Teaching, Reading, and Learning: The Reading League Podcast

Interview w/ Jan Hasbrouck


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Dr. Jan Hasbrouck is a researcher, educational consultant, and author. She served as Executive Consultant to the Washington State Reading Initiative and as an advisor to the Texas Reading Initiative. Dr. Hasbrouck was a reading specialist and literacy coach for 15 years before teaching at the University of Oregon and later becoming a professor at Texas A&M University. Dr. Hasbrouck has provided educational consulting to individual schools across the United States as well as in Mexico, Peru, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, and Germany, helping teachers, specialists, and administrators design and implement effective assessment and instructional programs targeted to help low-performing readers.


Dr. Hasbrouck earned her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Oregon, and completed her Ph.D. at Texas A&M. Her research in areas of reading fluency, reading assessment, instructional coaching, and English Learners has been published in numerous professional books and journals. She is the author and coauthor of several books including “Conquering Dyslexia”, “Reading Fluency”, “Student-Focused Coaching” and “Educators as Physicians”, along with several assessment tools. In 2019 she helped found Read Washington, a 501(c3) nonprofit organization with the mission to “provide professional development opportunities, based on the science of reading, so every student becomes a skilled and confident reader.” She also enjoys volunteering at her grandson’s K-8 school in Seattle.


Further Resources by Jan Hasbrouck

  • Conquering Dyslexia:  A Guide to  Early Detection and Intervention for Teachers and Families
  • Reading Fluency: Understand, Assess, Teach  
  • Student-Focused Coaching; The Instructional Coach's Guide to Supporting Student Success through Teacher Collaboration
  • Hasbrouck-Tindal 2017 ORF Norms 

Other Resources Mentioned:

  • Explicit Instruction by Anita Archer
  • “Ladder of Reading” by Nancy Young 
  • Siegfried “Zig” Engleman   
  • The ABCs of CBM by Hosp, Hosp, and Howell 
  • The Right to Read Project  
  • The Reading League’s Defining Movement  
  • Read WA

Jan’s Picks

  • Quote: “If the student hasn’t learned, the teacher hasn’t taught.”  Zig Engleman
  • Little House on the Prairie Book Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • The Social Animal by Elliot Aronson
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