The Road to Reading Podcast

In this episode, Christine and Keegan, two high school students from New Trier, share their journeys with dyslexia. They share their struggles and their successes and how they've learned to advocate for themselves. Christine and Keegan have created an organization called, Discover Dyslexia, where they intend to show other kids like themselves that through hard work and perseverance any child...

In this episode, we hear from award winning journalist, Emily Hanford. She shares her long standing investigative career in education with us, what drove her to shed light on the education crisis happening in our nation, her hopes for how school districts can make lasting change, & words of encouragement because this work is complicated and needs a united effort. Show Notes & Other episode...

In this episode, we hear from Dr. Stephanie Stollar. Dr. Stollar will share different types of literacy assessments, how they can be used to dig deeper into our data, how we can use our data to shift our systems that support students, some possible recommendations for a walk to read model, and how to support our older struggling students, as well as what types of assessments we may not need in the...