PAL's Learning Community Kickoff Session for Instructional Materials Development with Dr. Alfred Tatum, Professor in the School of Education at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Dr. Tatum shared an overview of his research study Foundational Skills and Foundational Texts: A Focus on Black Adolescent Males in the United States. Along with an overview of the study’s findings, Dr. Tatum discussed the study's implications for selecting instructional materials and strategies while working with striving adolescent readers.

During the PAL Learning Community Session on Monday, June 16 we were joined by Rebecca Sutherland, Associate Director of Research at the Advanced Education Research and Development Fund (AERDF), who shared an overview of the new decoding threshold study Replicating Decoding Threshold in ReadBasix: Impact on Reading Skills Development. Along with an overview of the study’s findings, Rebecca discussed the assessment used in the study and the study’s implications for adolescent

Join us as we share our analysis of the survey results, suggest insights of what the results of the survey alongside our focus groups may indicate about adolescent literacy work nationwide, and present a timeline of the next steps of our work and ways to stay involved.