What’s Inside: In this episode, we chat with Dr. Jennifer May White about her experiences in the literacy field as a teacher, researcher, and coaching facilitator. She discusses things to keep in mind when working with literacy coaches and teachers to support their skill-building in literacy instruction, data-driven instruction, and student-focused improvement.

Dr. White is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Mild to Moderate Teacher Prep Program in the Department of Disability and Psychoeducational Studies at the University of Arizona. She is also a Learning Innovation Consultant with the Stern Center’s Lead to Read Initiative. Lead to Read is a “large-scale, systems change project bringing the science of reading into classrooms to improve literacy outcomes.” Dr. White has worked extensively to improve the practice of coaching as it relates to the classroom and recently developed an online coaching resource to further develop classroom teachers. She published A Comparison of Schools: teacher knowledge of code-based reading instruction actively contributes to in-person and virtual professional development and is deeply invested in building teachers’ capacity in the science of reading.

Resources & Links:

• Jim Knight: The Impact Cycle

• The Stern Center

• Article: Preservice educators’ and noneducators’ knowledge and perceptions of responsibility about dyslexia

This podcast episode was sponsored by Heggerty Phonemic Awareness.