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Immersive Audio And Reading with Benjamin Strouse
About This Episode Dr. Erin Bailey talks with Benjamin Strouse, award-winning children’s author and co-founder of GZM Shows, about the power of immersive audio storyte...
Reading Inspires! with Dr. Geoffrey Borman
About This Episode Dr. Erin Bailey talks with Dr. Geoffrey D. Borman, Alice Wiley Snell Endowed Professor at Arizona State University, about what happens when children...
Reading Inspires! with Eric Litwin (Pete the Cat)
About This Episode What happens when reading becomes joyful, musical, and deeply interactive? In this episode of Reading Inspires, Dr. Erin Bailey talks with Eric Litw...
Kate DiCamillo and Kelly Yang on the Stories That Help Children Find Their Voice
Summary Kate DiCamillo and Kelly Yang are two of the most beloved and influential voices in children's literature. In this episode of Reading Inspires, they talk about...
Growing Up Bilingual: Grace Bastidas on Books, Culture, and Raising Connected Readers
Summary Grace Bastidas joins Reading Inspires to talk about the stories, books, and cultural traditions that shaped her as a reader—and how she is passing those gifts ...
From Rocket City to the Artemis Generation: Lane Polak on Making NASA's Story Matter
Summary What does it take to help children see themselves in the story of space exploration? Lane Polak, a technical writer and strategic communications professional f...
Building a Culture of Reading: Denine Torr and Alicia Levi on Literacy Access
Summary Erin Bailey talks with Denine Torr of the Dollar General Literacy Foundation and Alicia Levi of Reading Is Fundamental about why literacy access is a community...
Life Really Socks: How Two Cousins Turned Mismatched Socks into Stories of Belonging
Summary What happens when two cousins turn a drawer full of lost socks into a graphic-story universe? Erin Bailey talks with Shidan and Roshan Youssefian, creators of ...
Read, Lead, Succeed with Abby Quammen Conrad
Dr. Erin Bailey sits down with Abby Quammen Conrad, former Miss New York 2024, to discuss her lifelong passion for children's literacy. Abby shares how books became a ...
Rethinking Kids' Media Habits with Dr. Tiffany Munzer
Dr. Erin Bailey talks with Dr. Tiffany Munzer, a developmental behavioral pediatrician and digital media researcher at the University of Michigan, about screen time an...
Lighting the Way to Reading Joy with Rina Madhani
In this episode, Dr. Erin Bailey speaks with Rina Madhani, co-founder of Start Lighthouse, about transforming underutilized school libraries into vibrant literacy hubs...
Building Confident Readers Through High Quality Decodables with Christine Hjorth, Cherish Mims & Letitia Truslow
In this episode, Dr. Erin Bailey hosts Christine Hjorth (author of the Aligned Decodables and CEO of Aligned Educational Resources), Cherish Mims (Epic's Manager of Ed...
Reclaiming, Reading, and Living the Story with Dr. Valarie Lee, Dr. Marjorie Madden & Dr. Susan Browne
In this episode, host Erin Bailey sits down with Dr. Valerie Lee, Dr. Marjorie Madden, and Dr. Susan Browne — longtime colleagues and co-authors from Rowan University ...
Toddlers Can Read with Spencer Russell
In this episode, host Dr. Erin Bailey sits down with Spencer Russell, founder of Toddlers Can Read, to discuss his journey from a struggling reader to a literacy advoc...
Race to Kindness with Orion Jean
At just 15, Orion Jean — TIME's 2021 Kid of the Year and founder of Race to Kindness — joins Dr. Erin Bailey to discuss how a fourth-grade kindness speech contest spar...
Why Comics Belong in Every Classroom with Shannon Live
In this episode, host Dr. Erin Bailey sits down with Shannon Live, founder of Bat City Comics, at Comic-Con to explore how comics and graphic novels can transform lite...
Authentic Disability Representation in Children's Books with Jenna Elyse Johnson
In this episode of Reading Inspires, host Dr. Erin Bailey talks with author, educator, and bookseller Jenna Elyse Johnson about writing authentic disability representa...
Artfully Teaching Reading with Project-based Learning with Dr. Chase Young, Dr. Seth Parsons & Dr. Allison Ward Parsons
In this episode, Dr. Erin Bailey is joined by three literacy educators and co-authors — Dr. Chase Young (Sam Houston State University), Dr. Seth Parsons, and Dr. Allis...
The Power of Story with Mary Pope Osborne
In this episode, Dr. Erin Bailey sits down with Mary Pope Osborne — author of the beloved Magic Tree House series — to explore how a life of adventure, imagination, an...
Building Young STEM Readers with Jay Flores
In this episode, Dr. Erin Bailey sits down with Jay Flores — engineer, author, and upcoming American Ninja Warrior competitor — to explore the powerful intersection of...