Why Literacy Reform Keeps Failing and What Actually Works
Why Literacy Reform Keeps Failing & What Actually Works For 40 years, policymakers, educators, and experts have rolled out one reform after another, each designed to address America’s literacy crisis. Each new solution was supposed to be the answer, from “A Nation at Risk” in 1983 to the Science of Reading today. Yet, National Assessment…
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Mandy Melville, founder and director of the nonprofit foundation, Creative Language-based Learning (CLBL), discusses her foundation’s partnership with Jamaica’s schools in providing professional development for teachers since 2017. This episode also features Yvette Richards-Thompson, principal of Denham Town High School in Kingston, Jamaica. In 2021, the school was identified as the worst-performing school in its…
Leaders in Literacy
As a teacher, New Mexico state special education director, and ultimately as the Assistant Secretary for the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) at the US Department of Education, Dr. Bob Parternack has spent his career focused on improving outcomes for students. In these specially curated excerpts from his past Leaders in Literacy…
Series Highlights from Educators Across the Country
If you’ve missed one of our past webinars, here is your chance to see some of the highlights. We’ve curated our favorite portions of the following past webinars, including: This webinar is appropriate for State, District, and School Administrators, Staff Development Coordinators, and Lead Teachers. It covers topics suitable for addressing the needs of various…
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This webinar will highlight the comprehensive approach Maine School Administrative District 75 implemented to respond to the needs of struggling readers following the pandemic, as well as their approach in resolving long-standing issues with reading instruction. Director of Special Education Heidi O’Leary will discuss how Lindamood-Bell provides immediate, targeted, and individualized instruction for the most…
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This presentation examined the strengths and limitations of the Science of Reading, including discussions of the reciprocal relationship of phonemic awareness and phonics, visual memory and orthography, and the cognitive science of learning for decoding and language comprehension, beyond the Simple View of Reading. We were joined by Dr. Andrea Stolar, Director of Special Education…
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In this webinar, Dr. Robert Pasternack, the former Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in the U.S. Department of Education, will discuss his role in developing Response to Intervention as a comprehensive approach for meeting the needs of all students. Dr. Pasternack will share the history of RtI and best practices in preventing…
Leaders in Literacy
Growing Student Performance While Building Teacher Expertise In this webinar hear from a panel of leaders in literacy! Learn how they have successfully implemented intensive literacy and math intervention during summer school with hundreds of students while also providing job-embedded professional development in sensory-cognitive instruction. It is our pleasure to welcome: This presentation is appropriate…
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Spotlight on Special Education – Fulton County Schools Fulton County Schools in Georgia is a large, diverse school district in the Atlanta area. In 2019, the district began to address their ongoing learning gaps in literacy with sensory-cognitive instruction. Our guest speaker will describe Fulton County’s school partnership with Lindamood-Bell for Schools, her experience with…
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Effective Comprehension Instruction Through Standards Best practices in developing comprehension are supported by a sensory-cognitive instructional methodology. As Einstein put it, “If I can’t picture it, I can’t understand it.” Comprehension instruction, in the form of teaching students how to visualize language (concept imagery), is a critical missing piece in standards-based instruction. Concept imagery is…
