Meredith Nardone is a K–12 literacy specialist and a national LETRS trainer. She has taught in both public and private schools in Florida for the past six years, and also has more than three years’ experience teaching English as a second language online. She graduated with a master's degree in Reading K–12 from Barry University. Meredith is the creator of the blog Creativity to the Core and loves sharing the science of reading in digestible bites on her literacy-focused Instagram account @creativitytothecore. Her passion is to share the science of reading with classroom teachers in ways that are both practical and immediately applicable. Meredith lives in Northwest Arkansas with her husband and two children.