The Reading League Summit 2027

Implementing MTSS

Orlando, FL  |  April 8-9, 2027

Maria Speaks at TRL Summit

The Reading League Summit 2027

Implementing MTSS

Orlando, FL  |  April 8-9, 2027

The Reading League Summit 2027 Logo
The Reading League Summit 2027 Logo

One topic. One room. A shared conversation about what it takes to move from research to implementation.

Join educators, leaders, researchers, coaches, and other literacy professionals for a focused Summit on implementing multi-tiered systems of support.

Early Bird registration: $375 through January 1, 2027

Lock in the Lowest Price

Early Bird Pricing

$375

Register through Jan. 1 for the lowest price

Price increases to $475 on January 2

Bring Your Team

$375
per person

Special pricing for groups of 7 or more

Price remains at $375 until April 7

Summit + Conference

$999

Special pricing when you register for the Summit and the Conference

Register through March 1

Featured Speaker

Sarah Brown

Sarah Brown, PhD
Featured Speaker

Sarah Brown, PhD, consults through her company, System Impact Consulting, and is co-author of the books Effective Universal Instruction and the best-selling book, MTSS for Reading Improvement. During her over 20-year career, she has served in roles including the Bureau Chief leading Special Education and MTSS for Iowa, district-level Special Education Director, Professional Learning leader, and School Psychologist. She also led customer education and MTSS within education technology companies. Dr. Brown is passionate about empowering systems to improve outcomes for every learner.

Amanda VanDerHeyden
Amanda VanDerHeyden
Panelist: Tier 1
Amanda VanDerHeyden, Ph.D., is Founder and Chief Product Officer of SpringMath Accelerate and creator of SpringMath, a patented, award-winning, schoolwide MTSS solution that accelerates math achievement through real-time data, targeted instruction, and ongoing support. She is an internationally recognized researcher, author, and innovator in education whose expertise includes academic screening, intervention, implementation science, educational technology, and MTSS. She is widely credited with developing novel approaches to academic screening, intervention, and progress monitoring. Amanda has published more than 100 scholarly articles and chapters and 10 books and is a sought-after presenter, delivering webinar, panel, and keynote sessions to educators and education organizations nationally and internationally.
Matt Burns
Matt Burns
Panelist: Tier 1
Dr. Matthew K. Burns is the Fien Endowed Professor of Special Education at the University of Florida and an Assistant Director of the University of Florida Literacy Institute. Dr. Burns was a first-generation college student from Flint, Michigan who has dedicated his career to improving the lives of the most vulnerable children, including those with disabilities, from high-poverty backgrounds, for whom English was not their native language, and children from other groups of underserved populations. He has published over 200 articles and book chapters in national publications, and has co-authored or co-edited 15 books.
Renata Archie
Renata Archie
Panelist: Tier 1
Renata M. Archie, EdD, is a contributing faculty member in the Reading Science Program at Mount St. Joseph University, where she instructs across graduate programs, including the Master’s and Doctoral levels. With 27 years of experience spanning Pre-K through higher education, Dr. Archie currently serves as a district-level MTSS and literacy specialist supporting a portfolio of NYC Public Schools in the historic neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn. A nationally recognized consultant, she supports state-level capacity building for literacy and MTSS and has been featured on IDA Ontario’s Reading Road Trip podcast, the Dyslexia Made Clear podcast, and PBS/Thirteen’s Let’s Learn NYC. Dr. Archie’s research interests focus on early literacy as well as the intersection of MTSS, literacy, and educator and leader self-efficacy.
Sharon Vaughn
Sharon Vaughn
Panelist: Intervention
Dr. Sharon Vaughn is the Manuel J. Justiz Endowed Chair in Education and the Executive Director of The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, an organized research unit that she founded with a “make a wish” gift from the Meadows Foundation family. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the first woman in the history of The University of Texas to receive the Distinguished Faculty and Research Award, the CEC research award, the AERA SIG distinguished researcher award, and the Jeannette E. Fleischner Award for Outstanding Contributions in the Field of LD from CEC. She is the author of more than 40 books and 500 research articles, six of which have met the What Works Clearing House Criteria for their intervention reports. She has conducted technical assistance in literacy to more than 10 countries and 30 State Departments of Education and has worked as a literacy consultant to more than 50 technical assistance projects.
Elsa Cárdenas Hagan
Elsa Cárdenas Hagan
Panelist: Intervention
Dr. Elsa Cárdenas-Hagan is President of the Valley Speech Language and Learning Center in Brownsville, Texas and a Research Associate with the Texas Institute for Measurement, Evaluation and Statistics at the University of Houston. Elsa has dedicated 25 years working in national research projects sponsored by the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, the Institute of Education Sciences, a research arm of the United States Department of Education and the Office of Special Education Programs. Her research interests include the development of language and literacy skills among Spanish-and English-speaking students. She has also worked with teams of researchers designing assessments and interventions for this linguistically diverse population of students.
Devin Kearns
Devin Kearns
Panelist: Intervention
Devin M. Kearns, Ph.D. is Goodnight Distinguished Professor in Early Literacy at North Carolina State University at Raleigh. Devin studies early reading including the cognitive and neurobiological basis of reading, science-based methods for improving reading skills, and multi-tiered support systems to better meet the needs of all students. He has published more than 70 papers in research journals like the Journal of Educational Psychology and teacher journals like The Reading Teacher and received funding from local and national agencies to support his research. Devin frequently visits schools nationwide to help them build better systems to maximize students’ reading success.
Kim St. Martin
Kim St. Martin
Panelist: Coherence
Dr. St. Martin is the director of Michigan’s MTSS Technical Assistance Center. Her expertise is in integrating literacy and social-emotional behavior support within an MTSS framework for elementary and secondary learners. Dr. St. Martin’s research has focused on evaluating integrated academic and behavioral interventions within an MTSS framework and adolescent literacy. She was a panel member for the IES Practice Guide, Providing Reading Interventions for Students in Grades 4–9. Dr. St. Martin provides policy guidance on state-level literacy and dyslexia legislation.
Erin Chaparro
Erin Chaparro
Panelist: Coherence
Dr. Erin A. Chaparro is a Research Professor at the University of Oregon’s College of Education and a nationally recognized expert in MTSS, PBIS, and systems coaching. A former school psychologist and high school counselor, she studies how schools build the teams, data routines, and coaching supports that turn research into everyday practice, with a focus on Emerging bilingual students and rural and underserved communities. Dr. Chaparro led Oregon’s statewide MTSS professional development initiative, which produced significant gains in elementary literacy across 22 districts. She has served as principal or co-investigator on federal grants totaling more than $10 million and is co-editor of the Journal of MTSS published by the International MTSS Association. She is the author of The MTSS Operating Manual: An Implementation Workbook for District & School Leadership Teams. She currently serves as an implementation partner for the National Center on PBIS.
Jason Harlacher
Jason Harlacher
Panelist: Coherence
Jason Harlacher, PhD, is a Senior Researcher with American Institutes for Research and is the Director of the MTSS Center. He provides consultation and technical assistance to state and district leaders on MTSS. He has extensive expertise in classroom management, data-based decision making, intensive intervention, and positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS). For over two decades, he's worked directly with educators and district leaders to implement MTSS in a practical and manageable way. Previously, he worked as a school psychologist, district-level coach, adjunct professor, and state-level consultant. He is an award-winning author, having most recently authored MTSS Simplified: Five Principles to Support Implementation and Untangling Data-Based Decision Making: A Problem-Solving Model to Enhance MTSS. He earned his PhD in school psychology from the University of Oregon.

Why This Summit

This is the conversation the field needs to have.

The Reading League Summit 2027 will focus on Implementing Multi-Tiered Systems of Support — moving beyond what the research says to examine what it takes to change real systems.

Rather than choosing among multiple tracks, attendees will learn together in one shared room. Researcher-educator panels will surface the questions, tensions, evidence, and implementation realities that are often difficult to explore in a traditional conference format.

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What Makes the Summit Different

  • One focused topic: Implementing MTSS

  • One shared room — no competing breakout tracks

  • Researcher-educator panels designed for authentic dialogue
  • Systems-level learning for leaders, coaches, higher education, researchers, state leaders, and other literacy professionals
  • Hands-on workshop time to apply learning using real-life models
  • A 1.5-day format designed for concentrated learning and conversation

Why Attend the Summit

TRL Summit Attendees

The Summit is designed for professionals who influence literacy systems and implementation, including:

  • coaches

  • school and district leaders

  • higher education faculty

  • researchers

  • state leaders

  • multilingual learner specialists

  • others responsible for improving systems of support

Bring Your Team

Implementation is team work.

Groups of 7 or more can register for $375 per person at any time — allowing teams to keep the Early Bird rate even after January 1.

Bring the people who shape instruction, intervention, assessment, leadership, and systems so your team can build shared understanding together.

TRL Summit Attendees

One room. One shared conversation.

The Summit is intentionally designed so everyone hears the same conversation, wrestles with the same questions, and leaves with a shared foundation for implementation.

I just attended my first Summit, and it did not disappoint. This event was more than a conference—it was an opportunity for the Science of Reading community to come together, reflect, and engage in honest conversations about our progress and the misconceptions that have developed along the way.
Samantha Lasich Caesar
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TRL Summit Attendees
TRL Summit Attendees
Happy TRL Summit attendees

Hotel Info in Orlando

  • Rosen Centre Hotel
    Orlando, Florida

  • April 8–9, 2027

Lock In a Discounted Rate at the Rosen Centre

The Reading League Summit has a block of rooms available at a discounted rate of $209 plus tax at the Rosen Centre Hotel. Book by March 10, 2027, to lock in the discounted rate. Rooms sell out quickly—reserve early!

If you have any questions, the Rosen Center Hotel’s toll-free number is (800) 204-7234. Please note the call centers hours are 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday to Friday and 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on weekends.

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Frequently Asked Questions

The registration fee is $475.00.

This includes:

  • Access to all sessions (no need to register for individual sessions)
  • Lunch on April 8 & 9

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Refunds:

The Reading League will fully refund any cancellations prior to or on March 8, 2027. Cancellations made after March 8 will not be subject to a refund.

Yes, we have a block of rooms available at a discounted rate of $209 plus tax at the Rosen Centre Hotel for this year’s Summit. Book by March 10, 2027, to lock in the discounted rate. Rooms sell out quickly—reserve early!

If you have any questions, the Rosen Center Hotel’s toll-free number is (800) 204-7234. Please note the call center’s hours are 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday to Friday and 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on weekends.

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Yes, all attendees will earn 10.5 credit hours and receive a certificate of completion after the Summit.

Yes, upon registration, list any dietary restrictions you have, and we will accommodate them to the best of our ability.

Yes, our venue is ADA-compliant. Upon registration, please list any aids or services you may need, and we will accommodate them to the best of our ability.

No, The Reading League Summit will not have a virtual component or be recorded for purchase. This is an in-person-only event.

No, we are not accepting proposals for this event.

Yes, sponsorship opportunities for the Summit 2027 are available. For details and pricing, contact Madeline Daly at Madeline@thereadingleague.org. Sponsorships are limited and sell out quickly.

The Reading League’s W-9 form is available for download.

Contact The Reading League’s event team at events@thereadingleague.org.

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