Our Team

Sarah Profile by Fran, 2023

Sarah K. Blodgett

Founder & CEO

Sarah K. Blodgett is a skilled researcher and writer who developed Noah Text® after personally working with her child who faced challenges with reading. Her journey began in 2003 and was significantly shaped by Dr. Miriam Cherkes-Julkowski, an expert in learning and literacy at the University of Connecticut. Since its introduction in 2016, the patented Noah Text® method has garnered widespread recognition from structured literacy specialists and other education professionals. In 2017, Sarah was selected as an Innovation Showcase Panelist at the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) Education Business Forum. Since 2019, Sarah has partnered with New Century Education Foundation and Michigan State University to develop and research specialized Noah Text® lessons for New Century’s Online Intelligent Tutoring System. Their work with struggling readers has consistently demonstrated significant improvements in literacy skills and increased confidence and enthusiasm for wide reading.

Sarah has facilitated professional development workshops for respected organizations such as the International Dyslexia Association, the Coalition of Adult Basic Education, the Correctional Education Association, Connecticut TESOL, and numerous other educational and literacy-focused groups. She currently serves as a board member of the International Dyslexia Association of Austin (TX) and is an active member of the Collective Impact Group for the Texas branches of the International Dyslexia Association, working to advance evidence-based literacy practices and teacher training throughout the state. With a passion for expanding the reach of Noah Text®, Sarah
continues to grow its technology tools and publications through strategic partnerships. Her unwavering mission is to make Noah Text® available across all print and digital media, ensuring its availability to ALL readers.

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Neal Goff

Publisher, Noah Text Publishing

Neal Goff is an experienced publisher and consultant in the K-12 education market. Formerly President of Weekly Reader, publisher of the well-known children’s classroom magazines, he has managed his own consulting firm, Egremont Associates, for the past decade, providing strategic advice and executional support to children’s and educational publishers. Working with Sarah Blodgett, the founder and CEO of Noah Text, LLC, Neal’s role is to broaden the distribution of Noah Text’s proprietary technology and oversee the firm’s publishing efforts. In this role, Neal draws on more than a quarter century of experience as a publishing executive. Prior to his time at Weekly Reader, he was President of Prentice Hall Direct and President of Scholastic Library (formerly Grolier Reference) Publishing. Neal currently serves on several non-profit Boards, including Literacy Partners, which promotes literacy through a two-generation approach to education, and New Century Education, which provides online education programs to incarcerated populations and other striving readers.

Sam Henry

Sam Henry

Lead Software Engineer

Sam Henry is a professional software engineer and data scientist. He has worked for various companies over the years, focusing on user interfaces, server-side logic, and more. His favorite programming languages to work with are Python and JavaScript. He began programming early in high school, and his passion to solve difficult problems and build useful applications hasn't stopped since. While working with Sarah Blodgett, the founder of Noah Text, LLC, Sam's goal has been to bring Noah Text to life. He has built the architecture and applications that have the capability to convert plain text into Noah Text®. These applications include a browser application; a browser extension for Chrome, Firefox, and Opera; and most recently, mobile applications for iOS and Android. Sam currently works full time for VisioStack Inc, a data management and analytics company that helps railroad companies around the world. When he's not programming, you can find him hanging out with his wife and friends, building wooden models, running, playing piano, or enjoying some shows and video games.