To learn more about PSB School Committee, stay up to date about meetings, and find contact information to make your voice heard, please visit this page. 

Recordings of meetings and slides of presentations can be found on the meeting materials page. The recordings are posted very soon after the meeting takes place.

Brookine Interactive Group also livestreams the main SC meetings and has a playlist with all recordings  (There may be more of a lag between when the meeting takes place and when it’s posted on the BIG page)

The following literacy-related resources are ones that we recommend for both parents and educators. We have noted resources that are particularly accessible and helpful for parents.

• Emily Hanford is an education journalist who also happens to be a Brookline native and graduate of the Public Schools of Brookline. Since 2017, she and her team at American Public Media have been doing ground-breaking, award-winning work on the topic of reading. You can find links to all the audiodocumentaries, including the Sold a Story podcast, as well as articles here. https://features.apmreports.org/reading/

  Emily has also compiled a useful reading list: https://www.apmreports.org/story/2022/10/20/science-of-reading-list

• Season 3 of the Amplify Science of Reading Podcast included several episodes (episodes 1,2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 13) titled “Deconstructing the Rope”. Each episode focuses on a different “strand” of reading. Together, they serve as a helpful overview of each of these components of reading
  https://amplify.com/episode/science-of-reading-the-podcast/season-3/episode-3-deconstructing-the-rope-an-introduction-with-dr-jane-oakhill/
• Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons is a perennial classic that parents can use to launch their young children into reading (one of our founders, Ben Kelley, used it with his own daughter!)
  https://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Child-Read-Lessons/dp/0671631985
• Help Your Child to Read and Write, a free Sounds-Write Udemy Course. This is a top recommendation from one of our founders, reading specialist, Miriam Fein. An introduction to a highly effective method with useful video demonstrations and resources for teaching the initial stages of learning to read 
  https://www.udemy.com/user/54e5c34e6b89b/
• Why Our Children Can’t Read and What to Do about it by Diane McGuinness
  https://www.amazon.com/Children-Cant-Read-What-About/dp/0684853566

   

• A Parents’ Guide to Phonics by Ann Sullivan and Geoff Vaughn
  https://www.amazon.com/Parents-Guide-Phonics-Version-Understanding/dp/B0CCCPKC3V

   

• The Art and Science of Teaching Primary Reading
  By Christopher Such
  https://www.amazon.com/Science-Teaching-Primary-Reading-Corwin/dp/1529764165
• Thinking Reading: What every secondary teacher needs to know about reading by James and Diane Murphy
  https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Reading-Every-Secondary-Teacher/dp/1911382683

   

• The Reading Mind: A Cognitive Approach by Daniel Willingham
  https://www.amazon.com/Reading-Mind-Cognitive-Approach-Understanding/dp/1119301378/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=the+reading+mind&qid=1636599329&s=books&sr=1-3

   

• Robust Comprehension Instruction with Questioning the Author by Beck, Mckeowan and Sandora. This is particularly useful for educators and presents a detailed look at an effective method for fostering students’ understanding of what they read
  https://www.amazon.com/Robust-Comprehension-Instruction-Questioning-Author/dp/1462544797/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=questioning+the+author&qid=1636599234&s=books&sr=1-1

   

• Phonic Books website. A terrific catalog of engaging, well-designed phonically controlled or ‘decodable’ books for beginning readers and older readers with word-level difficulties. There are also many free resources and helpful blog posts that may be of interest to both teachers and parents
  https://www.phonicbooks.com/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=phonic_books&utm_content=homepage&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAibeuBhAAEiwAiXBoJNVk9lxC2bnSmxh-FpCn4QFfOQDacGEoyozfE6Y8RPfj4ZndWpUcxBoCqYQQAvD_BwE