‘Reading Wars’ Panel Discussion

Join us for our first ever TeachThought Podcast live event!

Looking to unpack the complexity & nuance in the ‘reading wars’? Join us on January 2nd, 2023 at 5pm EDT for this live panel discussion with four great panelists and moderated by the host of the TeachThought Podcast and Director of TeachThought PD, Drew Perkins.

Our panelists:

• Emily Hanford: Senior Correspondent, American Public Media, host and lead producer of the Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong podcast
• Natalie Wexler: Author, The Knowledge Gap, co-author, The Writing Revolution. Natalie has also been a TeachThought Podcast guest twice, Feb 27, 2020 and Jan 22, 2019.
• Micki Ray: Kentucky Department of Education Chief Academic Officer, Policy Advisor, Literacy Consultant, Former HS English teacher
• Kate Winn: Kindergarten Teacher, Writer, Literacy advocate

This event will be hosted on Zoom and will be limited to 100 registered participants due to popular demand we have increased capacity to 500. The event will start at 5pm, EDT, and end no later than 6:30 EDT with a significant portion of the time dedicated to the panelists answering and discussing questions submitted by registered participants. A recording will be published as a TeachThought Podcast episode.

Registration is currently full but a recording will be published as one of our podcast episodes and will be available here and on your favorite podcast player: https://wegrowteachers.com/teachthought-podcast/.

Because space is limited, we kindly ask that you please only register if you plan on attending and please also cancel if you are unable to attend in order to allow others to register and attend.