Breakfast Seminar: Help Your Struggling and Dyslexic Readers

Make Permanent Reading Gains! Breakfast Seminar: SPIRE Overview

This workshop is sponsored by your local Sales Rep, Jeff Alman.

About SPIRE

S.P.I.R.E.® - Intensive Reading Intervention for nonreaders and struggling readers.

Now available with two options for flexible implementation!

About the Seminar

Join us for an overview of S.P.I.R.E., an Orton-Gillingham based reading intervention program designed for your struggling readers, students with dyslexia, and nonreaders. SPIRE builds reading success through direct, explicit, and systematic instruction in phonological awareness, phonics, spelling, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary.

In this half-day seminar, you will learn about:

• Multisensory, Orton-Gillingham based instruction

• Addressing the needs of your dyslexic students, struggling readers, and nonreaders

• Reinforcing concepts for mastery through a spiraling curriculum

• How the program meets the needs of Bill: H 4434 implementation requirement to provide "Dyslexia-specific intervention"

• iSPIRE, the digital version of S.P.I.R.E.

Trainer: Karen Miller

Karen has her Master of Arts Degree from East Tennessee State University in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. Karen’s career includes teaching K-12, serving as a school Principal in several TN Districts, Response to Intervention (RTI) Coordinator, as well as she taught at the elementary level for 10 years before going into school leadership positions. Karen has a knack for leading the district or school-wide effort to implement and sustain RTI skills-based intervention systems, known in TN as Response to Instruction and Intervention (RTI2) model, which identifies and serves students who require additional, targeted assistance in reading/literacy and mathematics. Karen conducts professional development workshops for EPS the last several years surrounding RTI and its application in the K-12.

Who should attend?

This seminar is valuable for all educators serving grades PreK-8+: Special Education Teachers, General Education Teachers, Resource Specialists, Reading Specialists, and staff who work with students with reading disabilities.