by Parents For Reading Justice
Our podcast will feature parents, literacy experts, and thought leaders discussing current topics centered in the Science of Reading and parent advocacy. Our social media centered community is built from the ground up from all political and socioeconomic levels, and is laser focused on bringing evidence-based reading instruction to all our children, acknowledging the fact that scientifically based reading instruction helps every child learn to read. Full video episodes and daily clips can be watched on our YouTube Channel.
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March 31, 2025
<p>We are excited to bring you a new mini-series called "Literacy Now, Together." We've teamed up with FULCRUM’s Kareem Weaver to interview parents, literacy experts, and thought leaders to examine the literacy crisis and highlight the steps people are taking to improve literacy rates across the county. In this episode, we meet Jackie and Lawrence from Niagara Falls, New York, who have two children with IEPs. Although their eight-year-old daughter, who has dyslexia and dysgraphia, showed signs of reading difficulties in kindergarten, these were initially misinterpreted as behavioral issues. The school offered intervention in first grade through the Reading Recovery program, a program broadly criticized for using debunked instructional methods and having poor reading outcomes. The approach proved detrimental, leading to heightened anxiety and emotional distress for their daughter. Despite the parents' requests to stop the program, the school insisted on continuing, which left their daughter in a challenging emotional and psychological state. Jackie and Lawrence describe how their advocacy journey began with their daughter’s struggles but expanded into broader community action. They formed a PTA and built connections with other parents facing similar challenges, creating a support network to push for better literacy instruction. They share their frustration with a school system that blames children and parents for poor performance, despite the district being the lowest-performing in the county. When asked why it is essential for their daughter to learn to read, Jackie and Lawrence give a heart-wrenching answer about the incredibly difficult choices they have to make to support their children's educational needs, forcing them to figure out themselves what the school should have done but failed to do. The couple underscores the far-reaching consequences of inadequate reading instruction, linking it to poverty, limited job opportunities, crime, teen pregnancy, and systemic inequities. Their advice to other parents is practical and empowering: trust your instincts, educate yourself on learning disabilities and dyslexia, and connect with organizations and resources in your community. Their story is a call to action, demonstrating the importance of persistence, self-education, and community advocacy in navigating a flawed educational system.</p><p><br></p><p>Resources:</p><p><a href="https://www.wrightslaw.com/info/child.find.mandate.htm" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Child Find Mandate</a><a href="https://learn.coxcampus.org/courses/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Cox Campus courses</a></p><p><a href="https://files.coxcampus.org/dyslexiaquickfacts.pdf" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Cox Campus- Dyslexia Quick Facts</a></p><p><a href="https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca6/24-5591/24-5591-2025-02-03.html" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">William A vs Clarksville-Montgomery County School System</a></p><p><a href="https://www.understood.org/en/articles/endrew-f-case-decided-supreme-court-rules-on-how-much-benefit-ieps-must-provide" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Endrew F case (Understood.org)</a><a href="https://www.readingrockets.org/literacy-home/reading-101-guide-parents" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Reading Rockets, A Guide for Parents</a></p><p><a href="https://www.dyslexiaallianceforblackchildren.org" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Dyslexia Alliance for Black Children</a></p><p><a href="https://www.opensourcephonics.org" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Open Source Phonics</a></p><p><a href="https://www.therighttoreadfilm.org" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Right to Read film</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ7xa6meD2Q" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Our Dyslexic Children</a><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/531274611676465/?ref=share&mibextid=NSMWBT" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">WNY Literacy Initiative</a></p><p><a href="https://niagaracommunityinfo.org" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Niagara Community Information Group</a></p><p><br></p><p>_____________________</p><p><br></p><p>Parents For Reading Justice is a nonprofit grassroots movement dedicated to ensuring every child learns to read by engaging parents and educators in adopting the science of teaching reading. </p><p><br></p><p>About Brett Tingley: <a href="https://parentsforreadingjustice.org/brett-tingley-bio" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://parentsforreadingjustice.org/brett-tingley-bio</a></p><p><br></p><p>About Kareem Weaver: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/KareemWeaverBio" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://tinyurl.com/KareemWeaverBio</a></p><p><br></p><p>About Parents for Reading Justice: <a href="https://linktr.ee/parentsforreadingjustice" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://linktr.ee/parentsforreadingjustice</a></p><p><br></p><p>About FULCRUM:<a href="https://linktr.ee/fulcrumliteracy " target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://linktr.ee/fulcrumliteracy </a></p><p><br></p><p>Join us on our socials, watch our documentary, take our Masterclass, register your parent group, pay it forward, and DONATE!</p><p><br></p><p>DISCLAIMER: All information in this video is presented as our shared experience only, with the intention of helping others to understand our efforts and experience. Nothing presented herein should be construed as offering legal advice. We encourage everyone to seek professional legal advice pertaining to their individual circumstances. We welcome you to share your experiences with us on all matters relating to dyslexia as we are continuously learning new information to help push our cause to help as many people with dyslexia as possible. Thank you for your continued support!</p>
February 14, 2025
<p>For our 18th episode, and 2nd international episode!, we are excited to bring you Kim Lockhart. Kim is a French bilingual immersion teacher and special education teacher in Canada. Despite attending a top-tier undergraduate teaching program and earning a master's degree, Kim didn't learn anything about how to teach children to read. That didn't come until she went through an Orton-Gillingham training program. Join us for this insightful and engaging conversation where Kim talks frankly about how preservice teacher preparation programs are not setting up teachers for success in the classroom, how the lack of knowledge in evidence-based instruction leaves teachers floundering and too many students failing, and how this model is deeply inequitable.</p><p><br></p><p>In the last part of our conversation, Kim talks about teaching multilingual learners including the importance of building their language skills along with their decoding skills, and how structured literacy is essential in the bilingual classroom. We hope you will come away from this conversation inspired to encourage your school district leadership to talk with the teacher preparation programs they hire from about ending the teaching of disproven methods of reading instruction, and ensuring their graduates learn about literacy science and evidence-based instructional practices. These programs are at the root of the literacy crisis and they need to know that their customers, local school districts, are dissatisfied at having to provide training that should have been provided in college! And if you are a teacher, you can give your feedback directly to your degree program!</p><p><br></p><p>Social Media Handles:</p><p>X: @MmeLockhartLDSB</p><p>Instagram: @mmelockhartlds</p><p>LinkedIn: @Kim Lockhart</p><p>Resources:Our Dyslexic Children Documentary</p><p>The Art and Science of Teaching Primary Reading, by Christopher Such</p><p>Ontario Human Rights Commission Right to Read Report</p><p>The Reading League Science of Reading: Defining Guide</p><p>Literacy How Reading Wheel, Margie Gillis</p><p>_____________________________</p><p>Parents For Reading Justice is a nonprofit grassroots movement dedicated to ensuring every child learns to read by engaging parents and educators in adopting the science of teaching reading. Our mission is to activate, train, and guide parent groups to flip their school districts to evidence-based reading instruction. Our vision is to speed the nationwide shift to evidence-based literacy instruction so that 95% of students read proficiently.</p><p><br></p><p>Host Brett Tingley is the President of OH-KID, a grassroots parent group dedicated to ensuring all children in Ohio learn to read. She is also an advisory board member of the International Dyslexia Association Central Ohio. She is the founder and President of Parents for Reading Justice.Please join us on our socials, watch our documentary, take our Masterclass, register your parent group, pay it forward and DONATE on our website!</p><p><br></p><p>FOLLOW US:</p><p>Our Dyslexic Children - 2020 - Full Film </p><p>Facebook - / parentsforreadingjustice </p><p>Instagram - / parentsforreadingjustice</p><p>Twitter - https://x.com/Parents4RJ</p><p>Masterclass - https://parentsforreadingjustice.org</p><p>Parent Group Directory - https://parentsforreadingjustice.org/...</p><p>Donate - https://parentsforreadingjustice.org/...</p><p><br></p><p>DISCLAIMER: All information in this video is presented as our shared experience only, with the intention of helping others to understand our efforts and experience. Nothing presented herein should be construed as offering legal advice. We encourage everyone to seek professional legal advice pertaining to their individual circumstances. We welcome you to share your experiences with us on all matters relating to dyslexia as we are continuously learning new information to help push our cause to help as many people with dyslexia as possible. Thank you for your continued support!</p>
January 17, 2025
<p>Summary:</p> <p>In this episode of Literacy Now, we talk with Rebecca Tolson. Rebecca is the Director of the Center for Structured Literacy at the University of Akron. Previously, she was the Vice President of Literacy Initiatives at Neuhaus Education Center and an adjunct professor in the master's of dyslexia therapy program at Walsh University. Rebecca started her career as a 5th grade general education teacher, trained in the 'whole language' approach to reading instruction. She saw many students who reached 5th grade unable to read. Much as she loved teaching reading, she quickly found that she didn't have the tools in her toolbox to help her struggling students. It wasn't until a mentor at her school, Lori Josephson, encouraged her to take coursework in the Orton-Gillingham approach to reading instruction, where she learned terminology and instructional approaches that had been absent in her undergraduate degree program, that Rebecca developed the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively teach all children to read.Join us as we hear about working with teachers who have had little to no exposure to reading science, considerations in shifting from a balanced literacy approach to a structured literacy approach, what to look for in a strong MTSS system, and thoughts on what can be done to encourage colleges of education to better prepare our future teachers in reading science and evidence-based instructional practices. Enjoy our conversation- you're in for a treat!</p> <p><br /></p> <p>Resources:</p> <p> <a href="https://effectivereading.org/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">The Center for Effective Reading Instruction</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.imslec.org/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">International Multisensory Structured Language Education Council (IMSLEC)</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.neuhaus.org/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Neuhaus Education Center</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.cde.state.co.us/coloradoliteracy/advisorylistofinstructionalprogramming2020#supplemental" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Colorado DoE: Advisory List of Instructional Programming</a></p> <p><a href="https://dyslexiaida.org/university-programs-accredited-by-ida/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">International Dyslexia Association: Accredited University Programs</a></p> <p><a href="https://dyslexiaida.org/fact-sheets/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">International Dyslexia Association: Fact Sheets</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.nctq.org/review/standard/Early-Reading#findings" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">NCTQ: 2020 Teacher Prep Review</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.msj.edu/academics/graduate-programs/master-of-arts-teacher-advancement-programs/reading-science/index.html?utm_source=USDP&utm_medium=Search&utm_campaign=&utm_term=masters%20in%20reading%20science&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiA-Oi7BhA1EiwA2rIu24FodYWPbeuIwZ5BpefxZdiBlX25vJ1Q3vIg6qpwnEjw1I-oQaQxchoCtJIQAvD_BwE" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Mount St. Joseph University, Reading Science programs</a></p> <p><br /></p> <p>Book: </p> <p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Annual-Growth-Students-Lynn-Fielding/dp/0966687523" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Annual Growth for All Students, Catch Up Growth for Those Who Are Behind</a></p> <p><br /></p> <p>Facebook Socials:</p> <p>Rebecca Tolson</p> <p>@RebeccaTolson</p> <p>Kareem Weaver</p> <p>@KareemJabbarWeaver</p> <p>NCTQ</p> <p>@National CouncilonTeacherQuality</p> <p>University of Akron</p> <p>@TheUniversityofAkron</p> <p>Mount St. Joseph University</p> <p>@MountStJosephUniversity</p> <p>Governor Mike DeWine</p> <p>@MikeDeWine</p> <p>X:</p> <p>@RebeccaTolson1</p> <p>@KJWinEducation</p> <p>@NCTQ@GovMikeDeWine</p> <p> ______________________________</p> <p><br /></p> <p>Please join us on our socials, watch our documentary, take our Masterclass, register your parent group, pay it forward and DONATE on our website!</p> <p><a href="https://m.facebook.com/parentsforreadingjustice" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Facebook</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/parentsforreadingjustice/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram</a></p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/Parents4RJ" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ7xa6meD2Q&t=31s" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Our Dyslexic Children - Documentary</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ-fBQvSJRXU_OptddSZYMg" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">YouTube</a></p> <p><a href="https://parentsforreadingjustice.org/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Masterclass</a></p> <p><a href="https://parentsforreadingjustice.org/parent-group-registry" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Parent Group Directory</a></p> <p><a href="https://columbusfoundation.org/the-giving-store/fund-directory-listing/OurDyslexicChildrenFund/4050" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Donate</a></p> <p><a href="https://parentsforreadingjustice.org/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ParentsForReadingJustice.org</a></p> <p><br /></p> <p>Parents For Reading Justice is a nonprofit grassroots movement dedicated to ensuring every child learns to read by engaging parents and educators in adopting the science of teaching reading. Our mission is to activate, train, and guide parent groups to flip their school districts to evidence-based reading instruction. Our vision is to speed the nationwide shift to evidence-based literacy instruction so that 95% of students read proficiently.Host Brett Tingley is the President of OH-KID, a grassroots parent group dedicated to ensuring all children in Ohio learn to read. She is also an advisory board member of the International Dyslexia Association Central Ohio. She is the founder and President of Parents for Reading Justice.Please join us on our socials, watch our documentary, take our Masterclass, register your parent group, pay it forward and DONATE on our website!</p>
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