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literacyworldwide.org | July/August/September 2022 | LITERACY TODAY
ILA congratulates the newly elected members of the ILA Board of Directors, including our
new vice president, Kia Brown-Dudley. Dudley, the director of Programs and Partnerships
for The Education Partners, has served on the Board as a member-at-large since 2019.
An ILA member since 2003, Dudley began her career as a teacher in the New York City
Department of Education. Through her position with The Education Partners, she works
with educators and leading organizations to create and deliver transformational curricula
and professional learning opportunities to improve student outcomes in literacy and early
childhood education.
Our three new Board members-at-large for the 2022–2025 term are
Sue Corbin, professor and chair of the Division of Professional Education, Notre Dame
College, Ohio
Rebecca Silverman, associate professor of early literacy, Stanford Graduate School of
Education, California
Jeanette Toomer, 12th-grade English language arts teacher, Dr. Richard Izquierdo
Health & Science Charter School, New York
To learn more about our newly elected leaders, visit literacyworldwide.org/vote.
New Board Members Announced
LIT BITS
ILA Summer Learning Series
For a limited time, you can catch up on what you missed
or rewatch and relearn from our most popular ILA Digital
Events. You’ll need to hurry—these recordings go back into
the vault on September 15, 2022. Visit literacyworldwide.org/
digitalevents for more information.
Early Reading Difficulties: Improving Outcomes
for All Students with Marjorie Y. Lipson, Victoria J.
Risko, and Jeanne R. Paratore
Instructional Level or Challenging Text: Too Hard or Not
Hard Enough? with Timothy Shanahan
Making a Case for Reading Joy with Donalyn Miller
Making Sense of the Science of Reading with P. David Pearson, Nicole Patton Terry, Timothy
Shanahan, Timothy Rasinski, Kymyona Burk, Gina Cervetti, and Jimmy Kim
The Science of Reading Comprehension with Nell K. Duke
Using Research to Accelerate Decoding and Letter Instruction with Heidi Anne Mesmer
Brown-Dudley
Corbin
Silverman
Toomer