Professional Expertise

Reading:

• Windward Teacher Training Institute
  • Multisensory Reading Instruction: Preventing Academic Failure Part One
  • Multisensory Reading Instruction: Preventing Academic Failure Part Two
  • Syllables are the Key: Basics of Language Structure Through Syllabication
  • Language Development & Early Literacy: Phonological Awareness  Skills, Language, Literacy, and Learning 
• Learning and the Brain Conferences 
  • Constructing the Reading Brain
• Ellin Keene
  • Teaching Reading Comprehension 
  • Talk About Understanding
• Wilson Reading System
• Orton Gillingham (OCGE Level)
• Phonological Processing:  Indemnification, Development, and Remediation

 Writing: 

• Windward Teacher Training Institute
  • Expository Writing Instruction Part One and Part Two
• Columbia University, Teachers College
  • The Reading and Writing Project; Writing Institute  

Math:

• Windward Teacher Training Institute
  • Singapore Math: Model Drawing
  • Improving Math Competence: Diagnosis and Remediation
• Investigations in Number, Data, and Space: TERC 
  • Investigations I
  • Investigations Leadership 

Academic Achievement Tests:

• Woodcock – Johnson IV
• PAF Decoding             
• WIAT 
• TOWL
• GORT
• DRA
• QRI
• Key Math

Additionally, we are skilled at interpreting both neuro-psychological evaluations and psycho-educational evaluations, and we will implement a personalized plan based on your child’s learning profile.

Social and Emotional Learning:

• Learning and the Brain Conferences:
  • Teaching With the Brain in Mind 
• Bena Kalick
  • Growth Mindsets
  • Maintaining a Positive Attitude
• Mel Levine: ­
  • All Kinds of Minds 
  • Teaching All Kinds of Minds 
• Rick Hanson
  • Mindfulness 
• Mindful Schools 
  • Yoga in the Classroom 
• Cogmed Working Memory Training 
• Child Mind Institute
  • Building Resilient Classrooms 
• Omega Institute
  • Mindfulness Training Workshop
• Yoga For Classrooms
  • Teacher Training for Incorporating Yoga in the Classroom

Transition to college:

• University of California, Los Angeles
  • Concentration in College Counseling
• Preparing for the Transition to College: 
• A Workshop for Educational Professionals and Students with Learning Disabilities
• The Power of Motivation
• Issues in Transition Planning
• Interest and Values Inventories
• COPS & COPES

Special Education:

• Special Education Procedural Requirements
• Bringing Connecticut Special Education Law Into Focus
• Special Education Law and Due Process
• Inclusion and Classroom Modifications