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LitCon Keynote Speakers
LitCon is next week, but there’s still time to register and see these can’t-miss keynote speakers. Register today to connect with colleagues, learn from the best, and return to your schools inspired by speakers [...]
New Featured Session Added: Niigaan Sinclair
With LitCon only a few weeks away, you won't want to miss the newly added session Not a Branch but the Tree: Indigenous Literacies and the North American Canon. Check out the other featured [...]
RRCNA Blog: A Year in Review
From sharing exciting updates to spotlighting our members, the RRCNA blog is your resource for what's new in the Reading Recovery Community. In 2023, we advocated that Reading Recovery works and explored how to [...]
Book Choice Matters Part Two: Text Variety and Lifelong Readers
In the first part of this blog, we examined the importance of using data when selecting books for an individual child and the critical role of motivation and engagement. In this installment, we will [...]
Book Choice Matters Part One: Data, Motivation, and Engagement
Every day in a Reading Recovery lesson, we have the opportunity to introduce a new book to the child sitting beside us. In Literacy Lesson Designed for Individuals (LLDI), Clay advised us to select [...]
Lessons from Churchill
Winston Churchill once said, "Success is not final, failure is not fatal; It is the courage to continue that counts.” Reflecting on the last few months of teacher leader training, I know I've struggled, [...]
Connected Text and Word Solving
By Michele Dufresne Recent discussions about phonics have underscored its critical role in literacy education. While the significance of teaching phonics is widely acknowledged, it is imperative to recognize that phonics is a means [...]
Giving Tuesday with the Foundation for Struggling Readers
On this Giving Tuesday, the RRCNA community is celebrating our Professional Development Award winners. A key tenet of Reading Recovery is a commitment to continuous professional development; these awards funded by friends, partners, and [...]
Spotlight Speaker: Allison Briceño
Don't miss this presentation on Sunday, January 28 and Monday, January 29! Join Dr. Allison Briceño for Creating Conscious Classrooms: Using Diverse Books for Anti-Racist Teaching. Dr. Allison Briceño is an Associate Professor in [...]
Spotlight Speaker: George Hruby
Don't miss this presentation on Sunday, January 28 and Monday, January 29! Join George Hruby (Ph.D. Reading Education), former Executive Director of the University of Kentucky’s Collaborative Center for Literacy Development, for Dyslexia’s Discontents: [...]









