49th Annual Spring Symposium with Jessica Toste, Ph.D.

Appropriate for grades two and up.

About Dr. Jessica Toste:

Jessica R. Toste is an Associate Professor in the Department of Special Education at The University of Texas (UT) at Austin. She holds research affiliations with the Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk and Texas Center for Equity Promotion; and is a fellow with the IES-funded Research Institute for Implementation Science in Education (RIISE). Her research is focused on methods for intensifying intervention for students with persistent reading challenges and reading disabilities, and she is principal investigator on research grants from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She is associate editor for the Journal of Learning Disabilities, Past President of CEC’s Division for Learning Disabilities, and President-Elect for CEC’s Division for Research. Dr. Toste is an award-winning teacher; she was the recipient of a 2023 President’s Associates Graduate Teaching Excellence Award, 2022 Dean’s Distinguished Teaching Award, and was named one of the 2017 “Texas 10” professors at UT Austin.

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Attendees will earn 6 KPS-Aligned PD Hours for maintaining their CEUs for The Center for Effective Reading Instruction. CERI requires educators to complete 10 clock hours of continuing education or 1.0 CEU's annually to support certification renewal.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The University of Portland, Bauccio Commons, 5000 N. Willamette Blvd., Portland, United States