Presented by Sonja Bloetner, Director, Office of Multilingual Achievement, Baltimore County Public Schools (MD), and Co-Founder, CREATE Solutions, LLC; Marybelle Marrero-Colón, Associate Director of Professional Development Relations, Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL); and Dr. Kia Johnson, Senior Director, PreK-12 Professional Development and Evaluations, Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL)
Presented by Aruna Gilbert, Executive Vice President and Chief Program and Policy Officer, Early Learning Coalition of Palm Beach County; Dr. Hee Jin Bang, Vice President, Efficacy Research & Evaluation, Age of Learning; and Dr. Dan Domenech, Former Executive Director, AASA, The School Superintendents Association
The Science of Reading has become widely accepted in education, so what does it look like in practice? In the edLeader Panel “The Science of Reading in Real Life: Real Strategies for Real Classrooms,” Sarah Von Heal, Literacy Marketing Manager at Savvas Learning Company, discussed the practical applications of the Science of Reading with experts Dr. Sharon Vaughn, Professor and Executive Director of the Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk at the University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Pamela Mason, Director of the Jeanne Chall Reading Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Dr. Young-Suk Kim, Professor at the School of Education at University of California, Irvine.
Far too many students struggle with reading, with scores dropping in both fourth and eighth grades, and one-third of eighth graders not reading at basic levels. Schools must implement early literacy development quickly if they’re to get ahead of the ongoing literacy crisis.
Presented by Dyane Smokorowski, Coordinator of Digital Literacy, Wichita Public Schools (KS)
Presented by Donell Pons, Tutor, Advocate, Dyslexia Specialist, Workplace Literacy, Reading Horizons; and Robert Rogers, M.D., President, The Reading League Texas
Presented by Dr. Nancy Akhavan, President and Founder, Nancy Akhavan Consulting, Inc., and Retired Associate Professional Emerita, Fresno State; Lisa Nix, Teacher on Special Assignment in Curriculum, Instruction, and Professional Learning, Fresno Unified School District (CA); and Ariann Cooper, Reading Specialist, Fresno Unified School District (CA)
Presented by Dr. Carolyn Brown, Adjunct Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Iowa, and Co-Founder, Foundations in Learning; and Dr. Carolyn Strom, Former Teacher, Current Clinical Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Literacy, NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education & Human Development
Moderated by Allison Zimmermann, Former Teacher, Current CEO, Foundations in Learning
Presented by Jennifer Bowles, Director of Early Education, Farmington Municipal Schools (NM); and Nicole Lambson, Executive Director of Curriculum and Instruction, Farmington Municipal Schools (NM)
Presented by Rebecca Evers, Former Principal, Cedar Lane Elementary, and Current District EL & Literacy Data, Marysville Joint USD (CA); Christine Lucero, TK–12 Coordinator, Vallejo City USD (CA); and Garla Jalloh, Ed.S., Senior Vice President, Strategic Partnerships and Initiatives, CORE Learning