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Her work has won numerous honors including a duPont-Columbia University Award and the Excellence in Media Reporting on Education Research Award from the American Educational Research Association. Emily is a member of the Education Writers Association’s Journalist Advisory Board and was a longtime mentor for EWA’s “new to the beat” program. For the past several years, Emily has been reporting on early reading instruction. Her 2018 podcast episode “Hard Words: Why aren’t kids being taught to read?” won the inaugural public service award from EWA. You can find all of her reporting on reading at apmreports.org/reading, including her new podcast, Sold a Story: How teaching kids to read went so wrong (soldastory.org). Emily is based in the Washington, D.C. area.

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Emily Baker MA
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In her free time, she enjoys reading autobiographies/biographies and historical fiction; watching true crime documentaries; spending time with her daughter. Ms. Coonsis loves sending and receiving snail mail postcards and collecting pens.


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Marci Houseman MSA
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Marci’s study of Abraham Lincoln has had a significant impact on her core beliefs for leadership. She seeks to emulate five of his leadership traits: courage, integrity, empathy, creativity and equity. She integrates these core beliefs within her professional specialties. These specialties include developing and delivering effective professional learning, providing targeted and impactful coaching, engaging in personalized leadership development and collaborating with teams to foster high-functioning professional learning communities.
As a connected educator, Marci regularly engages in essential conversations on literacy and educational leadership with a variety of thought leaders via Twitter. She believes leaders are readers and readers are leaders and is perpetually on the lookout for the next book to add to her professional library. She invites Alaskan educators to find her on Twitter and share their book recommendations!

Jerusha Ignacio
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Joel Isaak MFA
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Susan Lambert M.Ed.
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Allison Layland PhD
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Lucy Hart Paulson Ed. D
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Tolson has a PhD in Curriculum & Instruction from the University of Akron and is a member of Academic Therapy Association at the level of Qualified Instructor and Certified Academic Language Therapist and a Certified Dyslexia Therapist through the International Dyslexia Association.
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Tolson is an instructor in the Masters of Dyslexia Therapy program at Walsh University.

Jackie Wood EDD