When districts adopt evidence-based practices like Structured Literacy, it’s often with a surge of excitement and momentum. Yet the real challenge lies not in the initial adoption, but in sustaining ...

The NAEP results in late 2022 revealed that reading scores fell for both fourth and eighth grade readers as a result of the pandemic. Only 33 percent of fourth graders are reading proficiently, which ...

In the world of structured literacy, there are few names that are as recognizable as Barbara Wilson. A renowned literacy expert, Barbara Wilson co-founded Wilson Language Training®, an evidence-backed ...

No one was a greater skeptic than Martin Elementary kindergarten teacher Alissa Szewczak when New Kensington-Arnold administrators announced the district would switch reading curriculums. Two years ...

Educator Amber Moye at City Hall: New Haven “shouldn’t be indebted to a system that doesn’t work.” Amber Moye told city lawmakers she and her fellow teachers got a glimpse of how to change the way ...

Outside, it was summer, but inside John Lewis Elementary School in Macon, Ga. Quantesha Pittman was teaching third graders to build words. "What's that first sound again?" she asked the room of about ...

BRAINERD — A new elementary literacy curriculum is on the docket for the 2026-27 school year in Brainerd. District Literacy Coordinator Melissa Cournia presented the curriculum to the School Board on ...

If it wins the election, the National Party has vowed to shake up how children are taught to read and write. Part of this education overhaul includes a pledge to require the teaching of “structured ...

(The Center Square) – The state’s stalled budget negotiations left many other proposals on hold, including a bipartisan plan to increase childhood literacy. Still, the lawmakers behind the legislation ...

Since the start of this year, all New Zealand schools have been required to use structured literacy to teach reading and writing – including the country’s 310 primary and intermediate Māori-medium ...