Last month, our client Nora Chahbazi co-hosted “Accelerate Literacy”, an online summit focusing on new insights and science-backed approaches that promote better student literacy outcomes.
A former neonatal nurse, Nora discovered a more effective way to teach her own struggling child to read, write and spell. Word spread about Nora’s approach and parents and even subliterate adults started reaching out for help. That’s how EBLI®, Evidence-Based Literacy Instruction, was born.
While Federal and State governments invested in traditional literacy programs that saw disappointing student outcomes, thousands of enterprising classroom teachers, private tutors and interventionists turned to EBLI for support in helping their students.
Each time someone witnessed significant student gains, they told others about EBLI. The business grew, not because Nora wanted a business, because she didn’t. She simply kept pace with demand as parents and teachers kept coming back for more.
Nora turned to Discovery Centre for Entrepreneurship to learn how to put efficient systems and processes in place. She and the team needed a better way to manage workload stress and overwhelm–without compromising the heart and soul of EBLI’s caring culture. Nora spearheaded one of the most impressive business transformations I have witnessed. Today Nora runs a highly effective “non-businessy business”.
People would be surprised how many successful entrepreneurs started their business because they felt “unemployable”. When a manager or employee has an undiagnosed learning disability, being subliterate is a vulnerability that becomes a tightly guarded secret. We’ve adopted EBLI as a Partner in Possibility so we can discreetly offer EBLI’s free Supercharge Literacy lessons to our clients.
Congratulations on a successful Summit, Nora and Team EBLI. Your passion for ensuring that all children learn to read and spell is palpable. Achievement of your vision to “Teach the World to Read” is not only possible, it’s a foregone conclusion.
