Reading & Learning Clinic - MB, Canada

05/30/2026

05/28/2026

Screening and Assessment information for parents and educators from the National Center on Improving Literacy (NCIL).

05/28/2026

The Adolescent Assessment of Literacy (AAL) is a free, computer-adaptive screening tool designed to measure reading and language skills that are critical for students’ overall literacy development.

05/28/2026

Please contact us for summer tutoring! We are booking now for daily 2 week intensives or flexible summer scheduling with our RLCC tutoring team!

All of our tutors have taken accredited OGA courses with Dr Björnson and we work as a collaborative intervention team.

Expert tutoring and student services specializing in dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia, with personalized programs and workshops in Canada. Enhance learning confidence today.

05/27/2026

05/25/2026

Teachers are not held to the high level of standards seen in other similar professions says Dr. Moats and Dr. Snow.

Society needs to look at the accountability standards to make sure educators know how to teach the children. Blind trust did not work out. Other licensed professions have a much higher standard of professionalism.

The USA, Australia and New Zealand are working to improve the job standards for teachers.

After all , the tax payers are funding the salary and benefits so they expect the teachers to know how to teach literacy/numeracy and keep up with their own learning beyond work training ( says New Zealand and Australia).

Society should be able to trust that the teachers license includes standards which prove they are up-to-date and have expertise to teach literacy and numeracy.

Society is counting on the people who are hired as teachers to have the skill and will to know how to learn beyond college and work training.

Meaningful and Consistent Professional
Standards Are Absent.

“ Other complex and demanding professions insist on much more stringent training and preparation than that required of teachers.

Pilots, engineers, optometrists, SLPs, and therapists, for example, must learn concepts, facts, and skills to a prescribed level, must conduct their practice under supervision, and must pass rigorous entry examinations that are standardized across the profession.

Continuing education to stay abreast of the most effective practices is mandated, not optional.

The public interest is protected by professional governing boards that monitor the knowledge base and oversee the competence of these licensed professionals.

We, the consumers of these
professional services, should be able to trust that any person holding a license has demonstrated competence and is accountable to their professional board of governance.

Dr. Moats

https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/moats.pdf

The school staff are getting step pay increases, cost of living allowances , health care work benefits and some lifetime benefits paid for by taxpayers.

Go here to see what your state is doing to increase accountability and create positive changes :

https://www.stateofdyslexia.org/

https://solar.blogs.latrobe.edu.au/

The children deserve to be taught literacy and numeracy so they can get jobs with benefits too.

https://www.ed.gov/about/ed-overview/federal-role-in-education

https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/commentary/bold-state-move-improve-reading

Many agencies and advocacy groups are working to improve teacher prep, teacher licensure and standards of accountability which society counts on for the well-being of the children.

DecodingDyslexia.Net

The Reading League
Cox Campus
International Dyslexia Association
WPS - Western Psychological Services
Parents for Reading Justice
Landmark School
MissPurcell
Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates, Inc.
Wrightslaw
Sold a Story
Federation for Children with Special Needs
John Corcoran Foundation
Margaret Byrd Rawson Institute
Decoding Dyslexia TN

https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2017R1/Downloads/CommitteeMeetingDocument/113712

This substack from Dr. Doug Carnine, What Education Can Learn from Trusted Professions, is certain to be a seminal text that every educator and school leader should return to as a guiding force in moving education toward a trusted profession.

Read the substack here: https://douglascarnine.substack.com/p/what-education-can-learn-from-trusted

Key resource. Accountability. Licensure standards. Expertise. Tax payers are funding salary and benefits with these expectations.

05/24/2026

Circa 1996, a teenage Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden sat in a classroom at Enskilda Gymnasium in Stockholm, arriving before her classmates every single morning, not because she was eager or energetic, but because she had to. She had dyslexia. Reading aloud in class was not something she dreaded quietly and privately. Her classmates laughed. They made fun of her stumbling over words, and she internalized it the way most kids do, deciding the problem was her, deciding she was slow, deciding she was stupid. She has said so herself, in her own words, at a bullying conference at the University of Orebro in 2002, where she stood before an audience and spoke openly and without a prepared script about what those years had felt like. The spontaneity of that speech struck people. She had not planned to share those details. She just did, because she thought it might help someone in the room. Her father, King Carl XVI Gustaf, has dyslexia too, and so does her brother Prince Carl Philip, so the condition was not unfamiliar inside the palace walls. Her mother, Queen Silvia, recognized the signs early and hired a specialist teacher to help her daughter work through the particular way her brain processed written language. Victoria arrived at school an hour before her peers, worked harder than anyone could see from the outside, and graduated in June 1996 with top grades. That outcome was not a gift. It was a result. She earned it, one early morning at a time, in a school building that did not always feel like a safe place. Years later, after the anorexia recovery, after Yale, after everything, she continued to speak publicly about dyslexia because she understood that her platform came with a responsibility to use it honestly. She said once that many people had not received the support she had, and she was right, and she seemed to carry that awareness without vanity. The girl who thought she was stupid became the woman who used her voice to tell other kids they were not. That is a kind of transformation that does not show up in official royal biographies, but it is the most human one.

05/20/2026

📚 Should we teach “phonics first” in the primary grades? Literacy expert Tim Shanahan explores why focusing only on decoding—even when Scarborough’s Reading Rope is centre stage—can tip the balance in reading instruction.

Discover why both word recognition AND language comprehension need to be woven together for student success. Get practical insights from the Science of Reading!

Read full article herehttps://www.nomanis.com.au/hubfs/Nomanis%20Edition%2020/Issue20_Article1_Shanahan.pdf