2025 WSRA Conference

Infinite Pages: The Unfolding Story of Literacy

Registration is now OPEN!

2025 WSRA Conference will be at the Baird Center in Milwaukee from February 6-7, 2025.

The  Online Conference Program, Information, and Registration are available on the 2025 WSRA Conference Site.

 
2025 WSRA Conference

 

 

 

 

WSRA Reading Councils 2024-2025 
Virtual Professional Development Series
 
Fighting Fake News: Helping Learners to Identify and Interrogate Information Pollution
 

Featuring Dr. Jeffrey Wilhelm

Thursday, November 21, 2024
6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Via Zoom
 
Register Here!
 
 

 

WSRA Fall Update Newsletter is now available.

In this WSRA Update:

  • WSRA President's Message
  • Upcoming WSRA Local Council Virtual Professional Development Series
  • A Call to Action: Recruit New Members!
  • Attention Retired Educators
  • Wisconsin State Reading Association Committee Work: An Opportunity to Share Your Expertise
  • Elementary Reading Committee Shares Insightful Book Reviews for Professional Growth 
  • WSRA State Council Coordinator Update
  • 2024 Conference Highlights Developing our Expertise and Honoring Literacy Excellence in Action
  • Research Grounds Us!
Members Can Access the WSRA Update Here!

 

 

Fact Checking the Science of Reading

Free access and download to this text, Fact Checking the Science of Reading: Opening Up the Conversation

"Rob Tierney and P David Pearson explore the validity of claims associated with the Science of Reading as they have appeared in social media, the popular press, and academic works.

The book offers a comprehensive review of these claims—analyzing the evidence, reasoning, assumptions, and consequences associated with each claim—and closes with ideas for moving beyond the debates to greater consensus or accommodation of differences. The book is a must read for educators involved in teaching reading, as well as parents, policy makers, and other stakeholders."

Access the entire book here

 

"Toward Comprehensive, Research-Informed Literacy Instruction: Thinking With, Against, and Beyond the Science of Reading"

Sponsored by the Ithaca College Department of Education, February 22, 2024

2024 Ithaca College Educational Freedom Lecture

Featuring Maren Aukerman

Recording of the 2024 Spring Educational Freedom Lecture at Ithaca College, featuring Dr. Maren Aukerman, Werklund Research Professor at the University of Calgary

Watch it on the Ithaca College Site
 
 

Science of Reading Unpacked Podcast on FreshEd

with Elena Aydarova

Elena unpacks how the Science of Reading has been used to push an agenda of standardization and privatization.

 Elena Aydarova, an assistant professor in the educational policy studies department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She has two recent publications on the science of reading: One in Harvard Educational Review entitled “‘Whatever you want to call it’: Science of Reading Mythologies in the Education Reform Movement” and a second article in the American Journal of Education entitled “What you see is not what you get: Science of reading reforms as a guise for standardization, centralization, and privatization.”

 
Listen to Elena on FreshEd
 
 
 
Debunking SoR Neuroscience Claims Webinar

From April 24, 2024 - with Dr. Steven Strauss

Sponsored by the California Association for Bilingual Education (CABE)

Dr. Steven Strauss, an MD in Neurology and PhD in Linguistics shares his critical analysis of the false neuroscience and linguistic claims promoted by the Science of Reading. Insights from experts in neuroscience, linguistics and biliteracy are the focus of this Webinar.

Watch on Youtube

 

Dr. Steven Strauss answers questions following his webinar,"Debunking Science of Reading Neuroscience Claims" 

Presented by Dr. Steven Strauss

Sponsored by the California Association for Bilingual Education (CABE)

 

From June 4, 2024 - with Dr. Robert J Tierney and  Dr. P David Pearson

Sponsored by the California Association for Bilingual Education (CABE)

Tierney and Pearson highlight the information and claims associated with the Science of Reading as they have appeared in social media, the popular press, and academic works from their book, Fact-Checking The Science of Reading.

  
 Watch on Youtube

 

   

  Join a WSRA Local Council!

WSRA's work is extended through local councils which engage in charitable  and educational activities and initiatives consistent with the mission of the Association. Network with other literacy experts in your area. Consider joining your local council!

Visit our Local Councils' Pages for more information.

Visit Us Here!

 

 
 

WSRA's Mission

The Wisconsin State Reading Association provides leadership, advocacy, and professional learning for implementing effective literacy practices, understanding the complex nature of literacy, honoring the unique needs of our diverse students, and engaging them to apply their literacies in meaningful ways in a changing world.

 

WSRA's Beliefs

Expertise Matters!

Research Grounds Us!

Literacy is a complex process requiring a comprehensive approach and a mindset shift.


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