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The “Simple” View of Reading Belies its Complexity
by Laurel Dickey There's a heated debate underway in education circles about the best way to teach reading and I'm sorry to say that most of the chatter misses the point. I've been teaching our [...]
7 Takeaways from Gay Su Pinnell’s Learning to Make a Difference: A Lifetime Journey
By Dr. Billy Molasso Over 1800 literacy professionals came together with a common goal at LitCon 2022 — to strengthen their knowledge and expertise to help struggling readers. Your passion for childhood literacy was evident [...]
Where have all the readers gone?
By Braedan Schantz Aida sat down beside her Reading Recovery teacher talking at an auctioneer’s pace. Her dad brought home a new kitten last night, and now she has three of them. “That’s just [...]
Our School Ambassador
by Kimberly Reynolds I never quite understood the magnitude of the saying, “seeing something through the eyes of a child” until the last couple of months of school last year. That is when I had [...]
New Research Affirms Positive Impact of Reading Recovery During COVID
By Dr. Billy Molasso, Executive Director of RRCNA The news is in and it’s good for Reading Recovery’s teacher-led tutoring program for struggling first graders. Our annual research from the International Data Evaluation Center [...]
What is your song?
by Kim Reynolds Have you ever heard a song from the past that brings you right back to that very moment in time as if nothing has ever changed? I used to laugh at my [...]
High-Quality Tutoring Strategies to Facilitate Acceleration, Not Remediation
The latest in a webinar series hosted by the AASA, The School Superintendents Association and Learning Policy Institute features effective, high-quality tutoring strategies to accelerate, not remediate student gains during this COVID-19 school year and [...]
Reading Between the Brushstrokes: Cultivating Critical Thinkers Through Curious Conversations About Art
by Nawal Qarooni Casiano CONVERSATION AND CURIOSITY I hopped into the Zoom room from a stool in my bedroom, poised with a pen and ready to take notes. A teacher I work alongside had [...]
Just Choosing Diverse Books is Not Enough: Let’s Make Curriculum Connections
by Dr. Towanda Harris I have the great honor of being an adjunct professor for early childhood undergraduate students at a Historically Black Colleges and University (HBCU) in Georgia. For those who don’t know, [...]
Learning Loss-Myth or Reality (Check)
by Kathleen A. Brown Learning Loss: one of the many topics of conversation in the education world of the pandemic. As school districts across the nation are working tirelessly to open schools, many are [...]
