
TRT Podcast #213: The principal’s role in using MTSS to improve reading outcomes – with Sharon Dunn
Sharon Dunn, a former principal of a high-poverty school, shares the process that she and her staff used to drastically improve reading outcomes. This episode offers a blueprint for principals looking to lead meaningful reading improvement in their own schools.
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Learn more from Sharon Dunn:
- Sharon’s Facebook group for administrators: Science of Reading for Administrators-What Teachers Want You to Know
- Literacy Leaders: A Key Lever for Literacy Equity, presentation from PaTTAN
- Bringing the Science of Reading to Light Using MTSS: One School’s Story, webinar with Stephanie Stollar
- Article with Voyager Sopris, Preventing Reading Failure and Interpreting Assessment Data: What Every Principal Needs to Know
- Administrators: What Does It Really Take to Fix the Reading Problem in Schools, presentation from PaTTAN
- ACSA Leadership Magazine article, Who is in the Driver’s Seat? Using Data to Drive Instructional Practices that Improve Literacy
- EdWeb panel interview webinar with Teri Noland, Building a Text-Rich Environment to Support All Readers: What Leaders Need to Know
- Voyager Sopris article with Stephanie Stollar, Universal Screening: Why Newer or Shinier May Not Necessarily Be Better
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