Science Of Reading Episodes

Our Guest, Anna Young , founder of Sunnyside Literacy Lab , started her career with Teach for America and has worked in education as a humanities teacher, special educator, and academic interventionist. She currently supervises graduate students at CUNY Hunter College . She earned a B.A. in Political Science from McGill University and an M.S. in Adolescent Special Education from CUNY Hunter College. She is certified in the Orton-Gillingham method , a structured literacy approach to reading inst...

Our guest, Naomi Peña , is Director of Community Engagement and co-founder for the Literacy Academy Collective . Naomi shares her experiences as a parent and an advocate to assistant families with children struggling in reading. She explains the origins of the Literacy Academy Collective via a competitive proposal process. Working with families, describes how outreach and emotional support are vital resources for parent engagement. The Goal of the Literacy Academy Collective is to launch a netw...