In Glean's Research to Practice podcast, we interview education experts from around the world to bring their fascinating findings out from the journal pages and into your classroom.
In this episode, we chat with Dr. Katie Wolfe, Ph.D., an assistant professor of Early Childhood Special Education in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of South Carolina about data-based decision making.
In this episode, Dr. Carol Moxam shares with us her experience as an SLP running a writing lab for struggling students and discusses what teachers need to know about spelling instruction.
In this episode, we chat with Nancy Hennessey about her latest book, the Reading Comprehension Blueprint, and what teachers need to know about teaching this important skill.
Dr. White chats with Glean Education about some key takeaways for successful coaching in literacy instruction.
In this podcast, we chat with Dr. Jade Wexler, Associate Professor of Special Education at the University of Maryland, College Park about her research on improving co-teaching outcomes through professional development in comprehension instruction strategies delivered during content-area instruction.
This podcast episode was sponsored by Heggerty Phonemic Awareness. What's Inside: In this episode, we chat with Dr. Adrea Truckenmiller, Assistant Professor at Michigan State University, about her research on screening middle school students in written expression. Dr. Truckenmiller explores how practice and feedback are critical factors in building student's writing skills and how writing assessment in writing should be added as part of a universal screening protocol to prevent writing difficulties before they arise.Dr. Truckenmiller teaches masters and doctoral courses in Special Education, and mentors doctoral student research in the Special Education program and the School Psychology program at Michigan State University. She was also a researcher at the Florida Center for Reading Research where she directed the development of reading and writing screening and diagnostic assessments as well as state-wide professional development to use those assessments to inform differentiated instruction. Prior to that, she was a coach for district-wide positive behavior support and multi-tiered systems of support at the Devereaux Center for Effective Schools Devereux Center for Effective Schools. She is dedicated to exploring the link between assessments and classroom instruction.
This podcast episode was sponsored by Heggerty Phonemic Awareness. Listen in as we talk to Dr. Young-Suk Grace Kim, Ed.D., professor and senior associate dean of the School of Education at the University of California, Irvine about the importance of listening comprehension in developing skilled readers.In this podcast, we talk about her recent journal article, The Relations of Online Reading Processes (Eye Movements) with Working Memory, Emergent Literacy Skills, and Reading Proficiency.Dr. Kim received her doctorate in education from Harvard University. Dr. Kim received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) by President Barack Obama in 2012; and the Developing Scholar Award and University Teaching Award at the Florida State University. She currently serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Educational Psychology, and will be the incoming Editor-in-Chief for the Scientific Studies of Reading. Her career has included classroom teaching in San Francisco, California, and pre-service teacher training. Professor Kim’s primary research areas include language, cognition, and literacy acquisition and instruction across languages and writing systems. Her research has been supported by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the U. S. Department of Education, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), and the National Science Foundation (NSF).
In this episode, we chat with Donna Hejtmanek, the founder of the Science of Reading Facebook Group, and one of the group's moderators, Pam Kastner, about how the group formed and how it supports its members.
In this podcast, we chat with Dr. Tim Odegard about his research on universal screening data from three states with dyslexia screening laws.
In this episode, Dr. Katharine Pace Miles, Assistant Professor in Early Childhood Education at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. Her research focuses on many different areas of literacy instruction including orthographic facilitation, sight word learning, assessment, and developmentally appropriate, highly engaging, explicit literacy instruction for emerging readers.
In this episode, we chat with Dr. James Booth and Marisa Lytle about their work at Vanderbilt University to make over 3000 brain imaging data sets available through Open Neuro to support reading and math development research.
In this episode, we chat with Dr. Maryanne Wolf, Director of the UCLA Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice about the intersection between literacy instruction and social justice.
In this episode, we chat with Dr. Kit Mohr about letter recognition and handwriting instruction.
In this episode, we spoke with Dr. Jenny Wells, Associate Professor of Special Education at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Jessica Miranda, Doctoral Candidate in Educational Psychology and Director of Assessment, Accreditation, and Accountability for the College of Education at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. We’ll be chatting with them about their 2017 paper published in Language Teaching Research entitled "Preparing special education teacher candidates to teach ELLs with disabilities: How well are we doing?".
In this episode, we’re excited to speak to two researchers in the field of intensified instruction and data-based decision making: Dr. Jessica Toste and Marissa Filderman, both from University of Texas at Austin. We’ll be talking about their article “Data-Based Decision Making in Reading Interventions: A Synthesis and Meta-analysis of the Effects for Struggling Readers” published in 2018 in the Journal of Special Education.
In this episode, we speak with Emerson Dickman, JD about his role in creating the definition of dyslexia used in most state laws today. Emerson shares with us the pitfalls and the positives that have followed the creation of the definition.
In this episode, we chat with Dr. Erin Washburn (Binghamton University) about what teachers know about the basic constructs of literacy and how she’s working to support teacher knowledge in this area.
Listen to our conversation with Dr. Nadine Gaab of Harvard University as she chats about early screening and supporting students with reading difficulties.
Dr. Hasbrouck talks about what reading fluency is, what Oral Reading Fluency measures are, and about her recent research on national fluency norms.
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Puglisi about her study, "The Home Literacy Environment is a Correlate, but Perhaps Not a Cause of Variations in Children's Language and Literacy Development".
In this episode, we chat with Vanderbilt University researcher, professor, and speech-language pathologist Melanie Schuele on the importance of direct, explicit phonological awareness in reading instruction particularly for students with reading difficulties.
In this podcast, Glean Education's founder Jessica Hamman explains why she created Glean Education and this podcast.