Accelerating Literacy Learning

for Georgia

New ELA Standards – Assessment – Dyslexia Pilot Panel

Featured Speakers

Jennifer Serravallo

Jennifer Serravallo is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Reading Strategies Book and The Writing Strategies Book, which have been translated into Spanish, French, and Chinese. She is a frequently invited speaker at national and regional conferences and travels throughout the US and Canada to provide full-day workshops and to work with teachers and students in classrooms.

Jennifer began her career in education as an NYC public school teacher. Now as a consultant, she has spent the last fifteen+ years helping teachers across the country create literacy classrooms where students are joyfully engaged, and the instruction is meaningfully individualized to students' goals.

Jack Fletcher

Jack M. Fletcher, Ph.D., is a Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Houston. Dr. Fletcher, a board-certified child neuropsychologist, has conducted research on many issues related to dyslexia and other learning disabilities, including definition and classification, neurobiological correlates, and intervention. The author of 3 books and over 400 papers, Dr. Fletcher was the recipient of the Samuel T. Orton award from the International Dyslexia Association in 2003 and a co-recipient of the Albert J. Harris award from the International Reading Association in 2006.

LeDerick Horne

As a child, LeDerick Horne could not read or even recognize the alphabet. He was labeled “neurologically impaired” and placed in segregated special education classrooms. But despite his learning disability, LeDerick believed he had something to offer the world. Hear from LeDerick about his experience as a young African American with learning disabilities. Find out about his journey from special education to college and learn about the pivotal moment when he decided to become a poet and activist. His work addresses the challenges of all disabilities, uniting the efforts of diverse groups in order to achieve substantive, systemic change.