Winter 2025/2026 Newsletter
2025 year in review
Dear readers,
The MORE team is beyond grateful for all the interest, engagement and support this year. Thank you for following along in 2025, and we hope you’re excited for everything we have in store next year!
We’re wishing you a wonderful holiday and a year filled with laughing and loving language.
With gratitude,
READS Lab
The year in numbers
- Served more than 32,000 students.
- Provided professional learning for more than 1,900 teachers.
- Expanded to seven new rural districts.
- Featured research in 10 different news outlets.
- Published two new studies.
- Created or revised four MORE units.
- Wrote four transfer assessments.
- Wrote 12 MORE books.
- Created over 700 MORE digital activities.
- Gained 721 new LinkedIn followers.
Looking ahead
As 2025 comes to a close, we are looking ahead to many new projects and opportunities.
Looking to slow the summer slide?
READS for Summer Learning is finally back!
The new and improved program will be available to purchase for Summer 2026. Districts, schools, and nonprofits can use this read-at-home program to encourage students’ engagement with physical books over the summer. It’s evidence-based, easy to implement, and low-cost. Read about the program here.
If you are interested in purchasing this program for Summer 2026, please complete this form.
Do you want MORE in your school or district?
For the first time, MORE will be available for a small fee to individual schools and smaller districts!
As part of your purchase, you’ll get hands-on training and learn everything you need to know at our Summer Leadership Institute in July. This two-day experience will prepare sites to implement the MORE tools in their school(s) and integrate the MORE way of thinking into their instruction.
Want to learn more or register? Fill out our interest form here.
Announcing new research!
What if teachers could use AI to help them create their own MORE-like lessons and units?
Stay tuned as the READS Lab team explores this question during Spring 2026.
Stay connected
Our Instagram has a new look! Follow @reads.lab for educational research, best practices for the classroom, and behind the scenes of our lab that serves teachers and students nationwide.