EduCon 2025

The majority of students, regardless of age or ability level, suffer from sub-literacy: reading, spelling, and writing below or well below their potential. Whether you are a teacher or administrator serving elementary to high school students, you are impacted by this epidemic. Effective, efficient literacy solutions and outside-the-box thinking at all tiers of instruction are imperative to tackle this pervasive problem. Why is it that 67% of 4th graders in the US are not proficient in reading? What social and emotional impact does this have on them, including when they become adults who are not proficient in reading? What is the negative impact on communities and society? And the most important question of all: Can this be remedied? If so, how? Our ‘Brain Trust’ collaborative has been discussing and, more importantly, taking action to address the question of ‘how’. The good news is that we have realized, through experience teaching emerging readers through secondary students and adults, that this issue CAN be rectified. The goal: 95-100% of ALL learners become proficient readers. Systemic change takes time, energy, collective brainstorming and targeted action that, among other things, serves to penetrate the status quo mindset. You have unique and beneficial insights and talents to add to this mission. Let’s work together to cast a wider net to provide solutions to rectify the sub-literacy crisis in our country!