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Years Lost in Letters with Delia Peruyera | Ship's Log #54
"Every independent reader is the result of a visionary educator who refused to give up on a child."
— Delia Peruyera
Episode Summary
Delia Peruyera arrived in the United States from Cuba as a teenager who couldn't reliably read a sign — letters jumping and reversing, compounded by a visual tremor she carries to this day. What followed was a 37-year career inside Miami-Dade classrooms, the last seven of which she spent at a struggling middle school, helping move it from an F to a B using five clinical reading strategies she'd spent decades refining. This episode is the story of how a child who…
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