Introducing: Talk to Teachers

Yesterday, I shared some reflections on the application process for our fellowship program. I reflected that the purpose of our fellowship program is to celebrate, uplift, and honor teachers who are doing exceptional work. We want to learn from these teachers. We want to help other teachers replicate what they’re doing.

And that’s also the purpose of our next project: Talk to Teachers. 

TL;DR: If you’re a teacher and want to talk to us about your experience teaching and learning about reading, get in touch here. 

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For the rest of the year, we will regularly share interviews with exceptional reading teachers from around the world. We want to hear directly from teachers about their experience teaching reading. We want to hear from them about their practice, about their education, about their evolution, about the questions they have for researchers, about any hang-ups they might have about “the science of reading.”  

That’s the project: listening to and talking to teachers and highlighting, celebrating, and sharing their voices. 

In the next week, we’ll share an interview with an instructional coach at an international school in Brazil, who became interested in evidence-based literacy instruction after she was required to help her teachers adopt Units of Study. On deck, we have an interview with an administrator from a large charter network, who learned about “the science of reading” by accident and has some questions.  From time to time, I’ll also share insights and my reflections about these conversations, but I also think they’ll mostly speak for themselves. 

And most importantly, if you’re a reading teacher and want to be interviewed, please get in touch here.