There's a moment I've watched happen over and over again, Niepodam...

A teacher sits down, hears the actual research behind how kids learn to read, and something shifts in her face.

Not because she did something wrong.

Because she finally understands why it's been so hard.

Here's the truth nobody told you:

75% of teacher training programs never actually show how to teach reading. Not really.

You learned methods that researchers figured out decades ago were wrong.

And the curriculum your school handed you? Most of the top five reading curriculums in the country aren't based on the science of reading either.

Imagine someone handed you a recipe for a cake, told you it was the best recipe out there, and every single cake you baked came out flat.

You'd blame yourself, right? You'd think you must be doing something wrong.

But what if the recipe was just wrong to begin with?

That's exactly what happened to teachers. You were handed the wrong recipe and told to keep baking.

So you've been standing in front of struggling readers, pouring your heart into it, doing everything right by what you were taught, and wondering why it isn't working.

It isn't working because nobody gave you the right recipe. That is not your fault.

But here's the hope in all of this: when you finally learn what the science actually says about how kids learn to read, everything changes.

Teachers who learn it always say the same thing...

They wish they'd had it years ago because they walk back into their classrooms knowing exactly what to do and why it works.

That's what I built for you.

I took 70 years of research sitting in boring journal articles that nobody reads and put it into plain, simple English. Into something you can actually use with real kids, starting this fall.

Enrollment opens Sunday morning. Watch your inbox.

See you soon,

 
P.S. Summer is the window. You don't have 25 kids in front of you right now. You don't have parent emails and faculty meetings and name plates to laminate.

You have time to actually learn this before your students walk back through that door.

That's exactly why I'm opening enrollment now and not in September.

 
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