A dedicated, conscientious teacher her entire career, Julie was constantly researching and learning. She taught everything she was told to do, and then some, to teach her young charges to read and write. For the first half of the school year she often worked in her classroom well into the evening, learning more and making materials to enhance her instruction. Even with all her efforts, her students’ reading assessments remained dismal. Though she was skeptical and EBLI sounded too good to be true, her frustration motivated her to pursue the EBLI training.