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The Misrepresentation of Marie Clay in “Sold a Story”
by Thomas Newkirk This blog post is extracted from the full-length essay, "The Broken Logic of 'Sold a Story'": A Personal Response to "The Science of Reading." Read the full essay available in the [...]
Good News of the Week: Teacher Training Graduates
Congratulations to the newest New Jersey Reading Recovery and Literacy Lessons teachers! These professionals worked so hard this year and were changed as educators. Their dedication to their students was unmatched. These teachers learned [...]
Follow My Journey: Learning to Lead
John Maxwell says that a leader is “one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.” As a Reading Recovery Teacher Leader in training, I have learned so many new things [...]
Digging into Data with IDEC
By Kate Nelson, International Data Evaluation Center, and Mary Ann McBride, Teacher Leader Data is critical to making informed instructional decisions that serve the needs of our most struggling readers, and IDEC data offers [...]
What is right is not always popular
There has been quite a lot to unpack over the past couple of weeks, and the misinformation is running rampant! If the lies weren’t being spotlighted so publicly, we’d simply go on about our [...]
RRCNA Membership Spotlight: Jonelle Hickerson
Learn about your colleagues from across the country who do whatever it takes as part of the Reading Recovery Community! Jonelle received a professional development award to attend LitCon this year, thanks to generous [...]
The Four Fallacies of the Media’s Representation of Literacy
The following is a publication from a group of Concerned Educators in Massachusetts 2024, urging state legislators to resist a one-size-fits-all approach to literacy instruction. “If not done well,” they share, “policy decisions related [...]
Teacher Leader Institute Keynote Speaker Announcement
We are excited to announce the Teacher Leader Institute Keynote Speakers Alice Yee and Allison Briceño! Explore your role as a literacy educator in diversity, equity, and inclusion at Palm Springs. With [...]
RRCNA Membership Spotlight: Dannyelle Lowpensky
Learn about your colleagues from across the country who do whatever it takes as part of the Reading Recovery Community! Dannyelle received a professional development award to attend LitCon this year, thanks to generous [...]
Advocacy Alert: Senator Cassidy’s ‘Literacy Report’ is More Fiction Than Fact
Another day and another dubious report is making headlines. This time, it's U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) stirring the pot with some suspiciously biased findings on literacy rates among American students. Too bad his [...]
