From education outsider to literacy expert, with Todd Collins
Meet Our Guest(s):
Todd Collins
Todd Collins is an organizer of the California Reading Coalition, a movement of educators, advocates, parents, and policymakers committed to improving school instruction and outcomes for California’s six million students. He is also a school board member in Palo Alto, California. After a career in technology and finance, his primary focus is on supporting and improving California public education.
Meet our host, Susan Lambert
Susan Lambert is the Chief Academic Officer of Elementary Humanities at Amplify, and the host of Science of Reading: The Podcast. Her career has been focused on creating high-quality learning environments using evidence-based practices. Susan is a mom of four, a grandma of four, a world traveler, and a collector of stories.
As the host of Science of Reading: The Podcast, Susan explores the increasing body of scientific research around how reading is best taught. As a former classroom teacher, administrator, and curriculum developer, Susan is dedicated to turning theory into best practices that educators can put right to use in the classroom, and to showcasing national models of reading instruction excellence.
Transcripts and additional resources:
Quotes
“We have to help everybody kind of collectively align our voices and help people who wanna find out more about this, find out more about it.”
“If the pieces of the system aren't all working together, then you just don't achieve sustained change.”
“Leaders have a critical function. They communicate to everybody in a state or in an organization what's important. You don't have to tell 'em what to do, but you need to tell 'em what the goal is.”
“Teachers aren't the problem. Teachers are the solution.”
“We simply can't call ourselves a great school district unless we get great results for our most challenged and least resourced students.”
“It's not a new thing to be concerned about the low achievement among low-income students but it's a relatively new thing to do something about it.”
