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Issue 15: Take Charge of Your Child's Education: A Guide to Personalized Learning | by Mary Resenbeck Members Public

Mary Resenbeck shares her personal experiences of dealing with dyslexia and ADHD in her family and emphasizes the need to reconsider traditional teaching methods to unlock the potential of these students by exploring alternative learning approaches.

Mary Resenbeck
Mary Resenbeck
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Issue 13: From Learning Disabled to Enabled | Wendy Crick Members Public

Wendy Crick, a middle school English teacher, shares her quest to find an answer to her daughter's reading struggles. She tried various reading programs as her daughter's confidence kept dipping with each failed attempt at being taught to read before she finally found success with EBLI.

Wendy Crick
Wendy Crick
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Issue 13: Journey to Structured Linguistic Literacy | Erin Sain Members Public

Erin Sain, a dentist by day and reading advocate by night, shares how she discovered the Structured Linguistic Literacy approach in her quest to find an effective and time-efficient instructional method that would help her teach her girls to read.

Erin Sain
Erin Sain
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Issue 13: My Journey Through Literacy Instruction | Amy Manning Members Public

Amy Manning describes her 24-year journey starting with balanced literacy in the early years of her career as a kindergarten teacher to discovering EBLI after setting on a mission to uncover everything there was to know about how a struggling reader learns to become proficient.

Amy Manning
Amy Manning
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Issue 13: Journey to Structured Linguistic Literacy | Julie VanLier Members Public

Julie VanLier, a kindergarten teacher at a high-poverty school in Southwest Michigan, shares the story of how her class of 28 students went from "on track for reading failure" to 20 points above the goal when she made the switch from Balanced Literacy to EBLI.

Julie VanLier
Julie VanLier
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Issue 13: On a Mission | Nora Chahbazi Members Public

Nora Chahbazi recounts her journey of how she went from being a Neonatal ICU nurse to establishing EBLI and making teaching to read her life's work.

Nora Chabhazi
Nora Chabhazi
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Issue 13: Journey to Structured Linguistic Literacy | Nicki Prati Members Public

Nicki Prati shares how Structured Linguistic Literacy helped lift the burden of cognitive overload and lightened the process of learning to read for her daughter, who spent years unsuccessfully trying to achieve mastery using various programs based on Print to Speech approaches.

Nicki Prati
Nicki Prati
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