Karen Gazith, PhD - The Power of Effective Reading Instruction: How Neuroscience Informs Instruction Across All Grades and Disciplines - 651

Karen Gazith, PhD, is a faculty lecturer in the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology at McGill University, where she also serves as the graduate program director for the Certificate of Inclusive Education and for the ECP liaison for the Office of First Nations and Inuit Education. 

From 2018 to 2020, Dr. Gazith served as the academic project leader for McGill University Faculty of Education’s Determining Best Practice for Students with Learning Challenges in Quebec: Comprehensive Review and Knowledge Mobilization.

She is also the author of Teaching with Purpose: How to Thoughtfully Implement Evidence-Based Practices in Your Classroom.

She serves additionally as the director of the Bronfman Jewish Education Centre of Federation CJA. 

She holds a strong belief that teachers play a critical role in the success of their students, and she has presented worldwide on topics related to developing key competencies in leadership, inclusive education, evidence-based practices, and assessment and instruction.

Dr. Gazith began her teaching career at the Feuerstein Institute in Jerusalem, where she implemented Dr. Feuerstein’s Instrumental Enrichment Program for young children and adolescents.

She has taught at Hebrew College in Boston and the University of New Brunswick as well.

Dr. Gazith has won numerous excellence awards at Federation CJA in Montreal, including the Pearl Feintuch Award, the Gewurz Award for Jewish Educational Leadership, and Federation CJA awards of excellence. She’s received scholarships from Les Fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs et l’Aide à la Recherche from the Quebec government, as well as from the Scottish Rite Foundation for doctoral research. Dr. Gazith earned a doctorate in educational psychology from McGill University.

Our focus today is her book, The Power of Effective Reading Instruction: How Neuroscience Informs Instruction Across All Grades and Disciplines.

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