Jodi DeVries
is an educator who is passionate about using evidence-based practices in her classroom and about equipping others with current research so they can do the same. After teaching middle school students at Foundations for the Future Charter Academy in Calgary for over a decade, she faced a growing desire to expand her understanding of cognitive neuroscience, developmental psychology, and atypical neurological development as related to dyslexia. This led her to the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she obtained a Master’s of Education in Mind, Brain, and Education. She focused her studies there on literacy development, and she then spent a year teaching at Landmark High School, a well-known school for students with language-based learning disabilities. Having resumed teaching in Calgary, Jodi seeks to increase student learning through the application of cognitive neuroscience and desires to find ways to better serve students with dyslexia who are in regular classrooms.