We have an award for a fully-funded Ph.D. student in Literacy at UNR, starting mid-August. Need to live in/close to Reno (a super cool city in Tahoe's backyard). Deadline to apply is June 15th. See comments for link to apply and how to contact me!

Here is the link to our open program officer position. It will open on 5/23. The posting closes after the first 150 applications...
usajobs.gov/job/792654500

Excited to share big news! This Fall I will be a Full Professor in the Rehabilitation Psychology & Special Education Dept UW–Madison School of Education UW–Madison #OnWisconsin #GoBadgers

there was some buzz today about whether teaching using #explicitinstruction is a good idea. short answer: it is. longer: initial teaching using EI reduces working memory load & builds fluency--facilitating later generalization... Martin (2016) explains: researchgate.net/profile/Andrew…

Emily Hanford ILA Devin Kearns Mark Seidenberg Now open access :)
ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

Emily Hanford ILA Devin Kearns Mark Seidenberg We've worked with Wiley to make this article open access for the next two weeks.

Please go ahead and download right from the site: ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

I really enjoyed my conversation with Devin Kearns about teaching students to read longer words. We covered a lot! themeasuredmom.com/teaching-stude…

Thank you Dr. Rachael Gabriel for giving people the opportunity to read the paper! Colleagues—if you’d like to read, please DM her!

New article in ILA 'The Reading Teacher' by Devin Kearns and Matthew J. Cooper Borkenhagen that's worth reading. (Paywall - sorry!) ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…
Expands on important stuff about how people learn that Mark Seidenberg talked about in Ep 10. of Sold a Story.

Devin Kearns One Key Finding: '..PA-only instruction had no significant effect on PA or word reading outcomes when compared to print-based instruction.' Comparison condition did not include PA.

Again,,, essential to add… most important… hear the message from Sharon Vaughn herself… corelearn.com/resource-posts… you will be glad you did 😀 … if you ever wanted to listen to someone who is a true scientist who focuses on data-based ideas, it’s her.