Literacy Talks

Education Podcasts

Welcome to Literacy Talks, a podcast from Reading Horizons, where reading momentum begins. Each episode features our trio of literacy champions: Stacy Hurst, an assistant professor of reading at Southern Utah University and Chief Academic Advisor at...

Episodes

Episode 123: The “Overteaching Phonics” Debate—What Teachers Need to Know

Episode 122: From Awareness to Action: Lessons from Literacy Changemakers

Episode 121: Turning Awareness into Impact with Kareem Weaver

Episode 120: Too Many Reading Assessments? What to Keep—and What to Let Go

Episode 119: Screening to Catch Reading Problems Before They Grow

Episode 118: You Have the Data—Now What? How to Actually Use Reading Data in Your Classroom

Episode 117: What Your Reading Data Is Really Telling You

Episode 116: Plain Talk Rewind: Practical Insights for Powerful Literacy Instruction

Episode 115: Changing the System: The Story Behind The Reading League

Episode 114: Investing in People, Not Programs: A District’s Literacy Transformation

Episode 113: Literacy Improvement Moves at the Speed of Leadership

Episode 112: Comprehension Starts at the Sentence Level

Episode 111: Rethinking Literacy Through Community Collaboration

Episode 110: From Conversation to Collective Impact: Creating Change in Literacy

Literacy Wins and Wishes: 2025 Recap

Things We’ve Heard (That We Wish Weren’t True)

Rethinking AI Through a Literacy Lens: A Conversation with Viv Ramakrishnan

Inside Literacy: What Mattered Most at IDA 2025

Through the Eyes of Dyslexia: A Mother-Son Story

Reflections from the Reading League Conference 2025