Advocacy
We are strong advocates for students, parents, educators, and policymakers on the necessity of improving literacy in our city, state, nation, and across the world. We emphasize providing comprehensive research-based literacy education early to all students and adults who struggle with literacy which is essential to increasing our city, state, nation, and world's educational outcomes.
Equally important is providing educators extensive, rigorous, and multidisciplinary training in the knowledge and practice of teaching the "3 R's."
After founding Alaskan organizations and working on legislation to assist in the vision, it is now time to provide the teachers with "feet on the ground" training and interventions to remediate underserved children. At this time we, are working on two projects we hope will be open in the next year.
Military Families
We are very concerned that Military families in Alaska do not get the help they need for their children. When CTWLLC receives a military parent's request for information about reading or dyslexia support we direct them to our local chapter of Decoding Dyslexia Alaska. This is one way of supporting military families who relocate outside of Alaska. Decoding Dyslexia is connected across all 50 States and territories and in most English-speaking countries. Because of networking, Decoding Dyslexia Alaska will reach out to specific parent members of Decoding Dyslexia so that the Alaskan military family has knowledgeable contact in any State the family may move to.
Our outreach programs are under development. In the meantime, we have compiled a resource page to help parents and teachers learn cutting-edge reading science now.
Posie is the founding president of the Alaska Branch of the International Dyslexia Association, Decoding Dyslexia Alaska, and The Alaska Reading Coalition. She uses every opportunity available to communicate research about dyslexia and reading development. This provides a critical base of knowledge to teachers in all aspects of literacy acquisition and instruction. Collaboration beyond all boundaries is the theme of our advocacy.