Toste Team

📈📊Data Management Monday! This month, we're focusing on an often-overlooked but critical piece of good data management: labels. Variable and value labels add context to your data — making it understandable to future you and your collaborators. Swipe for more!

Are you in Chicago for The Reading League Conference this week? Join Brennan and Jess on Friday morning to talk multisyllabic word reading and spelling. If you ♥ big words as much as we do, come hang out! 💬🤓

We're kicking off a new occasional series — Cool Education Resources Developed by Our Cool Friends! We want to spotlight the incredible work being conducted by our colleagues and feature some of the tools, resources, and programs that their teams have developed. Today, we're sharing VocabSupport, an AI-powered platform from Dr. Michael Kennedy's team at the University of Virginia. Check it out at https://vocabsupportai.com 🔎📝✨

Fabulous Saturday at the Houston IDA Fall Symposium! 🚀✨

Dr. Toste joined Dr. Kimberly Harrison and Dr. Tiffany Hogan to talk about supporting students with dyslexia — with an incredible community of educators, clinicians, and researchers in the room. Thank you, Houston Branch of the International Dyslexia Association! Dr. Toste's Word Connections implementation guide will also be freely available in the 2026 HBIDA Resource Directory. We will share the link when it's available! 💛📚

Good morning, Baltimore! We're at this week. Dr. Toste presented on a panel about DBI implementation with fabulous colleagues: Doug Fuchs, Kristen McMaster, Johanna Staubitz, and Vicki Weinberg. She also served as a discussant for a session on the active ingredients driving our reading and math interventions, with studies presented by Daniel Espinas and Peng Peng. Lovely week with smart, fun friends! 📝👩‍💼⚓

We hope the school year has started off well for you! Today, we're sharing some favorites — keeping us organized and energized for the new academic year. What's a back-to-school favorite you can't go without? Drop it in the comments! 🍎✏️

Call for CEC-DR Award Nominations!

Each year, CEC’s Division for Research (CEC-DR) recognizes outstanding contributions to special education research through six award categories:

⭐ Kaufman-Hallahan-Pullen Distinguished Researcher Award
⭐ Distinguished Researcher from Underrepresented Groups Award
⭐ Martin J. Kaufman Distinguished Early Career Research Award
⭐ Advancing Equity in Special Education Research Award
⭐ Lynn S. Fuchs Early Career Publication Award
⭐ Student Research Awards

Know a colleague, mentor, or student making an impact? Nominate them today! More details and link to the nomination form are available here: cecdr.org/cec-dr-awards

Deadline: November 1, 2026

Please share widely!

Dr. Toste spent this past week in Wichita presenting at the Kansas MTSS and Alignment Symposium! 1,000 educators attending from across the state and packed sessions to talk about multisyllabic word reading, self-determination, and Word Connections! 🌻👩🏻‍🏫📝

Publication Alert! 🚨 New article in The Reading League Journal, co-authored by Emily Hardeman and Brennan Chandler. This "Game Changers" column revisits Graham and Hebert's (2011) landmark meta-analysis on the reading-writing connection and unpacks what it means for classroom practice today. Swipe to learn more — and comment GAMECHANGERS to have the article sent straight to your inbox. 📝

Another resource to share today! The EXPERT Monitoring Tool lets you record, track, and evaluate students' intervention progress data — with graphs generated automatically and a built-in decision tree to guide your next steps. We've got 3 demo videos showing it in action. Linked in bio! 📈🌐