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Keynote: The Right to Read — Where Iowa Stands
Everyone Leadership & Policy
Location: Auditorium - 10/28/25, 8:45 AM - 10/28/25, 10:00 AM (America/Chicago) (1 hour 15 minutes)
Dr. Renata Oyelaran
Director of Literacy Research at Prairie Literacy Institute
Dr. Renata Oyelaran
Director of Literacy Research at Prairie Literacy Institute

Renata has spent twenty years studying how children learn to read and why some struggle. She led the statewide review of early reading screeners and advises districts on evidence-aligned reading programs.


A plain-language look at what Iowa's dyslexia legislation requires of schools, what the first years of universal screening data show, and where the gaps still are.