For #DyslexiaAwarenessMonth, we’ve gathered resources for educators & caregivers to equip them to meet the literacy needs of all readers. 🔹 TRL Compass Families & Caregivers page: https://bit.ly/3WoHFiJ 🔹 TRL Journal Article: https://bit.ly/4oMiX95 🔖 Bookmark & share these with your networks.

🧩Learning to talk & read isn’t just about effort or teaching—it’s shaped by biology, experience & context 🧠Our new review links genetics, neuroscience, psychology & education to show why some children find language or reading easier. 📖 doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🖼️genes→brain→cognition→behaviour 🧵👇

October is Dyslexia Awareness Month. #Dyslexia 🗺 #EduSky #SOR

Save the date! This conference is planned and organized by educators doing the work! The conference will be held in the lovely town of Westerly, Rhode Island. The keynote speaker is our very own Rhode Islander, Kari Kurto from the Reading League! More info is coming soon! March 28, 2026 🗓

More than 5,200 educators joined TRL’s summer book study to strengthen literacy instruction & spark change! 📚 Missed it? Access free recordings, slides & resources + see how this “common read” united educators across the continent: https://bit.ly/4nu2vta

I lost an uncle and three cousins to this dreadful disease. I am so glad there is hope. www.bbc.com/news/article...

A new @edweek.org article by Sarah Schwartz shows how the science of reading can better support English learners (EL) & emergent bilingual (EB) students. ⬇️ Read it below. 🔗 Looking for resources to support your EL/EB students better? Explore TRL Compass: thereadingleague.org/compass/engl...

Awesome resource for #civics #education! Thanks PBS Learning! (Another good reason to support your local station if you haven't already) 🍎 #sschat #TLSky 📚 🗃️ @pbs.org @wgbh.org

How can school leaders drive lasting change in reading outcomes? Our latest #TRLJournal “From the Archives” highlights Dr. Brenda Warren’s years of insights on partnering with superintendents, building strong curriculum teams & sustaining Structured Literacy for all. 📘: https://bit.ly/421RR3Z

Brain Development Signals Reading Challenges Long Before Kindergarten www.the74million.org/zero2eight/b...

From classrooms to the statehouse, Colorado shows that real change happens when educators, families & policymakers unite. Learn how TRL Colorado’s 5280 Literacy Symposium sparked a movement that led to a new dyslexia screening law: https://bit.ly/3IzLled #ItTakesALeague #TRLChaptersInAction

Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) is all about language. But what do we mean by 'language'? Share, print and explain all about language so more people know about DLD. #DLDday is Friday October 17th 2025. Theme: you can't see DLD. radld.org #DevLangDis

Combating disinformation needs human-led, AI-enabled disruption [Advocacy Lab Content]

Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) is a difficulty with understanding & using words & sentences. That might seem like a small issue to you, but to people with DLD this can be a huge barrier. The biggest barrier of all is NEXT TO NO ONE HAS HEARD OF DLD. Help us change that! #DLDday #DevLangDis

Chattel slavery was, is, and will always be evil. The false narrative of the happy enslaved human is a fairytale told by people that don’t want to face reality. #TeachTruth #sschat #edusky

Make a new social studies unit seem relevant to students *and* set the stage for critical thinking! 💭 How? Using staging lessons! Here’s a guide. #ITeachSocialStudies #sschat

Morning read.

We often remind people to do a quick keyword search when they aren't sure about a claim. But with incorrect #AI overviews popping up first, that tip isn't always enough. 🤖 AI tools don't "know" facts. And if we aren't careful, they can easily reinforce #misinformation. 🎞 Watch our TikTok ⤵️

This school year felt long and fast! So grateful for the collaborative environment, amazing colleagues, and wonderful kids. Looking forward to continuing our work to advance all learners next year!

Adolescent literacy is often overlooked & misunderstood. Dr. Mitchell Brookins recently joined EDVIEW360 to reframe the conversation. 🎧 Listen in for insights on targeted, multi-component interventions that can help middle & high school students move forward. ⬇️

All #NIH grants have now terminated here at #Harvard, including ours, which examined shared/distinct underlying neural & cognitive mechanisms between typical/atypical #arithmetic and #reading skills. Results would have been invaluable for development of #screening, diagnostic, & intervention tools.

As someone who has worked on/with state social studies standards for many states, this is among the most egregious examples of conspiracy thinking to make it into state SS standards I have ever seen, and through a clearly duplicitous process. 1/2 #sschat www.oudaily.com/news/oklahom...

We turned our most recent Sold a Story episodes into a one-hour program for @revealnews.org. You can hear it on public radio stations nationwide this weekend, and here: revealnews.org/podcast/read...

The news is out - coming in January from me & Stephanie Stollar via Scholastic! We get so many questions from teachers about reading assessment, and this book covers everything you need to know! {Image is a placeholder; actual cover design to be revealed soon!}

Reading, language development and science of learning people - the excellent Prof Pamela Snow @pamelasnow.bsky.social has arrived on this platform! Do follow, add to lists, say hi etc!

Rethinking Cognitive Load Theory for Collaborative Learning Collaborative learning when poorly designed is confusing and wasteful. When rooted in what we know about cognition and instructional design, it becomes a powerful tool for learning. #Edusky www.kirschnered.nl/2025/04/21/r...

UIC SPED PhD student @temioni7.bsky.social is competing in the #AERA2025 Shark Tank competition! Temi is doing super interesting work in writing instruction for students with IDD. Watch the videos and vote here: blackandbelonging.com/polls/shark-... #AcademicSky #EduSky

At 10pm Tuesday, I got notice that my 3yr IMLS grant was terminated. No reason given & termination *backdated* a week (I’m told the official termination is lost in the mail). This is absolutely devastating & totally meaningless. I can’t email my PO because the entire agency is on admin leave. 1/n

A great start to high school baseball. I am proud of his hard work and dedication. ❤️⚾️❤️ www.thewesterlysun.com/sports/lates...

“In social studies—a subject to which schools have historically given short shrift in favor of devoting time and resources to math and reading—the loss of these kinds of supplemental resources and programs may take an especially big toll.” #sschat www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

April is National Bilingual/Multilingual Learner Advocacy Month. Dr. Elsa Cárdenas-Hagan reminds us that multilingual learners bring prior knowledge, experiences & strengths related to language & learning. Educators play a key role in identifying & building upon these assets to enrich classrooms.

Cuts to the Institute of Education Sciences = cuts to research, data & tools that help kids—especially struggling readers & students w/ disabilities. Tell Congress: Protect IES funding. #StandUpForReadingResearch Call your RI Congressional Reps: opengov.sos.ri.gov/GOVDirectory...

The Education Department RIF represents “a tsunami,” says Felice Levine, executive director of the American Educational Research Association. “It leaves IES without even a skeletal staff to do the work that Congress has mandated.” www.science.org/content/arti...

Thanks for standing up!

This week is our Stand Up for Edu Research Week of ACTION to — to save IES and federal edu research funding. Our first zoom teach in and action call is tomorrow! Please register/join us and please boost & share, online and off! @dynarski.bsky.social @mpolikoff.bsky.social @katepeeples.bsky.social

A heartfelt read. 🗺 #sschat

Forget all the analogies, for a moment. Never before was a century-old democracy destroyed from within. Thus: “[T]he most likely path to American autocracy depends on not only a power-hungry president but also the voluntary capitulation of a cowed civil society.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/o...

Check out the turn out in tiny Rhode Island! So proud of my peeps!!!

This is what democracy looks like in Providence, RI #handsoff @indivisibleri.bsky.social @indivisible.org @alexagagosz.bsky.social @fitzprov.bsky.social @tednesi.bsky.social @globeri.bsky.social @steveahlquist.bsky.social @nancyklavin.bsky.social

Massive crowd at Boston’s city hall plaza for the #HandsOff protest against Trump and Musk

Incredibly important action from IHEP, @aefpweb.bsky.social and @publiccitizen.bsky.social to fight the administration's dismantling of the Institute of Education Sciences. #EduSky www.citizen.org/news/lawsuit...