Margie B. Gillis, Ed.D.

Dr. Margie B. Gillis, Ed.D., CALT, is the founder and president of Literacy How, Inc., a non-profit organization that provides professional learning opportunities and coaching for educators on how best to implement evidence-based practices in the classroom. She has worked at the policy level through the Connecticut State Department of Education and has partnered with educators in other states to bring the research on reading and Structured Literacy into districts, schools and importantly, classrooms across all tiers of instruction. She is an advisor for ReadWorks, Understood, and the International Foundation for Effective Reading Instruction and is on the Editorial Board of IDA, Perspectives and The Reading League Journal. Margie believes that learning to read is a civil right and that all children can learn to read and benefit from evidence-based instruction.