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Emily A. Farris @emilyafarris.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Enjoyed presenting about item-level analyses of Big Words at SSSR in Rotterdam with @jessicatoste.bsky.social and Devin Kearns.

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Jessica Toste @jessicatoste.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Hope to see folks at the Museum of Illusions on Thursday evening! 🥳

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CEC Division for Research (CEC-DR) @cec-dr.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Given her exceptional legacy of advancing research, producing influential scholarship, and nurturing new voices in the field, the CEC-DR recognizing outstanding early career publications will now carry the name of Dr. Lynn Fuchs.

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CEC Division for Research (CEC-DR) @cec-dr.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Congratulations to the 2026 CEC-DR Award Winners! 🎉 We look forward to honoring our award winners for their outstanding contributions to research and leadership in special education. Join us at the CEC-DR Business Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT on Thursday, March 12, 2026.

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Jessica Toste @jessicatoste.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

📌 "McMahon’s argument that no one would miss the Department of Education depends on several assumptions [...]. These assumptions do not align with the lived reality of American families."

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McMahon's education plan breaks the law and denies students' rights | Opinion

What Linda McMahon dismisses as 'micromanagement' is, in reality, the implementation of our nation's special education law.

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CEC Division for Research (CEC-DR) @cec-dr.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Each year, NCSER and CEC partner for research to practice symposium to discuss how federal research funding impacts local schools. This year’s session is about writing! Register Here: learn.exceptionalchildren.org/p/NCSER_writ...

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Jessica Toste @jessicatoste.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Our #IDARE team invites contributors who have existing datasets from reading intervention studies, specifically experimental studies of K-12 supplemental reading interventions!

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Jessica Toste @jessicatoste.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Nominations due on Saturday, November 15! ⬇️

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Jessica Toste @jessicatoste.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Don't miss out! Only a few days left to register for our upcoming #WordConnections webinar series.

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CEC Division for Research (CEC-DR) @cec-dr.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

ACTION ALERT: Department of Education has nearly wiped out OSERS—offices essential to ensuring students with disabilities receive the services they’re guaranteed under IDEA. Congress must act NOW. Tell lawmakers: Restore OSEP. Protect IDEA. #4SpecialEducation exceptionalchildren.org/lac?vvsrc=/C...

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Jessica Toste @jessicatoste.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Join us for our #WordConnections webinar series. We'll explore implementation of this research-based, targeted intervention to support students' reading of complex words! #TosteTeam #BigWords #ScienceOfReading 📅 Nov 13 + Dec 4 | 💻 Live Online 🔗 Register: tosteteam.simpletix.com

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Jessica Toste @jessicatoste.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

We did an adorable #TosteTeam photoshoot for our fall 2025 back to campus series. These folks are the best part of my job! 🤘🏼🧡

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Jessica Toste @jessicatoste.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Nominate your favorite special education researcher for a 2026 CEC-DR Award!

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Jessica Toste @jessicatoste.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

We’re hiring! Come work with us in the Department of Special Education at UT Austin. Scholar in special education or related fields, without restrictions on rank or specific research program. Apply here: faculty.utexas.edu/career/168004 #WhatStartsHere

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Jessica Toste @jessicatoste.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hell-hole it is

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Jessica Toste @jessicatoste.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

We want your thoughts on themes and topics that are of interest to the readership of The Reading League Journal and friends of @thereadingleague.org. Share your ideas below! 👇🏼

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Jessica Toste @jessicatoste.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION ALERT 🚨 Catch up on new #TosteTeam pubs! Jason Chow (@jchow.bsky.social) and I wrote this article for a special issue of Educational Psychologist. We highlight special education as a field that has prioritized the generation of scientific evidence to guide decision-making. 1/3

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Jessica Toste @jessicatoste.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Submissions for 2026 @aeraedresearch.bsky.social are due July 25! Join your colleagues and friends in Los Angeles in April 2026. To learn more and submit, visit: www.aera.net/Events-Meeti...

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Lorentz Center @lorentzcenter.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

This workshop focuses on how technology can be used to strengthen the connection between assessment data and instruction in education. bit.ly/4n3EbOE @jessicatoste.bsky.social

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Jessica Toste @jessicatoste.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

👇🏼 Tomorrow afternoon! Join us!

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Jessica Toste @jessicatoste.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

So cool! @planetworddc.bsky.social is THE BEST museum. I went there with our 4th grader in the fall and we loved it. We had only two hours to visit and could have stayed much longer. 🤓🔤

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Jessica Toste @jessicatoste.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

There is a corrected version of our article online today! This correction is thanks to a literacy specialist across the country who read the article and noticed an error. I'm so grateful for bright, engaged educators who make my work better! Open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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What’s in a Word? Analyzing Students’ Oral Reading Fluency to Inform Instructional Decision-Making - Jessica R. Toste, Sally K. Fluhler, Emily A. Farris, Brennan W. Chandler, 2025

Students with reading disabilities require instruction and intensive intervention targeted to their current learning needs. Through data-based instruction, educ...

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Jessica Toste @jessicatoste.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION ALERT 🚨 I’m behind in sharing new #TosteTeam pubs! New article in Learning Disability Quarterly. We report findings from brief experiment of the unique contribution of spelling practice, specifically Cover-Copy-Compare, on multisyllabic word reading for students with dyslexia. 1/3

Screenshot of article. Title: Investigating the Contribution of Spelling Practice to the Multisyllabic Word Reading Skills of Upper Elementary Students With Dyslexia

Authors: Jessica R. Toste, PhD, Nathan H. Clemens, PhD, Marissa J. Filderman, PhD, Brennan W. Chandler, PhD, Saashya Rodrigo, PhD, and Clinton Moore, PhD

Abstract: While spelling instruction may enhance reading interventions, there is little experimental evidence to date that examines the benefit of integrating spelling activities above and beyond explicit word reading instruction and practice alone. The study sought to investigate whether a common approach to spelling practice, cover-copy-compare (CCC), uniquely contributed to multisyllabic word reading skills of third to fifth grade students with dyslexia (n = 32). In this brief experiment, students completed two controlled individual sessions (30-min each). Each session included two instructional components and one practice component. The practice component differed by study condition, with students randomized to either reading practice (Decoding condition) or spelling practice using a modified CCC activity (Decoding+Spelling condition). No between-group differences were observed on researcher-developed or standardized word reading and pseudoword reading measures; however, a small but statistically significant effect favored students in the Decoding condition on a standardized measure of word reading efficiency. Findings suggest students in both conditions improved their reading of multisyllabic words, and there did not appear to be a differential benefit of spelling practice via CCC compared with reading practice. We discuss implications for future research on the contribution of spelling practice to word-level reading interventions for students with dyslexia.

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

URGENT ACTION FOR NSF GRANTEES. For current & recent (since 2020) awards, archive your award history this afternoon/tonight. Screenshot/download/print your work in research.gov & alert your partners. We have credible threats to integrity of awards tracking systems (via @jeremymberg.bsky.social)

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Research.gov - Homepage

Research.gov is a partnership of Federal, research-oriented grant making agencies with a shared vision of increasing customer service for applicants while streamlining and standardizing processes amon...

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Jessica Toste @jessicatoste.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I may be accepting ONE additional PhD student in fall 2025! Four-year funding package. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents for this funding opportunity. Must have an interest in intensive reading intervention. Reach out if interested! 📤 jrtoste@austin.utexas.edu

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Jennifer Stewart @jennestewart.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

We are incredibly excited to be hosting Dr. @jessicatoste.bsky.social at MTSU this summer for training on Word Connections!

Registration details for the Word Connections Training provided by Dr. Jessica Toste for Middle Tennessee State University. In-person training is two-day for $349 and a virtual one-day option for $199. Training will be June 5 & 6, 2025.

Image of Dr. Jessica Toste. Dr. Jessica 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. Her research is focused on methods for intensifying intervention for students with persistent reading challenges and reading disabilities, and she is principal investigator on grants from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES) and Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She is the Editor-in-Chief of The Reading League Journal (TRLJ), an associate editor for the Journal of Learning Disabilities, President of CEC’s Division for Research, and Past President of the Division for Learning Disabilities. Dr. Toste is an award-winning teacher. She was recently selected to join the UT Austin Academy of Distinguished Teachers. Additionally, she was the recipient of the 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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Jessica Toste @jessicatoste.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Joining forces with @thereadingleague.org as the new Editor-in-Chief of The Reading League Journal! I transitioned into the role in December, but the upcoming spring issue will make it officially official as the first issue under my editorship. Woohoo! #ItTakesALeague 🤓📝📚

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Noted reading scholar Jessica Toste, Ph.D., appointed editor-in-chief of The Reading League Journal

/PRNewswire/ -- The Reading League has named noted reading scholar Jessica Toste, Ph.D., its newest editor-in-chief of The Reading League Journal, the premier...

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Jessica Toste @jessicatoste.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I was recently informed that I am to be 1 of 5 faculty members inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Teachers at @utaustin.bsky.social. As a fun bonus, honorees are also given the title Distinguished Teaching Professor! 👩🏻‍🏫 More about the Academy: provost.utexas.edu/the-office/a...

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Jessica Toste @jessicatoste.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Reppin’ @cecmembership.bsky.social today in my extremely cozy new sweatshirt!

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Jessica Toste @jessicatoste.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Last week, my team launched our new #ResearchMatters series! Check out the #TosteTeam instagram for posts that highlight contributions from education sciences. How do data lead to critical decisions? How does research impact the world around us? Follow us here: www.instagram.com/tosteteam

News icon at top corner pointing to text that reads: Our new #ResearchMatters series will highlight how education sciences have contributed to the learning and lives of students with disabilitied. How does research matter? The word "does" is underlined and leads to next slide addressing this very question.

"Research generates data and evidence to drive progress, solve problems, expand knowledge, and help us understand the world, leading to advancements that improve lives. Did you know...? The Education for All Handicapped Children Act, later renamed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), was passed in 1975 due to data showing that millions of children with disabilities were excluded from education or receiving inadequate services, prompting a need for legal protections

These data were collected as part of a Congressional investigation in 1972 and revealed that 1.75 million children with disabilities were receiving no education; 200,000 were institutionalized; and an additional 2.5 million were receiving a substandard education"

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Jessica Toste @jessicatoste.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Join me and @brennanchandler.bsky.social for a webinar on May 15. We'll be talking about word reading instruction for students in intermediate grades and #WordConnections! Webinar hosted by @cecmembership.bsky.social and @cec-dr.bsky.social. Free for members! Register: tinyurl.com/CEC-WordReading

CEC and DR webinar. Logos for both Council for Exceptional Children and Divison for Research. "Instruction to support word-level reading skils for students with disabilities in the intermediate grades." Thursday, May 15 from 4:00-5:00pm ET. Free for CEC members.

Webinar presenters. Jessica Toste, PhD, Associate Professor & Distinguished Teaching Professor. Department of Special Education. The University of Texas at Austin. Brennan Chandler, PhD. Assistant Professor. Department of Learning Sciences. Georgia State University. Register at http://tinyurl.com/CEC-WordReading

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Jessica Toste @jessicatoste.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

‼️Exciting news from Department of Special Education at @universityoftexas.bsky.social. We're thrilled to announce our 🆕 ONLINE master's program focusing on dyslexia & dyscalculia intervention! Specialized training from experts in the field. RSVP for an upcoming info sessions: tinyurl.com/UTddiinfo

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Jessica Toste @jessicatoste.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I am trying to get Lady Gaga presale tickets. There are 20,748 people in the queue ahead of me and ticket prices range from $61.00-$1,950. Ticketmaster may be my villain origin story.

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Jessica Toste @jessicatoste.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

As President of @cec-dr.bsky.social, I am grateful for the opportunity to sign onto this letter and to AERA for coordinating these efforts!

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Jessica Toste @jessicatoste.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

🚨 Take action! See below 👇🏼

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Nelson Brunsting @brunnc3.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Join Council for Exceptional Children through March 31 for free! Many divisions may have free or discounted membership, too. For researchers and graduate students, consider joining CEC's Division for Research (see cecdr.org for all we do). Over 140 people joined the Division for Research yesterday!

CEC Membership graphic including text "At CEC, we believe in access to education that is inclusive and equitable for all."

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CEC Division for Research (CEC-DR) @cec-dr.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

From March 17–31, new members can join CEC for free! While you're at it, join CEC-Division Research for an incredibly reduced rate! Gain access to the resources, training, and community you need to support students, #4SpecialEducation research- Join: exceptionalchildren.org/membership/a...

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AERA @aeraedresearch.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...

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Jessica Toste @jessicatoste.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Tonight! See you there! 👇🏼

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CEC Division for Research (CEC-DR) @cec-dr.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

If you can’t be #CEC2025, here are a few ways that you take action today! Check out QR codes and we will post individual links in the thread below. #4SpecialEducation

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Jessica Toste @jessicatoste.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Take action and grab some stickers!

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Jessica Toste @jessicatoste.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

We have a great CEC-DR team! We’re also on Bluesky now. Come follow us there — @cec-dr.bsky.social

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Jessica Toste @jessicatoste.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Ready for a week of learning, planning, and advocating at #CEC2025! @cecmembership.bsky.social

Name badge for CEC 2025 Baltimore. Tags for Division for Learning Disabilities, Division for Research, and President. Pins on the lanyard for Toste Team and LGBTQ+ progress pride flag.

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Jessica Toste @jessicatoste.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Make sure this is on your calendar for Thursday evening in Baltimore! #CEC2025

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