Episode 320 | Patty McGee | Author-Educator-Consultant | The EdisonOS Podcast

In this episode, Patty McGee, literacy consultant, educator, and author, describes herself as a "traveling teacher" who spends time in schools helping teachers and students rather than staying distant from the classroom. Drawing from her own early struggles with poor literacy instruction, Patty explains why strong literacy teaching must center student choice, student voice, and goal-centered responsive instruction.She challenges the growing overreliance on phonics in the wake of the science of reading movement, warns against the assign and assess culture in writing instruction, and shares why she sees AI as a tool to amplify human voice rather than replace it. She also offers a simple yet powerful shift for teachers: to look at student writing with the same admiring eye we bring to student art.