What It's Worth

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This week we examine the value of our literacy work and the impact we have on our students, staff, and community.

1. The quote above comes from Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, motivational nonfiction by Elizabeth Gilbert that I finished this week and highly recommend.

2. Literacy is often combined with the content areas, but as I argue in this post, it is also a stand-alone discipline that deserves its own focus.

3. Why you should assign value to your creative work.

4. There was a strong response to the summary of Dr. Rachael Gabriel’s session at WSRA on dyslexia. I also recommend reading ILA’s position statement on this topic. The following data from the paper were highlighted by a colleague.

Among studies that measured long-term impacts of an intervention (six months to one year after the intervention) only Orton-Gillingham had a net negative effect size (-0.47). All others had a positive effect, ranging from 0.28 to 0.86.

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