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What is right is not always popular
There has been quite a lot to unpack over the past couple of weeks, and the misinformation is running rampant! If the lies weren’t being spotlighted so publicly, we’d simply go on about our
RRCNA Membership Spotlight: Jonelle Hickerson
Learn about your colleagues from across the country who do whatever it takes as part of the Reading Recovery Community! Jonelle received a professional development award to attend LitCon this year, thanks to generous
The Four Fallacies of the Media’s Representation of Literacy
The following is a publication from a group of Concerned Educators in Massachusetts 2024, urging state legislators to resist a one-size-fits-all approach to literacy instruction. “If not done well,” they share, “policy decisions related
Teacher Leader Institute Keynote Speaker Announcement
We are excited to announce the Teacher Leader Institute Keynote Speakers Alice Yee and Allison Briceño! Explore your role as a literacy educator in diversity, equity, and inclusion at Palm Springs. With
RRCNA Membership Spotlight: Dannyelle Lowpensky
Learn about your colleagues from across the country who do whatever it takes as part of the Reading Recovery Community! Dannyelle received a professional development award to attend LitCon this year, thanks to generous
Advocacy Alert: Senator Cassidy’s ‘Literacy Report’ is More Fiction Than Fact
Another day, another dubious report making headlines. This time, it's U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) stirring the pot with some suspiciously biased findings on literacy rates among American students. Too bad his report is
RRCNA Membership Spotlight: Megan Dodd
Learn about your colleagues from across the country who do whatever it takes as part of the Reading Recovery Community! Megan received a professional development award to attend LitCon this year, thanks to generous
Follow My Journey: Under Pressure
Cambridge University defines the word pressure, in its simplest of terms, as the force you produce when you press on something. Of course, Cambridge provides several other uses for the word, and some are more appropriate
LitCon 2024 Recap: Inspiration and Rejuvenation
Another year, another successful LitCon! Reading teachers, interventionists, Reading Recovery professionals, and district leaders gathered for a spring weekend in Columbus, Ohio, January 27 -31. After the first in-person Litcon last year since 2020,
Ohio releases its Approved Curriculum List, and the Deja vu is real
Just in time for Groundhog Day, history is repeating itself. But for those of you playing along and to refresh education's collective long-term memory loss, let's recap: Established as part of the No Child
THE JOURNAL OF READING RECOVERY
Spring 2024
Constructing a More Complex Neural Network for Working on Written Language That Learns to Extend Itself by Carol A. Lyons
Reading Recovery IS the Science(s) of Reading and the Art of Teaching by Debra Semm Rich
Predictions of Progress: Charting, Adjusting, and Shaping Individual Lessons by Janice Van Dyke and Melissa Wilde
Teachers Designing for Context: Using Integrity Principles to Design Early Literacy Support in Aotearoa New Zealand by Rebecca Jesson, Judy Aitken, and Yu Liu