The question you're stuck on isn't whether the Science of Reading Formula is any good, Niepodam...

It's whether it would work in your room.

So here are four rooms. Not one of them looks like the others.

Karen teaches kindergarten in Georgia, and she's done it for thirty years.

For most of those years, a handful of her kids left in June still not reading. Same handful, every single year, no matter how hard she worked.
Last fall, that stopped.

Her kindergartners took off so fast that her principal came looking for her to learn what she was doing differently, then her academic coach, and eventually she was asked to explain it to the entire staff.

Thirty years in, and she's the one everybody wants to learn from now.

Here's what she'd tell you about becoming a Science of Reading Formula member: "Don't hesitate. Don't think. Just do it, and you will never ever be sorry."

Pauline is a reading intervention teacher, so she doesn't get just one grade level. She gets all of them.

Kindergarten, first, and second grade, all in the same day. Different ages, different skills, different problems.

That used to mean her whole evening. Every group needed its own plan, and every plan meant hunting for activities that matched the skill she was teaching.
But now she opens the Formula vault, finds the skill her group is stuck on, and prints it.

Pauline’s kids are getting further, faster and she finally has her nights and weekends back.

Andrea is a dyslexia specialist. Her district picked her curriculum and she wasn't allowed to swap it out.

The trouble was that it never gave her students enough practice. They'd have a skill down by Friday and lose it by Monday, and she'd be back to reteaching the same thing all over again.

She knew exactly what was missing. She just didn't have it.

So Andrea started using the Formula alongside her curriculum. She'd find the skill a child was stuck on, pull the practice built for that one thing, and this time it stuck.

She used to walk into October conferences with an apology and a plan. Sorry he isn't further along, here's what we're going to try next.

Now she walks in with a list of everything he can do that he couldn't do in September.

And then there's Kim, who didn't mention lesson plans or hours saved at all.

When we asked her about being a Science of Reading Formula member, she said: "It's AMAZING!! I wish everybody in my district would buy in and use these resources!"

She's not keeping this one to herself. What happened in her room was big enough that she wants it happening in every room for every teacher around her.
Four rooms.

A thirty-year veteran, an intervention teacher, a specialist locked into someone else's curriculum, and a teacher who wants to hand it to her whole district.

Not one of them was unusually lucky. Every one of them was sitting exactly where you are right now, wondering whether it would really work for them.

They all get to keep going this fall. Tonight decides whether you do too.