School and District Wide Professional Development

As reading proficiency continues to decline, new dyslexia laws are being implemented and educators are searching to enhance their understanding of reading instruction and shift their practices to align with the science of reading. For districts looking for a professional development course that will support your educators in making this shift and elevate reading and writing skills for your students, this is what you have been searching for.

Offering science of reading professional development for districts to support educators and elevate reading and writing skills.

Savannah Dyslexia has launched this course with all K-5 teachers in a district with over 175,000 students and feedback from teachers and administration has been positive. Here is what they had to say…

This course was one of the most powerful reading courses I have ever taken. I have a solid understanding of how the components of reading come together. I also learned all of the syllable patterns and rules for spelling/sounds. The brain research shared helped me to understand why students may struggle. I have been able to use this knowledge with teachers. I am excited to have my whole staff trained with this information.
– School Administrator
This course is not only an eye opener to what children need in order to be able to learn, but it walks you through the process of how to teach reading. I have told everyone I know that this course is a must!
– School administrator
All I can say is, don’t think about it, do it. This was the best training we have ever been asked to complete. It was timely, informative, and provided us the resources and materials needed to immediately try the new learning. My teachers are on fire right now and I have to give this credit to Casey’s approach to these instructional strategies. It makes sense!
– Instructional coach
I would highly recommend taking the OG Multi-sensory Course. I think it should be a required course for all elementary school teachers. The content is presented in a concise and structured format with excellent strategies and examples to use in teaching our students to be strong readers and writers. I am so thankful I was given the opportunity to do this! I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I know my students will greatly benefit from the instructional techniques.
– Classroom teacher
I absolutely enjoyed this course and I am walking away as a more knowledgeable teacher than I was prior to taking this course. I have been able to implement many of the strategies during our skills block segment and the students really seem to enjoy it. I would highly recommend this course to anyone looking to deepen their knowledge on how to teach phonics and vocabulary skills using a multi-sensory approach.
– Classroom Teacher
I have enjoyed this course more than any other training because I left with 100% RIGHT NOW strategies I can use with my students. I feel like I have a toolbox full of tools to use that will start helping all of my students. This isn’t just a training for one group of students, this training will help you learn how to reach ALL students.
– Classroom Teacher
I call myself lucky to have been selected to take this course. It has taught me more than I had anticipated and learned so much needed instructions that I never thought I needed. I am very thankful and so are my students.
– Classroom Teacher
This course was great. It was taught by an instructor who is clearly passionate about reading instruction and most importantly someone who is an expert in the field. I feel confident I will be able to implement all that I have learned in this course. My students will shine brighter because of it. I wish I would’ve learned these things years ago!
– Classroom Teacher
This was one of the best reading courses I’ve taken in the last 11 years. I loved that the strategies were not just for one particular demographic, but are really a formula for ALL students. 10/10- highly recommend.
– Classroom teacher
This course is a game-changer for Literacy teachers! So much valuable information we were not taught in college. If you want to up your teaching game, this is the course to do!!
– Classroom Teacher
I have been teaching elementary for 28 years, and this is one of the best trainings I’ve ever had. I feel like this was the missing piece in my own education. I highly recommend it to all elementary teachers, new and old alike! (I wish I’d had it in my teaching program!)
– Classroom Teacher
Savannah Dyslexia’s multisensory training was so engaging and applicable. It merged together theory and application in a way that made me immediately want to start doing this with my students!
– Classroom Teacher
I highly recommend this course; it has been the most informative Professional development class I have taken. The details and explicit instructions for the strategies are clear and carefully demonstrated in all videos and the live class. The manual is well written, supporting the visual instruction
– CLassroom Teacher
This was the best course I have ever taken during my entire teaching career to provide strategies for the teaching of reading and the detailed understanding of word knowledge and how to help students to decode and read!!!!!! I truly learned so much!!!
– Classroom Teacher
  • Offering science of reading professional development for districts to support educators and elevate reading and writing skills.
  • Offering science of reading professional development for districts to support educators and elevate reading and writing skills.
  • Offering science of reading professional development for districts to support educators and elevate reading and writing skills.
  • Offering science of reading professional development for districts to support educators and elevate reading and writing skills.

Introduction to Implementing Multisensory Structured Literacy Course

Professional development course to educate classroom teachers in the science of reading while empowering them with the knowledge and tools to implement a structured, systematic, multisensory reading and spelling approach in their classroom.

This course is focused on a strong base in research of reading development, the reading brain and what we know through research of best practices to reach all students in reading and spelling instruction and to help teachers understand the WHY behind the shift in practices of literacy instruction. At the same time, course development was focused on empowering teachers with the knowledge of the structure of the English language and HOW to implement these new practices within their classrooms.

In addition to the background understanding of the structure of the English language, the course includes interactive ways for teachers to learn the concepts and how to teach the material to students.

  • Teachers experience structured literacy lessons as “students” to see how they can teach their students with this approach.
  • Teachers watch students being taught these skills using the tools teachers are learning to implement.
  • Teachers participate in lessons using materials and tools that students will be using in their classroom lessons.

Course Materials

Each teacher receives:
Course manual and phonogram deck
Over 1000 pages of digital materials to print and use in classroom.

Course Content

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This course was designed as a manageable 45 hours of training with 38 hours of the training being asynchronous and self-paced so that teachers have flexibility in when they complete the learning modules. All asynchronous training weeks will include interactive videos, demonstrations of applying concepts in classrooms and knowledge checks . Due to the volume and complexity of material, it is important that teachers have direct contact with the trainer for synchronous learning to occur in addition to the asynchronous learning. This course gives each teacher 7 hours of Live training hours with their Fellow to ensure deep learning, interactive small group work and ability for questions and learning to be clarified.

Cohort Design

Savannah Dyslexia works with each partner district to find Cohort timings that work with the district schedules to ensure teachers do not have due dates during school holidays. We also work with districts in choosing weeks for the Synchronous training days to ensure ability of sub coverage. Cohorts are designed with districts to spread the 7 weeks of training out to include padding weeks and off weeks for teachers as a built in relief valve for flexibility due to teacher scheduling and their daily work load. This ensures that teachers have time not to fall behind in course completion.

To see how your district can partner with Savannah Dyslexia, please contact us and we will be in touch with more information and pricing.

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