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Reading Reform on the Ground: How SoR Policy is Showing Up in Schools (Albert Shanker Institute Blog)

Guest post for the Albert Shanker Institute, sharing a teacher perspective on the successes and challenges of how “Science of Reading” policies are being implemented in public schools.

Opinion: For the Students We Wish We’d Taught Better (The Hechinger Report)

Lead author of open letter signed by over 650 teachers, urging balanced literacy leaders to reckon with research on early reading acquisition.

What Education Researchers Can Learn From Teachers: Asking the Right Questions (EdWeek)

Guest post outlining the need for teacher voice early in the research design process

Leveraging Language: Connecting the Cog Sci and Bilingual Ed literatures in the classroom to support Emergent Bilingual learners (ResearchED 2020)

Conference presentation unpacking synergies between ‘the science of learning’ in general and the research base on supporting multilingual learners.

The Science of Early Learning (Deans for Impact)

Lead author of literacy section for white paper synthesizing major cognitive research findings on early literacy for a general audience.

Teacher Voice: Dual Language Approach Sees Speaking Spanish for What It Is — a Powerful Asset (The 74)

A classroom teacher’s perspective on the power of dual language education as an asset-based approach for multilingual learners.