REAP and Georgia College are training hundreds of pre-service teachers in Structured Literacy with help from IDA-GA Education Grants. 2021-2022 is REAP’s third year training students at Georgia College. This program not only prepared future teachers, but led to Jones County working with REAP to train ALL their K-2 teachers district-wide!
Read more about the Georgia College SL training program, the Jones County program and IDA-GA in the online newsletter at:
The Reading League Georgia is now a full-blown chapter! Four REAP team members are spearheading this important venture. The goal is to improve literacy in Georgia students by embracing evidence-aligned reading instruction. The Reading League Georgia is committed to advancing “the Science of Reading” throughout Georgia so that all Georgia children can learn to read.
REAP welcomes Lisa Glickman into the role of Director of Education. After training hundreds of teachers as REAP’s Senior Literacy Leader since 2015, Lisa is excited to take on a larger role in project planning and implementation.
REAP Founders Jen & Jeremy Rhett: their dyslexic kids inspired them to help 40,000 readers
They planned to train 1 teacher and ended up training more than 1,000
REAP was born out of a passion to help struggling readers. Jen and Jeremy Rhett are the parents of dyslexic children. They saw firsthand how their kids blossomed with the help of specially trained tutors. They knew that lots of kids struggle with reading for a variety of reasons. They also knew that most of these kids would never have a tutor, which means they would likely fall behind their peers. They would struggle to keep up in middle and high school, then struggle to find a good job.
“Structured Literacy changed our kids’ lives and we knew it could help other kids who might never learn to read otherwise.”
REAP is very excited to host the first meeting of The Reading League in Georgia! Whether you know a little or a lot about the Science of Reading, we encourage you to join us for this virtual event. We’ll hear about about improving literacy in Georgia students by embracing evidence-aligned reading instruction. The Reading League is committed to advancing “the Science of Reading” throughout Georgia so that all Georgia children can learn to read.
Please register by March 15th to reserve your spot at this virtual event.
Burgess-Peterson teacher leading the -dge lesson in 2019
Four decades of reading research have provided undeniable evidence about how children learn to read. This evidence has not made its way into most classrooms where many children are still failing to learn to read. These children can learn to read when we align reading instruction with the evidence. The Reading League’s mission is to advance the awareness, understanding, and use of evidence-aligned reading instruction. Join Laura Stewart as she shares the journey of The Reading League, the conceptual models which underscore the mission, and the exciting next steps to forming a Reading League chapter here in Georgia!
All children deserve to learn to read, and all teachers can learn to teach them.
Join REAP’s Carla Stanford for an important conversation about reading, literacy, and young children:
“Conversations, Books and Building Brains: the Importance of Talking & Reading to Children”
Virtual “Lunch”-n-learn event Presented by The Boyce L Ansley School Date: Tuesday, March 16 Time: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. ET
During this virtual lunchtime event, Carla joins Julie Washington, Ph.D. and Kelly Wix, M.Ed. in discussing childhood literacy education and The Ansley School’s mission to break the cycle of generational poverty by building strong readers.
REAP special edition newsletter topics: You can change a child’s life! Help fund REAP’s critical COVID literacy initiative: 🎯 Intervention for At-Risk Readers, including a pilot program at the Ansley School. See how your past support has enabled REAP to help lots of kids and hundreds of teachers who will go on to help thousands more kids.
REAP October 2020 newsletter topics: Dyslexia Awareness month + dyslexia resources. There’s also an update on expanding our program to train Georgia College pre-service teachers in Structured Literacy.
REAP celebrates 🎉 Lisa Glickman: training teachers, tutoring readers AND winning an IDA-GA award!🏆 Training teachers, tutoring struggling readers, and advocating for dyslexia education and awareness.
Not on our mailing list yet? Check out the REAP July 2020 newsletter. Topics: Coming soon…REAP instructional videos 🎬 + Boyce Ansley literacy project 😊. REAP approaches a milestone with nearly 1000 teachers trained!
Training Georgia College pre-service teachers with REAP’s first online training session. Learn how REAP is moving forward despite the challenges of COVID-19 and its impact on struggling readers.
