Advocate to Prioritize Education
Advocacy is organized activism in support of an idea or cause. As an advocate for Reading Recovery, you can help ensure that this proven reading and writing intervention remains available to the children who need it.
Advocacy consists of constituents contacting their elected officials about issues that are important to them and establishing relationships with these legislators. These relationships are then leveraged to influence public policy decisions. By establishing relationships and champions, you encourage public officials to make a commitment to you and to Reading Recovery.
People often ask how advocacy is different from lobbying. Lobbying is an effort to influence the thinking of legislators or other public officials for or against a specific cause or a specific piece of proposed legislation. Advocacy is the promotion of a cause, idea, or policy. In other words, your active support of Reading Recovery is considered advocacy.
The most-effective advocates believe in what they are advocating. Reading Recovery professionals who share their passion for Reading Recovery with legislators and policymakers can influence decisions to make a difference in the literacy lives of children.
Here are some resources that may assist you as you consider your role in advocating for Reading Recovery.
THE JOURNAL OF READING RECOVERY
Spring 2023
The Science of Reading Era: Seeking the “Science” in Yet Another Anti-Teacher Movement by Paul Thomas
Understanding Marie Clay’s Perspective on Phonics by Mary Anne Doyle
Selection of Children for Reading Recovery: Challenges and Responses by Mary K. Lose and Eva Konstantellou
Let’s Talk About It: The Composing Conversation by Jamie Lipp
A Report of National Outcomes for Reading Recovery and Descubriendo la Lectura by Susan Mauck, Kate Nelson and Lisa Pinkerton