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Hosted by Storyshares · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 10 episodes
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The Adolescent Literacy Podcast brings together educators, researchers, and literacy leaders to explore what it really takes to transform reading outcomes for older students — diving into the evidence, the practice, and the people driving change.Want to connect? Reach out to melanie@storyshares.org
Storyshares hosts The Adolescent Literacy Podcast, a education show with 10 episodes published.

We're off this week, but Melanie pops in to say hello and give a quick book recommendation. Hope everyone is getting a moment to rest and recharge! See you next week.

We're off this week, but Melanie pops in to say hello and give a quick book recommendation. Hope everyone is getting a moment to rest and recharge! See you next week.

"Schools were not built to optimize learning." This week, Michael Horn, creator of podcast and Substack The Future of Education, joins us to unpack what it would take to rethink education for the students actually sittin

"Schools were not built to optimize learning." This week, Michael Horn, creator of podcast and Substack The Future of Education , joins us to unpack what it would take to rethink education for the students actually sitti

What does a student's day actually feel like when everything around them is disconnected? Different teachers, different routines, different language, different expectations — class after class after class. For older stri

What does a student's day actually feel like when everything around them is disconnected? Different teachers, different routines, different language, different expectations — class after class after class. For older stri

What if the time students are already spending on screens isn't the enemy of literacy — but the opportunity? This week, we sit down with Julia Rivard, founder of Shoelace Learning, to talk about what it really looks like

Literacy improvement can't rest on the shoulders of a single teacher. So what does it actually look like to make secondary literacy a shared responsibility across an entire school or district? This week, Emily Russin fro

We throw around the phrase "research-based" a lot in education — but is it actually enough? This week, Dr. Mary Schreuder from The Achievement Network (ANet) joins us to unpack the difference between research-based and e

There's a growing narrative in education that adapting text for struggling readers means lowering the bar. This week, we're pushing back on that — hard. We sat down with Ethan Pierce from Adaptive Reader to unpack what a

In this episode, we dive in to what it takes to build a true literacy ecosystem in middle and high school. Melanie McDermott and Louise Baigelman sit down with Dr. Sarah Holbrook, Director of Humanities in Kingston City

What would it look like if we truly went all in on adolescent literacy? What if grades 3–12 received the same time, resources, and investment we've dedicated to K–3? In Episode 2, host Melanie McDermott sits down with ad

Seventy percent of 8th graders in this country are not reading on grade level. It's a statistic that should stop us in our tracks — and yet, for too long, it hasn't. In our inaugural episode, we sit down with adolescent
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