A new school year looms and teachers are returning to their classrooms to begin preparing for a new group of students. What’s it like as an educator to get kids off their summer schedule and back into a learning mode? Additionally, data shows that over two decades of reading progress was wiped out while schools were shuttered during the pandemic. Plus, roughly 1 in 5 students are affected by the reading disorder of dyslexia.
What are the strategies teachers are using to improve literacy skills? Education Matters, the WHRO series that examines the challenges educators are facing in their classrooms returns Wednesday with in-studio guests Heidi Lewis, Director of Elementary Curriculum and Instruction, for Portsmouth Public Schools, and Tony Quaranta, who was diagnosed with dyslexia in elementary school and has mentored students with the reading disorder. They’ll discuss strategies they have used to help students who struggle with reading and writing and how to create different learning environments for students.
Education Matters airs Wednesday at noon on 89.5 WHRV FM and streams live at WHRV.org. You can also find this episode and the archives online.
