Making high-quality text free and accessible, with Susanne Nobles
Meet Our Guest(s):
Susanne Nobles, Ph.D.
Susanne Nobles, Ph.D., has spent her career working to empower educators and students with research, structures, and tools for meaningful and effective learning. She is currently Chief Academic Officer at ReadWorks, an educational technology nonprofit, where she oversees research, pedagogy, and product. Before joining ReadWorks, she led the Digital Promise’s collaborative work with developers, researchers, and educators for the Learner Variability Project. Susanne is also an adjunct instructor at American University’s School of Education and Relay Graduate School of Education. She was a K–12 teacher and administrator for over 20 years, and her doctoral research focused on creating effective digital communities of practice to support student writing.
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. Throughout her career, she has focused on creating high-quality learning environments using evidence-based practices. Lambert 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, Lambert explores the increasing body of scientific research around how reading is best taught. As a former classroom teacher, administrator, and curriculum developer, Lambert 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
“It can be hard to remember that there’s a lot going into my reading today [that] I didn't have all along.”
“I have a fear that too much decoding practice can become ‘Why am I reading?’ We lose the ultimate point of why all of us read, which is to learn and to gain meaning.”
“Kids know when a text is worth their time.”
“We want to put a great book in a kid’s hands and have them get excited about reading and therefore get good at reading. And it really goes the other way. And so it’s once you build that ability to read, then that excitement comes with reading.”