Magpie Literacy

I kicked off my #NewSchoolsSummit2025 experience yesterday with a round table discussion with CEOs about federal policy and funding. While there are many challenges, there are a lot of good partners out there trying to help states, districts, and schools figure out a path forward. I'm also thrilled to see so many former #Louisiana colleagues on the agenda (and on banners throughout Summit 📸 ). I'm looking forward to their sessions today: ✨ "Reading Scores are Falling. These Solutions Deliver" with Rebecca Kockler, founder of Magpie Literacy. ✨ "Inside Louisiana's Winning Strategy for Students with Disabilities" moderated by Kristi-Jo P. and featuring Dana Talley. ✨ "Can States Save Public Education?" moderated by Kunjan Narechania and featuring John White. I hope to see many of you at sessions and in-between. Please say hello 👋!

Magpie is at ASU+GSV in a big way this year! We are excited and honored to share our work and learnings from the last year with you all, starting with our very own Christine T. Bediones, Magpie’s School Partnerships Lead, who will be hosting a session titled “Weaving Instructional Precision and Technology Together” as part of The ASU+GSV AI Show. In this session, Christine will highlight the novel and effective ways in which we at Magpie bring together instructional precision and the best of technology. Join her on Sunday at 1:25 PM in Exhibit Hall F. #ASUGSVAIShow

🚨 HIRING 🚨 Magpie Literacy is looking for a Cloud Security Engineer for a 3-month contract. (US Remote Only) We’re on a mission to transform how children learn to read, and we’re looking for a security expert to help us ensure our infrastructure is secure, reliable, and scalable. 🔒 Role: Cloud Security Engineer 🕒 Type: 3-Month Contract 🌍 Remote Friendly Looking for someone who has AWS/Terraform experience. Message me or apply below! #CloudSecurity #CyberSecurityJobs #SecurityEngineer #ContractJobs #FreelanceTech #EdTechJobs #RemoteWork

Last week, Leo Bialis-White, our Chief Strategy Officer, was a panelist on a webinar, "Tech Meets Text: Accelerating the Science of Reading Adoption with EdTech." We explored how technology can help accelerate and deepen the adoption of the Science of Reading in elementary and middle school classrooms. We covered: ✅ Barriers to SoR adoption ✅ How edtech tools can embed evidence-based strategies ✅ Personalization with tech for larger classrooms ✅ Advice for educators and school/system leaders looking to integrate technology with the Science of Reading. Watch the recording here: https://lnkd.in/g-A3DpsY Thanks to The Learning Accelerator for hosting, Megan Benay, EdD for moderating, and our fellow panelists from Coursemojo, Magpie Literacy, Rock by Rock, and Teaching Lab for the insightful discussion. 💬📖

📚 Tech Meets Text: How can #edtech amplify the impact of the Science of Reading in today’s classrooms? 🌟 Join us for a webinar next Friday! We're diving deep into how digital tools can enhance literacy instruction and accelerate the adoption of evidence-based practices. Hear from experts at Magpie Literacy, Rock by Rock, Coursemojo, and Teaching Lab on how interactive resources can transform reading instruction in elementary and middle schools. 🗓️ Date: March 21, 2025 🕛 Time: 12:00 - 1:00 PM ET RSVP now for live access and a recording: https://loom.ly/cOF_83M #scienceofreading

Magpie Literacy is looking for a Head of Engineering to join our team! 📚 ✨ We are looking for a Head of Engineering to lead our software development efforts and build our early prototyping work to a complete PK-8 product that achieves scale, efficacy, and market success. This is an opportunity to join as a senior leader in a mission-driven organization, working to build a breakthrough reading solution that students love and that rapidly moves them to foundational literacy and reading fluency. You’ll bring technical leadership expertise, a deep commitment to equity in education, and the ability to manage through complexity while driving cross-functional collaboration with key partners across our product, growth, and academic & research teams. 📌 Remote US-Based | Full-Time Check out the job description below. Interested or know someone who might be a good fit? Feel free to share this application link. Come make an impact with us! 🌟 🌍  #HeadofEngineering #TechJobs #EdTech #RemoteWork #MagpieLiteracy #JoinUs

Thank you Accelerate for spotlighting our work!

⛽ The research emerging from our sister organization Reading Reimagined is fueling the development of our comprehensive literacy solution at Magpie Literacy. 💡 This latest research from Reading Reimagined's partner ETS sheds additional light on the decoding threshold. It helps us to understand what the decoding threshold means for instruction designed for older students and is another critical piece of the puzzle to ensure we build the right supports for students to help them become great readers. 📔

I was delighted to join RAND’s Anna Shapiro to discuss our recent survey of teachers in grades 3-8 with Faith Borkowsky and Judy Boksner on their Literacy View podcast! https://lnkd.in/gmjCsWhR https://lnkd.in/giMzjK78

🎧 Listen to Episode 98 of The Literacy View Podcast featuring Rebecca Sutherland and Anna Shapiro 🏫 Learn about the recently released RAND Report, funded by our sister organization Reading Reimagined (a program of Advanced Education Research and Development Fund (AERDF), What’s Missing from Teachers’ Toolkits to Support Student Reading in Grades 3-8?