First Person
Issue 16: The Dystinct Journey of Smart Hopewell Paid Members Public
Smart Hopewell shares a poignant personal narrative in this article, delving into his personal experience with dyslexia while emphasising the vital role of support, effective coping mechanisms, and embracing one's unique strengths and passions in navigating and thriving with a learning difference.
Issue 16: The Dystinct Journey of Amanda Benavidez Paid Members Public
Amanda Benavidez shares her journey of turning challenges posed by ADHD and dyslexia into superpowers, propelling her success in various artistic pursuits.
Issue 15: Take Charge of Your Child's Education: A Guide to Personalized Learning | by Mary Resenbeck Paid 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.
Issue 13: From Learning Disabled to Enabled | Wendy Crick Paid 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.
Issue 13: Journey to Structured Linguistic Literacy | Erin Sain Paid 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.
Issue 13: My Journey Through Literacy Instruction | Amy Manning Paid 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.
Issue 13: Journey to Structured Linguistic Literacy | Julie VanLier Paid 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.
Issue 13: On a Mission | Nora Chahbazi Paid 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.
