[Updated: Mon., Jan. 29, 2024, 4:30pm]
If there’s anything about literacy instruction that everyone can agree on, it’s that teachers are everything. They are the be-all and end-all of classroom success.
However, they are often left to fill in the blanks when it comes to teaching reading — something two-thirds of children in the United States struggle to learn. In Santa Barbara County, 60 percent of students, approximately 42,000 children, are not reading at grade level.