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Happy National Principals Month
The Reading Recovery Council of North America is celebrating our literacy leaders in National Principals Month. The entire school community must be invested to provide one of the most [...]
Spotlight Speaker: Diane Sweeney
Calling all literacy leaders! Join us for Foundations for Student-Centered Coaching on Saturday, January 27. Register separately for this full-day preconference workshop specially designed for instructional leaders. Lunch is included. Student-Centered Coaching is an [...]
Spotlight Speaker: Keynote Peter Johnston
Mark your calendars for Monday, January 29! You won't want to miss Unshrinking Literacy, Teaching and Learning with Peter Johnston. The currently popular literacy narrative is that intensive, structured phonics programs backed by “The [...]
Follow My Journey: Just Keep Swimming
Join us this year in a five-part series while we follow the journey of Heather Cherry as she trains to be a Teacher Leader. By Heather Cherry Long before Marie Clay began building her legacy in [...]
Roaming Around the Known While Traveling Around the World: A New Perspective on Concepts About Print
“It’s all Greek to me!” This expression usually means something is hard to read or understand. I shared that sentiment many times on my travels over the last few months. While traveling to Greece [...]
Spotlight Speaker: Keynote Dr. Shuaib Meacham
It all starts on Saturday, January 27, 2024, with Dr. Shuaib Meacham! Kick off a fantastic LitCon with Dr. Meacham's opening keynote address, Literacy, Joy, and Resilience: Hip Hop Literacy, Youth Excellence and the [...]
Phonics is a Piece of the Puzzle, Not the Only Answer
By Cathy Monda After years of lopsided media stories overemphasizing phonics, I was happy to see EdWeek’s article, A Focus on Phonics or Comprehension? What Reading Research Should Look Like in Practice. As a [...]
Everything You Know is Wrong: Reading Edition
Originally published August 23, 2023. Republished with permission by Paul Thomas, author of the blog Radical Scholarship. https://radicalscholarship.com/2023/08/23/everything-you-know-is-wrong-reading-edition/ As a teenager in the 1970s, I was turned on to The Firesign Theater, and in those [...]
RRCNA Membership Spotlight: Leslee Valencia
Learn about your colleagues from across the country who do whatever it takes as part of the Reading Recovery Community! What is your favorite thing about Reading Recovery? If I had to pick one [...]
Data Dives with IDEC: Delving Deeper into Student Growth
By Dr. Kate Nelson and Dr. Susie Mauck In our last post, we explored student growth with Observation Survey (OS) Total Scores for students with an outcome status of Accelerated Progress and Progressed. In [...]









