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When Awareness Becomes Action: Changing Outcomes for Students with Dyslexia
Thursday, October 8, 2026 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
When Awareness Becomes Action: Changing Outcomes for Students with Dyslexia
Presented by Clarice L. Jackson, Literacy Advocate, Dyslexia Consultant, Supreme Court–Trained Mediator, Trainer, and Certified Orton-Gillingham Classroom Educator
Moderated by Cherie Pye, Manager, Product Marketing, Voyager Sopris Learning
Sponsored by Voyager Sopris Learning
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Voyager Sopris Learning’s Dyslexia Awareness Week concludes with an inspiring and action-focused edWebinar led by Clarice L. Jackson, nationally recognized literacy and dyslexia advocate, educator, consultant, author, and longtime champion for struggling readers and their families.
For nearly three decades, Clarice has worked alongside students, families, educators, policymakers, and communities around one central question: Once we know a child is struggling to read, what are we going to do about it?
Building on the foundational knowledge shared throughout Dyslexia Awareness Week, Clarice challenges educators to move beyond awareness and into action. Understanding dyslexia matters, but awareness alone does not change a child’s reading trajectory. What changes outcomes is what happens next: early identification, evidence-aligned instruction, effective intervention across all tiers of support, progress monitoring, knowledgeable educators, engaged families, and systems prepared to respond when students struggle.
Drawing from her work as Founder and Executive Director of the Voice Advocacy Center, Founder and President of Decoding Dyslexia Nebraska, President of The Reading League Nebraska, and Convener and Host of the Black Literacy Matters® National Conference, Clarice explores how instruction, intervention, policy, and family-school partnerships intersect to shape outcomes for students with dyslexia.
Clarice also draws from her published Reconstruction Literacy Paradox framework and her scholarship, Literacy as Exodus: The Reconstruction Literacy Paradox and the Collapse of Educational Will, published in The Midwest Quarterly. Her work raises an important question for education today: If we know more about how children learn to read than ever before, do we have the educational will to ensure that every child receives the instruction and intervention they need?
Through powerful experiences from students and families, Clarice demonstrates what can happen when struggling readers are seen, families are heard, and educators have the knowledge and tools to act. Her message is simple and urgent: Awareness is the beginning. Action is what changes lives. When what we know becomes what we do, we can change not only how a child reads, but the trajectory of that child’s education and future.
What To Learn:
- How to move from dyslexia awareness to meaningful action in classrooms and schools
- Why effective intervention across all tiers of support matters for students with dyslexia
- How early identification, evidence-aligned instruction, intervention, and progress monitoring work together
- How educators and families can become effective partners in supporting student success
- How systems and policies shape access to identification, instruction, and intervention
- Which instructional practices make the greatest difference for struggling readers
- Why timely, evidence-based intervention can change a student’s educational trajectory
- How educators can turn what they know about dyslexia into what they do for students
This recorded edWebinar will be of interest to PreK-12 teachers, literacy coaches, intervention specialists, school leaders, and district leaders.
This edWebinar is part of Dyslexia Awareness Week: Understanding Dyslexia, Empowering Educators, Transforming Outcomes.
About the Presenter
Clarice L. Jackson is a nationally recognized literacy and dyslexia advocate, consultant, trainer, author, edupreneur, Nebraska Supreme Court-trained mediator, and certified Orton-Gillingham Classroom Educator with nearly three decades of experience advocating for struggling readers, students with dyslexia, and families navigating special education. She is the Founder and Executive Director of the Voice Advocacy Center, established in 2012 as Nebraska’s first dyslexia-specific tutoring and advocacy center; Founder and President of Decoding Dyslexia Nebraska; President of The Reading League Nebraska; and Convener and Host of the Black Literacy Matters® National Conference.
Clarice is the creator of The Reconstruction Literacy Paradox and author of Literacy as Exodus: The Reconstruction Literacy Paradox and the Collapse of Educational Will, published in the spring 2026 issue of The Midwest Quarterly. Her work examines what the extraordinary pursuit of Black literacy following Emancipation and during Reconstruction can teach us about educational will, community responsibility, and our collective obligation to ensure children learn to read. Her work spans direct service, advocacy, and state and national literacy policy. Clarice serves on the Nebraska Department of Education Literacy Advisory Panel, the Omaha Public Library Board of Trustees, and the Nebraska Commission on African American Affairs. In 2025, she served on the International Dyslexia Association Dyslexia Definition Steering Committee, contributing to the development of the revised definition of dyslexia.
In 2014, Clarice authored the NAACP Dyslexia Resolution, helping elevate dyslexia and the needs of struggling readers within the national conversation about literacy and educational opportunity. Her leadership has earned numerous honors, including the 2025 College of Saint Mary Women’s History Month HERstory Award, 2024 Dick Holland Literacy Advocate Award, 2023 Malcolm X Memorial Foundation Community Award, 2019 NAACP Freedom Fighter Service Award, and recognition from the National Coalition of 100 Black Women for her work in education reform. At the heart of Clarice’s work is a simple conviction: Awareness matters, but what we know must become what we do.
About the Moderator
Cherie Pye, Manager, Product Marketing at Voyager Sopris Learning, is committed to helping K–12 educators access solutions that truly support teaching and learning. She brings more than 15 years of experience in edtech and publishing, turning educator feedback into clear, meaningful communication that makes each program’s purpose unmistakably clear for teachers, interventionists, coaches, and administrators. Cherie’s work is grounded in listening deeply to educators, understanding their realities, and advocating for solutions that help them accelerate learning, strengthen instruction, and create more equitable outcomes for students.
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