Cory Stai, MEd, leverages over 25 years of teaching and leadership experience to provide subject matter expertise and technical assistance to state agencies and school districts focused on evidence-based instruction and policies for literacy, standards-based education, MTSS/RTI, assessment, and continuous improvement. Cory has served as a middle school English language arts teacher and a K-12 reading interventionist, an adjunct professor and course developer for pre-service education programs, a state literacy specialist, and a board member for several non-profit literacy organizations. He has several publications, including most recently chapters and reports on public policies for literacy (Handbook of Research on Reading Comprehension, chapter 28, 2017); Region 1 Literacy Scan, 2019-2022, 2023) and dyslexia (white paper, 2020; screening for multilingual and bidialectal learners: Massachusetts Dyslexia Guidelines, chapter 9, 2023). Cory holds a masters in literacy education from the University of Minnesota.