An Educator's Journey into the Science of Reading with Holly Stripling

Holly began her teaching career in 2000 as a class size reduction
teacher for a large school district in south Texas. She worked
with third grade reading classrooms with pull out and push in
small groups to help improve reading development. She went
on to become an ELAR second grade teacher for three years. Next,
she completed training at Region IV to be a dyslexia
interventionist. Holly was a dyslexia interventionist for a year
before becoming a Grades 2-3 district level Elementary Curriculum
Specialist.


After the birth of her first child she returned to a campus for
dyslexia and reading intervention for about a year and a half.
Her husband's job moved them to the North Dallas area where she
taught first and second grade. She was blessed to take a year off
with her second child, but the teacher life was calling her.
Again, Holly's husband's job moved them south and she worked as a
first grade, third grade, fifth grade teacher and as a middle
school reading interventionist. While there, she completed her
master's degree in leadership and policy studies, as well as,
earning her principal certification. Holly then changed districts
 to be an ELA Campus Instructional Coach for two years.
Recently, she changed districts again to be an Early Literacy
Coordinator for Comal ISD after passing the state's reading
academy cohort leader screening process.


If you would like to get in touch with Holly, you can reach her
at holly.stripling@comalisd.org or on twitter @holly_stripling