The rumours are true, My Literacy Space will be coming to you weekly with a brand new podcast exploring all things structured literacy tips, multisensory activities, children’s picture book reviews and more. I’ll share with you some tips on how to create a literacy-rich environment at home or in the classroom. I’ll also share some fun activities that you can do with your kids that are meaningful, practical and impactful. In this episode, I'll chat about how My Literacy Space began and what you can expect from this podcast going forward.       Ready to get started?     ..read more

Michelle Breitenbach is an energetic and motivating presenter who will get you on your feet. She is a certified dyslexia practitioner and early literacy specialist from Boston, Massachusetts.  After working as a special educator for seven years, she established her own company in Miami, Florida, Read to Rewire. She supports students online as a private educator and coaches teachers globally. Michelle is passionate about teaching others how to engage students through less technology, movement, and games in the classroom and online, precisely those extra wiggly, inflexible thinkers. Michell ..read more

Shaime Cortes-Vega  started her career as an educator in 2009. In that time, she’s worked as a special education middle school teacher, an upper grades elementary school teacher, and has now been a literacy coach for four years. She’s also a professional development specialist for Education to the Core. She’s passionate about all things reading science and ADHD and love to share information about these two topics.    -What is ADHD? -The process of obtaining an ADHD diagnosis -Typical obstacles that kids with ADHD deal with during a day -Common diagnoses that would go together wi ..read more

Jeannette Roberes is an author who has worked as a speech pathologist, software engineer and educator. She has spoken in over 40 countries and has earned recognition in The Washington Post and U.S. News & World Report, among other professional acknowledgements. Jeannette’s commitment to life-long learning is noted through her LETRS® early childhood facilitator certification, Fast ForWord® and PROJECT READ® curriculum certifications. Her debut book, Technical Difficulties: Why Dyslexic Narratives Matter in Tech, has received 5 star reviews across Goodreads and Amazon. Jeannette is the chief ..read more

Rachel Beiswanger serves as a K-12 reading specialist. She works directly with students as an interventionist and also leads literacy initiatives to implement evidence-based practices at her school. She holds a master of education in reading and has been an educator for 12 years. Rachel is passionate about helping educators bridge research to practice and believes that prevention is the key to ending the literacy crisis.  In this episode we chat about: -What a  universal screener is and what specific ways that that gives us an overall view -How to move from a universal to more of a d ..read more

Hallee Adelman is an educator, writer, producer, and filmmaker. With a PhD in education, Adelman has taught elementary through university students and has been nominated for Disney Teacher of the Year on multiple occasions. This past April, Adelman released three new picture books published by Albert Whitman & Company. Way Past Lonely and Way Past Afraid, are the two latest books in Hallee’s Great Big Feelings series, joining 2020 titles Way Past Mad and Way Past Worried and 2021 titles Way Past Jealous and Way Past Sad. These Social Emotional Learning books help kids explore and manage th ..read more

Wendy Darasz and Jen Yagid are both Wilson certified and credentialed Dyslexia Practitioners. They have worked together for over 10 years. They are self-described Science of Reading geeks and are passionate about evidenced-based literacy instruction.    Wendy and Jen co-founded Informed Literacy in 2015 to help build a community of like-minded individuals and to spread the word about structured literacy practices. As reading specialists, they work with a diverse population of students, including regular and special education students and English language learners from kindergarten to ..read more

Sarah Paul is a reading interventionist for kindergarten through third grade. Prior to that, she taught first grade. Sarah has a blog called Sarah's Teaching Snippets that she started in 2010.   Sarah started studying dyslexia about ten years ago, which began her journey with the Science of Reading. She has received OG training through the Dyslexia Training Institute and additional training through PDX Reading Specialist.   In this episode, we'll discuss: What is a morpheme? What is morphology? Why is morphology important? How does morphology support reading and spelling acquisition ..read more

Rachel is a 1st grade teacher based in Atlanta, GA. After falling in love with early education through studying social emotional learning in her elementary education and special education undergraduate teaching program, Rachel found structured literacy through working at Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Reading Clinic. She developed structured multi-sensory instruction for students with diverse learning needs and brought this experience to the gen ed classroom starting in 2020.  Rachel taught Kindergarten online all year during the 2020-2021 school year out of Brooklyn, NY and built ..read more

Brittany Philipsen is entering her 18th year in public education, having spent eleven years as an elementary classroom teacher, and beginning year seven as an instructional coach.  Passionate about research-based literacy instruction, Brittany has completed LETRS training twice, Orton Gillingham training twice, holds a Structured Literacy certificate, and has a Master of Arts in Education with a concentration in Reading Science.  It is Brittany's mission to support teachers in ensuring that all students have access to high quality explicit reading instruction. In this episode you’ll ..read more