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The Foundation for Struggling Readers Annual Appeal
For the first time in years, the Foundation for Struggling Readers will hold an annual appeal to raise $50,000 to support educators, students, and communities through transformative advocacy, development, and engagement. From now through [...]
Teaching Children, Not Just Teaching Reading: Growing Readers, Growing Reading
Dr. Jennifer Scoggin and Hannah Schneewind This is part II of the blog series Teaching Children, not just Teaching Reading. Read part I of the series here. “When we depend on any single measure to [...]
Teaching Children, Not Just Teaching Reading: How Do We Teach Readers and Reading?
Dr. Jennifer Scoggin and Hannah Schneewind Join us on Thursday for Part II of Teaching Children, not just Teaching Reading: Growing Readers, Growing Reading "The teaching should not start where the teacher is but where [...]
The Power of a Name
By Nancy Rogers-Zegarra A new school year is always an exciting time, and as educators, we look forward to teaching and learning from new students. The silver lining of the pandemic was that we had [...]
What is Beautiful About Roaming?
It's Roaming Week at RRCNA! Check back in on Thursday for the rest of our two-part blog series Roaming: The Power of the Known for the blog The Power of Name: Getting Students Off to [...]
Follow My Journey: Training Begins
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 I was in a classroom [...]
Closing the Gap Between Research and Practice in the Science of Reading
BOULDER, CO (September 13, 2022) – How students learn to read and how reading is best taught are often the focus of media, public, and political criticism. In a new NEPC policy brief, The Science of [...]
A Sarasota County Success Story
Submitted by Lisa Fisher, Reading Recovery Teacher Leader, Sarasota County Schools Watch this powerful video about the Sarasota County Reading Recovery program to hear parents, principals, Reading Recovery Teachers, homeroom teachers, and both current and [...]
RRCNA Membership Spotlight: Amy Bates
We are excited to announce the RRCNA Membership Spotlight, a new feature of the RRCNA Blog! Get to know your colleagues from across the country who do whatever it takes as part of the Reading [...]
The Emperor of Literacy Has No Clothes
By Connie Briggs The Emperor of Literacy has no clothes, and no one is noticing. The latest iteration of so-called literacy reform is the Science of Reading (SOR). Science of Reading advocates ascribe to a [...]
