Helping Leaders Ensure They Choose Literacy Programs
That Work
With Evidence Based Research Education
Ensuring literacy materials are evidence-based is more critical now than ever.
According to national test scores, pandemic school breaks from 2020 have resulted in our nation's largest decrease in reading achievement in over 30 years. Poor reading ability in third grade is detrimental for overall future academic progress. It’s critical now more than ever to ensure we’re aiding our children with evidence based practices and tools for literacy effectiveness.
Solutions for
Literacy
While companies claim their products are research-based, they may not include evidence that proves viable long term effectiveness. It’s sometimes difficult for leaders to cut through the marketing “noise” and figure out what will work for our students.
Dr. Schetchers' keynotes offer solutions to leaders, educating on how to identify true evidence-based research products, so you choose products you know will work.
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Dr. Schetchers keynotes are designed to equip leaders with the necessary tools to ensure we make sure that our students are using evidence-based products that help them learn.
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With the ultimate goal of,
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Creating learning acceleration to make up for the lost time post Covid,
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Closing the literacy gap in kindergarten to change the trajectory of literacy throughout the student’s life,
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And remediating our nations current literacy concerns by helping leaders choose products that work.
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Dr. Schetchers' Key Note Topics
Dr. Schetcher's role is to create the bridge to educate leaders how to identify worthwhile curriculum and products to both create equity among our students and remediate our national literacy concerns.
Safeguard From These Three Main Pitfalls with Typical Product Research
Education leaders know that a teacher's time is their most precious resource. This talk will share how to avoid the three main pitfalls with typical product research, the intricacies of the current landscape, and an Evidence-Informed Decision-Making Framework that helps educators choose products that accelerate students' literacy scores and learning trajectories for our students of today.
Your Keys to Identifying True Evidence-Based K-3 Literacy Programs
Less than 5% of the curriculum available fails to meet the state ESSA requirements. This talk shares what evidence to look for to satisfy state requirements and what types of evidence to trust for long term reading acceleration? While also sharing how research determines that the product is working, and how compelling evidence depends on the rigor of the methodology and the sample size and other factors.
“Literacy equity helps level the playing field to have school be the public service and education that Americans deserve. It is vital for our nation."
Dr. Rachel Schetcher, Keynote Speaker
& Founder of LXD Research
Dr. Rachel Schetcher's Bio
Evidence based research innovation
Dr. Rachel Schetcher is a global keynote speaker, facilitator, and lead researcher, known for supporting Edtech leaders, school districts and educators, by cultivating a strong foundational knowledge for critically identifying valid evidence based research when choosing products to elevate literacy effectiveness.
In 2000, Rachel began her research career as an production assistant on the first and second seasons of Dora the Explorer, where she discovered how testing responses and measuring the efficacy of the lessons, improved learning experiences.
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She has a BA in Psychology from The University of Massachusetts, Master's in Education (EdM) in Arts-in-Education from Harvard University, and her Doctorate of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in child development from Tufts University.
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She was at the inception of evaluating technology-embedded assessments to discover learning outcomes for improving instructional training. She later became the Director of Research at Lexia Learning and led the user testing research and product development for the Lexia Reading Core5 literacy program, which thousands of schools still use.
Today she has her own consulting firm called, Learning Experience Design (LXD) Research, where Dr. Schechter partners with edtech companies around the globe to conduct rapid-cycle research evaluations that not only provide the evidence based efficacy research needed under the Every Student Succeeds Act law, but also informs the interactive improvement of products used by tens of millions of children worldwide.
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What others are saying
Katie Rondstadt
“Rachel’s innovative and research-based thinking led to the creation of new processes allowing content specialists to make data-driven decisions around the effectiveness of the program. Her work was critical to the success of Lexia Reading Core5 and Lexia PowerUp."
Amanda Strawhacker
"After a recent guest lecture that Dr. Schechter delivered to my graduate students in the Early Childhood Technology program, students couldn't stop talking about how inspiring they found her presentation on learning analytics research at Lexia. Her knowledge of research methods and evidence-based practice was so impressive, and they especially valued her understanding that "in education, every minute counts". If I could, I would love to have Dr. Schechter guest visit for all of my graduate courses!"
Brandon Diszewski, PHD
“Rachel served as a subject matter expert for ISTE’s Course of Mind project, helping us craft criteria – grounded in the learning sciences – for evaluating the quality of edtech products. Her multi-faceted background really was an asset, as she demonstrated a wonderful ability for balancing the practical needs of edtech decision-makers with what we know about learning sciences research.”