Shoelace

📚 Oklahoma schools are showing what's possible when student engagement comes first.

Through the OPSRC × Shoelace Learning partnership, students achieved approximately 1 year of reading growth in just 10 weeks while building stronger reading habits and engagement. 📈✨

This is the impact of educators, school leaders, and students working together to tackle adolescent literacy. 🤝 🤝

🎯 Our goal for 2026–2027: support 50 Oklahoma schools.

💬 Comment GROWTH and we'll send you information on booking a meeting with Julia Dexter to learn how your school or district can participate.

📚 We don't have a reading problem.

We have a stamina problem.

Many struggling readers aren't getting meaningful reading practice because they've stopped engaging with reading altogether.

Engagement isn't a nice-to-have. It's the intervention.

👇 Comment STAMINA and we'll send you the free trial link.

🌞 Michigan educators: keep students reading all summer long.

The Michigan Summer Reading Tournament combines game-based learning, adaptive literacy instruction, and friendly competition to keep Grades 4–9 students engaged.

✔ Turnkey summer literacy program
✔ 30-minute onboarding
✔ Live progress tracking
✔ NWEA MAP-aligned reporting

Less setup. More engagement. Better summer reading outcomes.
👇 Comment SUMMER and we'll send you the details.

💙 A huge thank you to Oklahoma educators, school leaders, and our partners at , especially Dr. April Grace.

Your commitment to adolescent literacy is helping students read more, engage more, and grow more. 📚📈

We're grateful to be part of this work and excited for what's ahead.

🎯 2026–2027 goal: 50 Oklahoma schools
⏳ Enrollment open until July 31

🤝 Interested in joining the movement? Book a meeting with Julia Dexter (link in bio / top comment).

📚 "We don't have a reading problem. We have an engagement problem."
💭 That's the conversation.

Over the next few weeks, Dr. Kris Alexander answers teachers' biggest questions about reading motivation, game-based learning, and why engagement is the foundation for growth.

🎮 Why do some students love reading while others avoid it?
✨ What actually motivates reluctant readers?
📈 And how can engagement drive real literacy growth?

If you've ever wondered why some students refuse to read, start here.
👇 Share this with a teacher who needs to hear it.