Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured Rebecca Kockler, Founder at Magpie Literacy; Nick Gaehde, President at Lexia; Kelly Butler, Senior Advisor at ReadingUniverse.org; Dr. Miatheresa Pate, Chief Academic Officer at New York City Public Schools; and Brooke Stafford-Brizard, Senior Vice President for Innovation and Impact at the Carnegie Foundation.
The speakers explored how, over the past decade, the Science of Reading had driven important progress in early literacy by reshaping instruction, curriculum, and professional learning across the country. While many districts were seeing real early gains, they examined a harder question coming into focus: why those gains so often faded as students moved through later grades, and how literacy growth could endure over time.
