# HCOS Connect 2025

#### Recommendations

<p class="callout info">See below for links from the HCOS Learning Commons, where you can borrow e-books and audiobooks from Dr. Mattatall’s recommended reading list.</p>

##### Books

- *The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising, Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents* (2024) by Lisa Damour ([e-book](https://soraapp.com/library/heritageca/generated-188962/titles/200063/9017360), [audiobook](https://soraapp.com/library/heritageca/generated-188963/titles/200063/9090687))
- *The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness* (2024) by Jonathan Haidt ([e-book](https://soraapp.com/library/heritageca/search/query-the%20anxious%20generation/titles/200063/9953442), [audiobook](https://soraapp.com/library/heritageca/generated-188963/titles/200063/9951400))
- *The Mediatirician’s Guide: A Joyful Approach to Raising Healthy, Smart, Kind Kids in a Screen Saturated World* (2024) by Michael Rich, MD ([e-book](https://soraapp.com/library/heritageca/generated-188962/titles/200063/9703554), [audiobook](https://soraapp.com/library/heritageca/generated-188963/titles/200063/9703539))
- *10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People: A Groundbreaking Approach to Leading the Next Generation—And Making Your Own Life Easier* (2024) by David Yeager ([e-book](https://soraapp.com/library/heritageca/generated-188962/titles/200063/9017360))
- *Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It* (2024) by Richard Reeves ([audiobook](https://soraapp.com/library/heritageca/generated-188963/titles/200063/9054145))

##### Research Reports

- [The Girls’ Index](https://www.rulingourexperiences.com/research) (2023) by Lisa Hinkelman
- [The National Reading Panel Report](https://www.nichd.nih.gov/sites/default/files/publications/pubs/nrp/documents/report.pdf) (2000)

##### Paper

Ehri, L.C.(2022). What teachers need to know and do to teach letter-sounds, phonemic awareness, word reading, and phonics. *The Reading Teacher, 0* (0). 1-9. doi: [10.1002/trtr.2095](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l1wU7afQYmplO2xLqSpSHdXsQkML1xei/view?usp=sharing)

##### Video

[Jealousy, Jealousy](https://youtu.be/YabMjbXdi04?si=fFu0RYmzoLnS9nKO) by Olivia Rodrigo

##### Websites

- [Balanced Literacy Diet](https://litdiet.org/Home/index.html)
- [Florida Center for Reading Research](https://fcrr.org/) (go to "FCRR Student Center Activities")
- [University of Florida Literacy Institute](https://ufli.education.ufl.edu/)
- [Ontario Literacy](https://onlit.org/)
- [Timothy Shanahan’s Reading Research website](https://www.shanahanonliteracy.com/)

#### Keynote Presentation

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</div>[Slide Deck](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1iY3y6H5WnZXeSeilj4S912emEroL9xUMXVnGU0cPfd4/edit?usp=sharing)


#### Workshop 1  


<div id="bkmrk--1" style="padding: 56.25% 0 0 0; position: relative;"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media" frameborder="0" height="" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/1080349986?badge=0&autopause=0&player_id=0&app_id=58479" style="position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;" title="Early Acquisition and Intervention of Reading" width=""></iframe>

  
[Slide Deck](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nAmy4l24jmTz6mrpFxSvO2BM-3cxANnudIEPKvZBhCE/edit?usp=sharing)</div>

#### Workshop 2

<div id="bkmrk--2" style="padding: 56.25% 0 0 0; position: relative;"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media" frameborder="0" height="" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/1081512707?badge=0&autopause=0&player_id=0&app_id=58479" style="position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;" title="Development of the Teenage Brain" width=""></iframe>

</div>[Slide Deck](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12Hx2Fvn7_bRq9XYxoeTmgShUgCXWhejFk4vY5maDLNY/edit?usp=sharing)

#### Creating a Successful Plan for Grad

[Slide deck](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TEsxOYVGmoSJf778tbVr181WRWhEcR1pU_0S1UJTsUw/edit?usp=sharing)

#### Numeracy Development in K-9 Students: Building Strong Mathematical Thinkers

- [Kelowna Slide Deck](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZBle6-icwc2a98mJpnzB0UdnLd2nT3UbOEjnPMc0vtc/edit#slide=id.g266576b8198_2_8)
- [North Slide Deck](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Ea_i6gBpTk3fXP-Tzw13kD1RFj_wT_MQthngNkfFDjk/edit?usp=sharing)
- [Abbotsford Slide Deck](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IZTtAJklua11lTbkEc8o9qs2gsNpnPt2W6MmLGoZNhQ/edit?usp=sharing)
- [Nanaimo Slide Deck](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MxifEjh5jXZi2-3GIh8sR3VLR7iqknthfOxNshy8gwk/edit?usp=sharing)
- [Mathematical Thinkers Handout](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SNyOfyzLML5l2WPDFjsCHqprAj2DcTYr/view?usp=sharing)
- [Numeracy Development Links](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m3_XcwD0MX6ZZVaWvhXhZwUDLRvgb49drUytPjLdAy4/edit?tab=t.0)