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Literacy Leadership: Calling All Advocacy Superheroes
All donations in the month of May will go toward RRCNA’s advocacy efforts to keep Reading Recovery available to struggling readers. By Kathleen A. Brown Leadership and advocacy go hand in hand, just like [...]
The Science of Reading Era: Seeking the “Science” in Yet Another Anti-Teacher Movement
All donations in the month of May will go toward RRCNA’s advocacy efforts to keep Reading Recovery available to struggling readers. By Paul L. Thomas Originally published in the Spring 2023 Volume 2 issue [...]
Follow My Journey: Graduation
Join us this year in a five-part series while we follow the journey of Courtney Smith at Clemson University as she trains to be a Teacher Leader. By Courtney Smith Have you ever bought a new [...]
The International Reading Recovery Institute
Join Reading Recovery educators from around the globe to learn and connect at the International Reading Recovery Institute in Indianapolis July 12 -14. With 47 educational sessions and an evening event at the Eiteljorg [...]
Scarborough’s Rope and Reading Recovery Downloadable Resource
Scarborough’s Reading Rope model illustrates the complexity and interconnectedness of skills needed to become a proficient reader. In Reading Recovery, students are engaged in all of these skills while learning to read and write [...]
A Misguided Revolt: A Response to the Recent New York Times Article
By Billy Molasso, PhD From the headline to the spurious points within, the latest teacher hit piece from the New York Times seems determined to oversimplify an extremely complex problem to the unfortunate detriment [...]
The Negative Legislative Consequences of the SOR Media Story: An Open-Access Reader
Originally published April 8, 2023. Republished with permission by Paul Thomas, author of the blog Radical Scholarship. https://radicalscholarship.com/2023/04/08/the-negative-legislative-consequences-of-the-sor-media-story-an-open-access-reader/ Increasingly since around 2013, the media story around the “science of reading” has resulted in legislation [...]
Success Through Ongoing Support: Follow Up and Initiative
In the first blog, we mentioned that we work together as Trainers at the same UTC and both became a bit bionic last year with a new hip (Deb) and new knee (Adria). As [...]
Success Through Ongoing Support: Preparation and Coordination
We work together as Trainers at the same UTC and both became a bit bionic last year with a new hip (Deb) and new knee (Adria). As we prepared for surgery, recovery, and follow [...]









