Launa Hall is a writer, traveler, and former primary school teacher with an MFA in creative writing and an M.Ed. in early childhood education. The best part of her teaching career, as well as the most challenging, was teaching reading to English language learning Kindergarteners at a Title I school. The tremendous gains her little students made when her school district pivoted to evidence-based reading instruction launched her on a quest to learn more about our phonetic writing system and the brain science behind how we learn to read.
Now, while she and her husband travel full time, she visits teachers and their classrooms globally, and she’s writing a book about how children are taught to read around the world. She has written on education topics for the Washington Post, and she writes on the traveling life at launaatlarge.substack.com and fieldtripnotebook.com .
In her guest blog series for Reading Rockets, she writes about what we can learn from our fellow educators’ struggles and successes in teaching children to read, and that our goal of literacy for every child is one we share with people all over the world.