Reading Instruction based on Science and Evidence (RISE): A Speaker Series designed to help educators and others understand and implement the Ontario Right-to-Read recommendations.

Nadine Gaab is an associate professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her work focuses on typical/atypical learning trajectories from infancy to adolescence with an emphasis on language/reading development within a learning disabilities framework. Her work is at the intersection of neuroscience, psychology, learning sciences, EdTech, and policy. She is the 2024 awardee of the Translation Award from the International Society of Mind, Brain, and Education and the 2023 recipient of the Academic Research Recognition Award from the World Literacy Foundation. Furthermore, she received the Learning Disabilities Association America Award in 2019 and has received the Norman Geschwind Memorial Lecture in 2020, and the Alice Garside Award in 2017 from the International Dyslexia Association. Furthermore, she is the founder of EarlyBird Education, an edtech platform for the early identification of children at risk for language-based learning disabilities with an integrated professional development platform for teachers.

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