Melissa & Lori Love Literacy ® | Science of Reading for Teachers

Kymyona Burk is the Policy Director for Early Education at ExcelinEd, where she supports states pursuing a comprehensive approach to K-3 reading policy through successful policy implementation. She gives context as to what led her to this position - her previous experiences as State Literacy Director for Mississippi and the Executive Director of Teaching & Learning with Jackson Public Schools - and how these roles and her teaching experiences influenced her current policy work (read about her strategy work in Mississippi for improving reading achievement here). 

Listen in as she shares what she learned along the way,  her method for scaling strategy, and  how policy can influence student success.  

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Wondering how school leaders can support teachers in this work? Jovanni Ramos is a former school leader from NOLA and champion for supporting teachers using HQIM! 

Jovanni set teachers up for success on their Wit & Wisdom ELA implementation journey by setting clear priorities and communicating to all stakeholders. Most importantly, he articulated an expectation of implementation with fidelity while simultaneously providing   direct support as a side-by-side partner in the work. 

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Rachel Arnold is an intervention and special education teacher at Clayton, ES in Colorado. Her journey to HQIM began when she asked herself the question:  How can we use the science of reading research to help us teach ALL kids to read and write?  Listen in as she shares her experience and approach to this work! 

To read more about how Rachel and team made the shift to a content focused curriculum, check out this blog post. 

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UDL is invisible when done well in HQIM! In this episode, Sue Sabella and Vivian Nourse share how HQIM are designed with UDL embedded within.  See below for a quick refresher of the three principles of UDL. If you'd like to read more, visit CAST UDL Guidelines. 

1. Engagement: Why am I learning this? Learners differ in the ways they can be engaged or motivated to learn. 
2. Representation: What am I learning? Are students able to access the learning?
3. Action & Expression: How will students share learning? How do students navigate the learning environment? How do they show what they know? 

And... If you'd like to learn  what it feels like for kids with a variety of needs, this tool simulates  learning and thinking differences. 

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Educator Shanita Rapatalo shares how "literacy, liberation, and opportunity go hand in hand" both on the podcast and in her recent blog post located here.  She discusses the mindset shifts needed to make the change to evidence-based practices, what changed once these practices were implemented, and why it's an equity issue. 

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Meet Daisy Salazar-Garza, an incredibly thoughtful school leader at KIPP SOCAL, who shares her anti-bias and anti-racist approach to implementing Wit & Wisdom ELA. 

• How is Wit & Wisdom aligned to KIPP's anti-bias & anti-racist approach?  
• What aspects of curriculum  could have missing pieces of marginalized perspectives? How do we address these in teacher planning? 

Daisy shares that it's difficult to locate a rigorous curriculum that affirms students' identities…  but there are ways to have both. It’s not either or … it’s AND. 

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Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati, Ohio considers science of reading research the backbone of their programming at all levels: undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral. On today's episode, we talk with Amy Murdoch, Reading Science Program Director at MSJ.

Amy shares specifics about the courses and programs, details about student teaching experiences with students who are well-versed in the science of reading, thoughts on how we can begin to shift the mindset of higher ed and state agencies.

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What goes on behind the scenes at EdReports.org? Tricia Parker and Jess Box share the gateways that EdReports uses to reviews curricula: standards alignment, quality, and usability. We ask the questions we all really want to know: 

• Who are the curriculum reviewers? 
• How do reviewers ensure standards alignment? 
• What does it really mean for curricula to meet grade level standards? 
• What does 'all green' really mean? 
• How do complex texts, tasks, TDQs build over time to shape knowledge and coherence?

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Dr. Errick L. Greene, Superintendent of Jackson Public Schools, shares the district's transformation journey and how he level sets on what excellence looks like: 

1. HQIM
2. Seeing is believing
3. Professional learning opportunities (frequent, ongoing)
4. Inquiry

Most importantly, he asks and answers crucial questions, such as:

• Why HQIM? 
• Where are resources best utilized?
• How do we serve children in the way they need to be served and leave space for professionals to be professionals?  
• How do we systematize equity?

Listen in to hear about Jackson's journey to HQIM!

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Looking for more literacy support and resources? Explore all of our podcast episodes, free listening guides, and classroom tools at literacypodcast.com.

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Laura Stewart from The Reading League discusses evidence-aligned instruction to support universal understanding around the science of reading. She discusses how practice CAN transform belief to help our students live a literate life. 

Sharing another fabulous literacy podcast - Teaching, Reading, and Learning with Laura Stewart. 

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