Teaching, Reading and Learning: The Reading League Podcast- Episode 14: Interview w/Jan Hasbrouck

Teaching, Reading, and Learning: The TRL Podcast is focused on elevating important contributions to the educational community, with the goal of inspiring teachers, informing practice, and celebrating those people in the community who have influenced teaching and literacy to the betterment of children. The podcast features people whose life stories are simply compelling and rich in ways that are instructive to us all. The podcast focuses on literacy as we know it (reading and writing) but will also connect to other “literacies” that impact children’s learning; for example, emotional, physical, and social literacies as they apply to teachers and children.
Episode Description
Jan Hasbrouck is a well-known and respected researcher, teacher, and author, with a career dedicated to serving students. In this episode, you’ll learn about her beginnings and early influences as a teacher, how her work continues to evolve, and her commitment to remaining humble, curious and collaborative. This is a delightful conversation with a very generous educator whose work has positively impacted teachers and children everywhere.
Guest Biography
Dr. Jan Hasbrouck is a researcher, educational consultant, and author. She served as Executive Consultant to the Washington State Reading Initiative and as an advisor to the Texas Reading Initiative. Dr. Hasbrouck was a reading specialist and literacy coach for 15 years before teaching at the University of Oregon and later becoming a professor at Texas A&M University. Dr. Hasbrouck has provided educational consulting to individual schools across the United States as well as in Mexico, Peru, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, and Germany, helping teachers, specialists, and administrators design and implement effective assessment and instructional programs targeted to help low-performing readers.
Dr. Hasbrouck earned her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Oregon, and completed her Ph.D. at Texas A&M. Her research in areas of reading fluency, reading assessment, instructional coaching, and English Learners has been published in numerous professional books and journals. She is the author and coauthor of several books including “Conquering Dyslexia”, “Reading Fluency”, “Student-Focused Coaching” and “Educators as Physicians”, along with several assessment tools. In 2019 she helped found Read Washington, a 501(c3) nonprofit organization with the mission to “provide professional development opportunities, based on the science of reading, so every student becomes a skilled and confident reader.” She also enjoys volunteering at her grandson’s K-8 school in Seattle.
Further Resources by Jan Hasbrouck
Conquering Dyslexia: A Guide to Early Detection and Intervention for Teachers and Families
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Reading Fluency: Understand, Assess, Teach
www.benchmarkeducation.com/be...
Student-Focused Coaching; The Instructional Coach's Guide to Supporting Student Success through Teacher Collaboration
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Hasbrouck-Tindal 2017 ORF Norms
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Other resources mentioned:
Explicit Instruction by Anita Archer explicitinstruction.org/
“Ladder of Reading” by Nancy Young 6c25bd81-9ae3-46df-b84b-1b9a9...
Siegfried “Zig” Engleman www.amazon.com/Siegfried-Enge...
The ABCs of CBM by Hosp, Hosp, and Howell
www.guilford.com/books/The-AB...
The Right to Read Project righttoreadproject.com/
The Reading League’s Defining Movement www.whatisthescienceofreading...
Read WA readwa.org/
Jan’s Picks:
Quote:
“If the student hasn’t learned, the teacher hasn’t taught.” Zig Engleman
Books:
Little House on the Prairie books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Social Animal by Elliot Aronson
To learn more about this podcast go to: www.thereadingleague.org/teac...

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