system is fighting back.
This week: Showed how to tell if it's dyslexia or teaching failure and gave you the 5 questions to ask before evaluation. Sunday: Taking care of yourself while fighting for your child.
December 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
This week: Showed how to tell if it's dyslexia or teaching failure and gave you the 5 questions to ask before evaluation. Sunday: Taking care of yourself while fighting for your child.
True dyslexia requires specialized intervention. But it also responds to systematic phonics—just more slowly and with more repetition. If your child is 'cured' quickly, it wasn't dyslexia.
December 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
True dyslexia requires specialized intervention. But it also responds to systematic phonics—just more slowly and with more repetition. If your child is 'cured' quickly, it wasn't dyslexia.
The reading intervention that works for 80% of struggling readers: systematic, explicit phonics instruction. Most schools skip this step and go straight to special ed evaluation.
December 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The reading intervention that works for 80% of struggling readers: systematic, explicit phonics instruction. Most schools skip this step and go straight to special ed evaluation.
If the school can't show you documentation that your child received 100+ hours of systematic phonics instruction, they haven't ruled out teaching failure before diagnosing disability.
December 17, 2025 at 5:56 PM
If the school can't show you documentation that your child received 100+ hours of systematic phonics instruction, they haven't ruled out teaching failure before diagnosing disability.
New today: the five questions every parent should ask before signing a dyslexia consent form—questions that show whether it’s a true disability or broken instruction.
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Before You Consent to That Dyslexia Evaluation
The Five Questions That Reveal If Your Child Can't Read—Or Was Never Taught
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December 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
New today: the five questions every parent should ask before signing a dyslexia consent form—questions that show whether it’s a true disability or broken instruction.
open.substack.com/pub/theparen...
open.substack.com/pub/theparen...
Tomorrow: The questions every parent should ask before consenting to a dyslexia evaluation. The ones that reveal whether it’s a true disability—or a teaching failure.
#ParentAdvocacy #Dyslexia #SpecialEducation #IEP #ParentRights
#ParentAdvocacy #Dyslexia #SpecialEducation #IEP #ParentRights
December 17, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Tomorrow: The questions every parent should ask before consenting to a dyslexia evaluation. The ones that reveal whether it’s a true disability—or a teaching failure.
#ParentAdvocacy #Dyslexia #SpecialEducation #IEP #ParentRights
#ParentAdvocacy #Dyslexia #SpecialEducation #IEP #ParentRights