Ep.16 | Literacy and Teacher Prep with Dr. Simone Gibson, Dr. Angelique Jessup & Heather Carney

Black and Dyslexic

Join Winifred A. Winston with Dr. Simone Gibson, her academic lead on the Dyslexia Awareness campaign via MorganCARES and Morgan State University. They are joined by Dr. Angelique Jessup, and Heather Carney to discuss their collaboration around teacher prep in higher education, parent advocacy, and how they’re connecting with the local school district in Baltimore City, Maryland to reshape literacy in the schools and community.

Here’s a breakdown of what to expect in this episode:

• When your alumni tell you they don’t feel prepared to teach reading
• Why it’s a must HBCU’s candidates understand the science of reading
• We can’t keep using old outdated practices to teach the 30% who would learn how to read anyway
• When parents and teachers collaborate.
• News flash! Teachers don’t know it all, but all teachers should understand how to teach reading.
• And so much more!

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About our Collaboration with MorganCARES…

Morgan CARES is a hub for community and academic leaders to connect and form long-lasting partnerships and collaborations to improve community health in Baltimore City! Dyslexia may not be a mental illness, but the results of its reality can trigger mental illness. Some of the characteristics of dyslexia are a lot like mental illness: self-esteem issues, temper impulses, phobias, strange reactions to external stimuli, obsessions, and mood dysfunctions. Since, Morgan CARES deeply about integrating community needs and perspectives into all stages of research. By working together with Dyslexia Advocation, Inc., we launched the Black and Dyslexic podcast to spread awareness about dyslexia to Black parents of children in elementary schools (grade kindergarten – 5th grade) who attend Baltimore City Public Schools as a member of the Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR).

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You can find more about Morgan State University on . . .

MorganCARES - https://www2.morgan.edu/morgancares

Morgan State University - Department of Teacher Education and Professional Development https://www.morgan.edu/seus/tepd

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Connect with Winifred!

Website: https://www.soallcanread.org/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/soallcanread

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soallcanread/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/soallcanread/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/soallcanread

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Connect with LeDerick!

Website: https://lederick.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lederickh/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lederickhorne/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lederickhorne

Twitter: https://twitter.com/lederick?lang=en

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Resources mentioned during this episode:

Purposeful Literacy

https://literatebecause.com/

The Odyssey School

https://www.theodysseyschool.org

Wilson Reading and Spelling

https://www.wilsonlanguage.com/

Wilson one-pager with all programs

https://www.wilsonlanguage.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Wilson-Implementation-Models.pdf
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Dibels

https://dibels.uoregon.edu/

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THIS PROJECT IS FUNDED BY MORGAN CARES AND THE CENTER FOR URBAN HEALTH DISPARITIES RESEARCH AND INNOVATION AWARDED BY THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES (NIMHD 1U54MD013376-01A1)