Dr. Rachael Slaughter talks literacy - The Midday Break Room w/ Tiffany Bacon - 3.31.26

Dr. Rachel Slaughter is a literacy expert and veteran educator with over 30 years of experience, helps educators use multicultural literature with rigor and intention to boost reading comprehension, critical thinking, and student engagement. Her work shows that when students see themselves in texts and teachers know how to teach those texts well, reading confidence and achievement rise across subjects. Dr. Slaughter joins the show totalk about how reading confidence and teens rise when the students see themselves represented in texts, and when teachers know how to teach the texts well.