She told me she almost quit in February.

Not teaching — just the whole idea of reaching the kids in the back row.

The ones who had been with her since August and still weren't reading.

The ones who made her lie awake at night running through everything she'd tried.

She said, "I started to wonder if it was me."

It wasn't her.
It was the approach.

She found the Science of Reading Formula in March — three months from the end of the year and convinced it was too late to matter.

She tried it anyway.

By April, one of her struggling readers read a full sentence independently for the first time.

Not a word.
A sentence.

She texted me that night and I could feel how proud she was right through the screen.

Here's what she said:

"I don't know why nobody taught me this before. I feel like I wasted years."

You haven't wasted years.
You've been teaching with the tools you had.

And if you're reading this right now, wondering why some of your kids still aren't where you thought they'd be by May — I want you to know there's a reason...

And there's a fix.

It's not you.
It's the approach.

The Science of Reading Formula opens twice a year — August and January.

Right now, doors are closed.

But if you want to be ready when they open, you can listen to this week's podcast episode to get a taste of what's inside.