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Building Literacy Across the Curriculum: Why Every Teacher Is a Reading Teacher
Wednesday, February 25, 2026 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EST
Presented by Susan Lambert, Ed.D., Host of Science of Reading: The Podcast and Chief Academic Officer of Literacy, Amplify; Ana Torres, Host of Beyond My Years and Senior Biliteracy and Multilingual Product Specialist, Amplify; and Eric Cross, Classroom Insider for Beyond My Years, Amplify, and Middle School Science Teacher, Albert Einstein Academies, International Baccalaureate Schools (CA)
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Reframe how you think about reading in your classroom. In this edWebinar, join three powerhouse educators (who are also the voices behind the award-winning podcasts Science of Reading: The Podcast and Beyond My Years) for a conversation that revolutionizes your teaching approach, no matter what subject you teach.
Dr. Susan Lambert, host of Science of Reading: The Podcast, Ana Torres, host of the Beyond My Years podcast, and Eric Cross, Beyond My Years’ Classroom Insider, come together for an inspiring discussion that expands your understanding of how literacy fits into every subject area. These passionate educators share why this is such an important topic and what it looks like in practice.
Viewers:
- Discover strategies to weave literacy seamlessly into your classroom
- Learn approaches and tactics for supporting multilingual learners
- Get strategies for developing academic language across all subjects
- Explore what literacy instruction looks like in an adolescent classroom
This recorded edWebinar is of interest to PreK–8 teachers, school leaders, and district leaders.
About the Presenters
Susan Lambert, Ed.D., is the Chief Academic Officer of Literacy at Amplify and host of Science of Reading: The Podcast. Her career has been focused on creating high-quality learning environments using evidence-based practices. As podcast host, Dr. Lambert explores the increasing body of scientific research around how reading is taught. As a former classroom teacher, administrator, and curriculum developer, Dr. Lambert is dedicated to turning theory into best practices that educators can put right to use in the classroom and to showcasing national models of reading instruction excellence. She is a mom of four, a grandma of four, a world traveler, and a collector of stories.
Ana Torres is the Senior Biliteracy and Multilingual Product Specialist at Amplify and host of the Beyond My Years podcast. She has been an educator for 30 years, serving both the K–8 and higher education sectors. She has served as an administrator and instructor at various public and private colleges and universities, as well as a bilingual and dual language teacher, dual language math and reading interventionist, dual language instructional coach, and an assistant principal and principal. In her current role, she delivers literacy and biliteracy presentations across the nation. Her passion and advocacy for biliteracy have led her to educate leaders, teachers, and parents about the positive impact of bilingualism and biliteracy in our world.
Eric Cross is a full-time middle school science teacher for Albert Einstein Academies, International Baccalaureate Schools. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of San Diego in the School of Leadership and Education Sciences, a Google Certified Innovator, an Exploratorium teacher leader, host of the Amplify podcast Science Connections, and Classroom Insider for the Amplify podcast Beyond My Years.
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Amplify is the original Science of Reading company—we have been doing it for decades! We are pleased to offer a complete and tightly integrated literacy system built on 20+ years of research that ensures you can bring true Science of Reading practices to every point of your instructional journey, and we now offer the only complete biliteracy suite.
