Andrea A. Gallo, Advocate

10/04/2026

Such a great organization. Wonderful film.

09/26/2026

But the ability to recognize and manipulate written words will still be a critical skill, say most educators, because it is inextricably linked to thinking. Decades of research in psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, and education suggest that becoming literate changes how people reason, solve problems, organize knowledge, and deliberate on their own thinking. “The mental work that is reading,” says Moats, “is the essence of learning.”

Louisa Moats’ teacher-training program is painstaking, pricey, and decades old. It’s also the hot new thing

09/24/2026

This is your brain when you are learning to read.

Your brain builds what you repeat.

Neuroscience explains why:

Think about your first driving lesson. The mirrors. The pedals. The steering. The speed. What other cars were doing.
One journey required dozens of conscious decisions. Then, after enough practice, something changed.

You could drive somewhere without consciously thinking through every movement. You did not suddenly become more talented.
Your brain physically changed.

Every time you practised, the same networks in your brain were activated and built.

Through neuroplasticity, repeated activity built and strengthened the connections between them.

Author - ThinkShift/thinkshift.co

09/12/2026

🧠Your brain grows toward what you repeat. Every thought you keep returning to. Every reaction you allow. Every pattern you feed - that's the direction you're building.

This is why repetative practice helps students learn.

- video credit: The Quantara

06/07/2026

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06/06/2026

Fix the system!
- identify early
-teach explicitly
-and give access (Audiobooks + choice texts + structured literacy)

01/23/2026

https://youtu.be/X1L1Hd3xfrU

Reading may feel like something that comes naturally, but it's taken thousands of years for our brains to develop the capacity to do it. Click here to subscr...

12/27/2025

If reading were taught better, almost all students would benefit, and students with neurological differences would be easier to identify and treat before their difficulties with reading derailed their lives. "There's a window of opportunity to intervene," a cognitive neuroscientist said. "You don't want to let that go."

Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them?

10/19/2025

October is Dyslexia Awareness Month and the Multistory Reading Center has launched "Ask an Expert" to help provide information for parents and teachers. I was honored to be asked to join Karen Bruton to get it started. We hope parents find the videos helpful!

Meet our expert Academic Language Therapists at Multisensory Reading Center. Enhance reading skills today! Contact us now.

09/22/2025

The Dyslexia Paradox

">> a wide gap currently stands between the time children are identified as having a reading impairment and the start of intensive intervention. This is particularly problematic for children diagnosed with dyslexia, she said, adding that researchers call this the “dyslexia paradox.” The majority of school districts in the U.S. employ a “wait-to-fail” approach, meaning that many children are only flagged by the school system after they have failed to learn to read over a prolonged period of time — often years — even though there’s evidence that reading intervention is most effective earlier. The experience of failure can erode self-esteem, she said, and lead to the higher rates of anxiety and depression that are found in struggling readers."

Developmental trajectories of children with and without reading disabilities start to diverge around 18 months, rather than at 5 or 6 years old.