HOPEVILLE: The Movie & Panel Discussion – Hope in Georgia

Schedule
6:00 – 6:30 pm: Check in in the atrium. Pick up information about free resources for families and educators and explore the assistive technology tables.

Meet representatives from our non-profit event partners: 

International Dyslexia Association GA (IDA-GA)

Decoding Dyslexia Georgia (DDGA)

Georgia Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled (GLS)

Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)

Rollins Center / Cox Campus

The Reading League Georgia (TRL-GA)

Parent to Parent of Georgia (P2P-GA)

GeorgiaCAN

Boys and Girls Club of Metro Atlanta

Others (Stay tuned while we confirm!)

6:30 pm-8:30 pm: Movie followed by Panel Discussion moderated by Harvey Hubbel

The Movie: Harvey Hubbell V is a casualty of “The Reading Wars.” As a child with dyslexia, he struggled in school, where he wasn’t taught using evidence-based literacy practices. As an adult, he discovered a growing body of research—known as the Science of Reading—that explains how the brain learns to read and what teaching methods are most effective. This discovery sparked his quest to change how literacy is taught in schools. To explore how this research translates into classroom practice, he spends a year with a class of diverse first graders and their teachers in Waterbury, CT, capturing the challenging and inspiring process of learning to read. The students work tirelessly to prepare for an end-of-year test that determines whether they will move on to second grade.

Stay tuned for more event details.
Know Before You Go information available HERE. 

Resources:
Hopeville Advocacy Toolkit