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This is Susan Lambert and welcome to Science of Reading the podcast.

For the third edition of our Summer Rewind series, we're reaching back to our first season

to feature a conversation all about response to intervention. What it is, we're reaching back to our first season to feature a conversation all about response

to intervention. What it is, where it originated, what strong implementation looks like, and much,

much more. Our guest is an expert on RTI, Dr. Nancy Nelson, formerly of the University of Oregon,

and now assistant professor of special education at Boston University. She's also co-lead of the University of Oregon and now assistant professor of special education at Boston

University. She's also co-lead of the National Center on Improving Literacy, which we discuss in

this episode. This is an important episode to revisit for the start of the school year. Nancy and I

cover a lot of ground, including the importance of using data to make decisions that support

students on all levels. Here's my conversation with Nancy. Nancy, welcome. Thank you so much for

joining us on today's episode. Thanks for having me. It's great to be here. Yeah, and you know,

we always like to start the podcast off by asking our guests to talk about their journey into early literacy and where you, you know, where you ended up, how you became interested in what you're doing now. Would you like to share a little bit of that with us?

Sure. Yeah, it's part of the path is linear,

but part of it is not. I, um, so out of college, I was a special education teacher in the

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