Race to Kindness with Orion Jean
At just 15, Orion Jean — TIME's 2021 Kid of the Year and founder of Race to Kindness — joins Dr. Erin Bailey to discuss how a fourth-grade kindness speech contest sparked a movement that's grown into initiatives distributing toys, meals, and over 500,000 books. Orion shares the origins of his nonpr…
Toddlers Can Read with Spencer Russell
In this episode, host Dr. Erin Bailey sits down with Spencer Russell, founder of Toddlers Can Read, to discuss his journey from a struggling reader to a literacy advocate and educator. Spencer shares how his own challenges with reading as a child shaped his mission to empower parents as the most po…
Episode 31: The Joy of Reading Starts at Birth: How Reading Is Fundamental Is Building Lifelong Readers with Dr. Erin Bailey
In this inspiring episode of Plant the Seed of Learning, hosts Dr. Crystal Loose and Dr. Aimee Ketchum welcome Dr. Erin Bailey, Vice President of Literacy Programs and Research at Reading Is Fundamental (RIF), the nation's largest children's literacy nonprofit. Together, they explore why literacy d…
Reclaiming, Reading, and Living the Story with Dr. Valarie Lee, Dr. Marjorie Madden & Dr. Susan Browne
In this episode, host Erin Bailey sits down with Dr. Valerie Lee, Dr. Marjorie Madden, and Dr. Susan Browne — longtime colleagues and co-authors from Rowan University — to discuss their book Literary Life Histories: Reclaiming, Reading, and Living the Story. The three educators share how their RISP…
Building Confident Readers Through High Quality Decodables with Christine Hjorth, Cherish Mims & Letitia Truslow
In this episode, Dr. Erin Bailey hosts Christine Hjorth (author of the Aligned Decodables and CEO of Aligned Educational Resources), Cherish Mims (Epic's Manager of Education Relations), and Letitia Truslow (leads Epic School Plus) to discuss Epic's expansion of 250+ decodable books on its platform…
Lighting the Way to Reading Joy with Rina Madhani
In this episode, Dr. Erin Bailey speaks with Rina Madhani, co-founder of Start Lighthouse, about transforming underutilized school libraries into vibrant literacy hubs across New York City public schools. Rina shares how her time as a Bronx classroom teacher revealed deep inequities in access to bo…
ISTE 2026: Building a Reading Culture with Dr. Erin Bailey
In this episode, Jethro sits down with Dr. Erin Bailey, VP of Literacy Programs and Research at Reading Is Fundamental, to explore two exciting 2026 developments. Erin shares the growth of Skybrary, RIF's e-book app offering 1,000 read-to-me picture books, now with a free tier providing 100 books p…
Read, Lead, Succeed with Abby Quammen Conrad
Dr. Erin Bailey sits down with Abby Quammen Conrad, former Miss New York 2024, to discuss her lifelong passion for children's literacy. Abby shares how books became a source of stability after losing her home at age 12, and how that experience shaped her Read Lead Succeed initiative, through which …
Life Really Socks: How Two Cousins Turned Mismatched Socks into Stories of Belonging
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What happens when two cousins turn a drawer full of lost socks into a graphic-story universe? Erin Bailey talks with Shidan and Roshan Youssefian, creators of Life Really Socks, a playful book series about mismatched socks, friendship, individuality, and belonging.
Shidan and Roshan grew up…
Building a Culture of Reading: Denine Torr and Alicia Levi on Literacy Access
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Erin Bailey talks with Denine Torr of the Dollar General Literacy Foundation and Alicia Levi of Reading Is Fundamental about why literacy access is a community responsibility. They discuss the long partnership between Dollar General and RIF, the specific barriers facing rural communities, …
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