WY TeacherCon 2026

Laura Stam is an elementary educator at Hot Springs County School District #1. She is a 2024-2025 Goyen Fellow and a founding board member of The Reading League Wyoming. She writes a Substack, The Knowledge Exchange: Knowledge-Building for Teachers. She is passionate about the sciences of learning, reading, and math and applying this body of research into practice in the classroom. She has been interviewed on several podcasts, including The Road to Reading Podcast, Progressively Incorrect, Better Teaching: Only Stuff That Works, Melissa & Lori Love Literacy, and The Phenomenal Student. She has also written blog posts about literacy for Science of Reading Classroom and Timothy Rasinski.