The Literacy View

Overteaching or Overreacting? Seidenberg Lights a Match."


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Ep. 155

We had a surprise guest: Mark Seidenberg!🙌🏻

💜 Value & Promise

In this episode, educators are invited into a research conversation that is still unfolding.

You’ll hear Mark Seidenberg discuss his latest article while educators engage in real time with questions, reactions, and pushback.

This episode offers

• A window into how researchers think aloud as ideas are examined, questioned, and clarified

• Space to sit with uncertainty rather than rushing to conclusions

• Insight into the complexity surrounding structured literacy, overteaching, and instructional balance

• A shared starting point for continued inquiry


Our promise for this episode is transparency.

We are actively working through what the research suggests and what it may mean for classrooms. Many listeners are asking for deeper research and greater clarity around implementation, and we hear you. We will be digging further into the evidence and continuing this conversation in future episodes.


If you value thoughtful exploration, intellectual honesty, and research discussed in community, this episode delivers.

No BS.

Just real research, real questions, and a commitment to keep going. 💜🙌🏻

Your thoughts?

“Although the authorities in this field usually acknowledge the obvious point that nondyslexics do not need as much instruction as dyslexics, in practice the adoption of ‘structured literacy’ has led to overteaching.” - Mark Seidenberg

This is us (Faith Borkowsky and Judy Boksner Damski) and The Literacy View-Real Teachers Letting Loose community, in an open, uncensored chat digging into his latest article together.

Article For Discussion: https://www.seidenbergreading.net/blog/oexqqvuvpmotni4qb9f30dvrfbwj05

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🧠 Pushback, questions, and clarifications
🔥 Crowd-driven conversation
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