How our district moved the needle on early literacy (and you can too)

Journalist Cheri Rae has focused on literacy and dyslexia for 15 years. From 2010-2016 she served as a dyslexia consultant for the Santa Barbara Unified School district where she led several outreach initiatives to inform and support the community. She established the innovative Parent Resource Center for the district that attracted nationwide attention for its proactive approach. A longtime advocate of structured literacy, she served on the district’s Early Literacy Task Force in 2021-2022 and 2022-2023. She is the Director of The Dyslexia Project nonprofit and the author of DyslexiaLand: A Field Guide for Parents of Children with Dyslexia.