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Literacy expert and co-founder of Wilson Language Training®, Barbara Wilson, joins Drexel University’s School of Education to explore how structured literacy can unlock reading success. She will identify and dispel myths about structured literacy and explore how it fits within the science of reading. Teachers, practitioners, reading interventionists, school administrators, and others can benefit from Barbara Wilson’s decades of insight using a science-backed approach to literacy. This free webinar builds on the School of Education’s Science of Reading Day 2024, although everyone is welcome to attend.

Act 48 credit and Wilson Professional Learning Credits are available to those who attend.

About Barbara Wilson

Barbara A. Wilson, M.Ed. is Co-Founder of Wilson Language Training® (WLT). For 35+ years, she’s brought Structured Literacy to educators through consultation to organizations focused on reading, professional learning work of WLT, and a dedication to implementation science. She authored three Structured Literacy programs—Wilson Reading System®, Just Words®, and Fundations® and has written articles, books, and chapters about teaching students to read based on the science of reading. She developed graduate courses with clinical practicums accredited by the International Dyslexia Association (IDA). Barbara testified in front of Congress for the READ Act. In 2022, she was recipient of IDA’s annual Margaret Byrd Rawson Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2024, Barbara was named as an IDA Legacy Honoree, the highest honor that IDA bestows and was awarded to Barbara Wilson as one of the original developers of the Knowledge and Practice Standards (KPS) that have set a new benchmark for excellence in reading instruction. Barbara has been an ongoing contributor to IDA’s work including as co-editor of the organization’s 75th Anniversary edition of Perspectives on Language and Literacy, with a focus on Structured Literacy.

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