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This is the SMARTER Literacy Podcast from Ascend SMARTER Intervention. Join us as we simplify the Science of Reading and bring you the tools and strategies to help students of all ages succeed in reading and writing.
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SMARTER Literacy Chat with Mikayla Storey (opens the original)
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In this bonus episode, we sit down with Mikayla Storey-Link, a familiar face to the SMARTER community, to hear about her journey from psychology grad with almost no literacy background to nearly a decade of structured literacy instruction; and now, founder of her own practice, COVA Learning Center. Mikayla talks about what it felt like to learn alongside her students in the beginning, how she thinks about prioritizing skills for older learners who are running out of time, and why having a struct
SMARTER Literacy Chat with Lindsey Buck (opens the original)
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In today's literacy chat, we're flipping the script. You've spent the last several episodes hearing Lindsey interview educators from across the world, and now it's her turn to be in the hot seat. In this literacy chat, Corey sits down with Lindsey to talk about her own journey: from seventh-grade English teacher to reading specialist navigating COVID, to her time at Ascend, to launching Next Chapter Literacy Solutions. Lindsey talks about what it felt like to piece together instruction without a
SMARTER Literacy Chat with Sarah Hornung (opens the original)
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What does it actually look like to lead a district through one of the biggest instructional shifts in recent education history without losing your teachers in the process? In this literacy chat, we sit down with Sarah, Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum Innovation and Pupil Services at Orchard Park Central School District in New York. Sarah shares what it was like to step into her role just as the national conversation around balanced literacy reached a boiling point, how her district built
SMARTER Literacy Chat with Heather Diebel (opens the original)
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Heather Diebel knew she wanted to be a teacher at six years old. What she didn't know was how long it would take to find an approach to literacy instruction that actually felt right, or that the path would lead her away from the classroom entirely. In this literacy chat, we sit down with Heather, owner of Next Level Literacy, to talk about her winding journey from a third grade classroom with no reading curriculum, through a master's degree, through years of piecing programs together, to finally
SMARTER Literacy Chat with Rosemary Del Prado (opens the original)
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What does literacy intervention look like when your students are spread across microschools, homeschool co-ops, and even another continent? In this literacy chat, we sit down with Rosemary, a licensed educator and educational therapist who has built a flexible, thriving practice that serves learners in person, online, and everywhere in between. Rosemary talks about the challenge of finding a program rooted in structured literacy that could actually flex across settings, how she thinks about plac
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