E31 - Jessica Toste

Episode 31 of the Think Aloud with Dr. G. podcast, hosted by Dr. Lisa Goran, titled "E31 - Jessica Toste" was published on February 5, 2023 and runs 41 minutes.

February 5, 2023 ·41m · Think Aloud with Dr. G.

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Dr. Jessica Toste is an associate professor in the Department of Special Education at The University of Texas at Austin and a fellow of the Reading Institute within The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk. She is the current President of the Division for Learning Disabilities (DLD) of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC). Her research interests are related to intensive interventions for students with reading disabilities, with a particular focus on data-based decision-making processes and motivation. Dr. Toste was trained in reading intervention research as a postdoctoral fellow at Vanderbilt University (2011-2013) and as a Fulbright scholar/visiting researcher at the Florida Center for Reading Research (2008-2009). She has worked as an elementary school teacher and reading specialist in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Websites and clickable links:

Jess’s website: https://www.jessicatoste.com/

Instagram: www.instagram.com/tosteteam

Project EXPERT YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@project_expert

Jess’s faculty page: https://education.utexas.edu/faculty/jessica_toste

DLD’s website: https://www.teachingld.org/

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