First Person
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.
Issue 13: Journey to Structured Linguistic Literacy | Nicki Prati Paid 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.
Issue 12: Where's Katy? One Mom's Journey from Fear to Freedom | Susan Beddingfield Paid Members Public
Susan Beddingfield talks of her journey from fear to freedom as she learned to embrace her daughter's unique learning style and dyslexia diagnosis.
Issue 11: How Dyslexia has helped me in my Education and Work | Barry Walsh Paid Members Public
Barry Walsh talks about how having dyslexia and dyspraxia has defined him at various stages in his life and offers practical advice to individuals at each stage, so they can find success along the way just as he did.
