HCOS Connect 2025

Recommendations 

 See below for links from the HCOS Learning Commons, where you can borrow e-books and audiobooks from Dr. Mattatall’s recommended reading list. 

 Books 

 The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising, Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents (2024) by Lisa Damour ( e-book , audiobook ) 

 The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness (2024) by Jonathan Haidt ( e-book , audiobook ) 

 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 , audiobook ) 

 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 ) 

 Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It (2024) by Richard Reeves ( audiobook ) 

 Research Reports 

 The Girls’ Index (2023) by Lisa Hinkelman 

 The National Reading Panel Report (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 

 Video 

 Jealousy, Jealousy by Olivia Rodrigo  

 Websites 

 Balanced Literacy Diet 

 Florida Center for Reading Research (go to "FCRR Student Center Activities") 

 University of Florida Literacy Institute 

 Ontario Literacy 

 Timothy Shanahan’s Reading Research website 

 Keynote Presentation 

 

 Slide Deck 

 

 Workshop 1 

 Slide Deck 

 

 

 Workshop 2 

 

 Slide Deck 

 Creating a Successful Plan for Grad 

 Slide deck 

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

 Kelowna Slide Deck 

 North Slide Deck 

 Abbotsford Slide Deck 

 Nanaimo Slide Deck 

 Mathematical Thinkers Handout 

 Numeracy Development Links