TWO FULL DAYS in ATLANTA, GEORGIA In-Person and On-Demand Options Details: https://www.ortonacademy.org/conference/ Keynote Speakers Friday, April 5, 2024 John D.E. Gabrieli, Ph.D. “The Neuroscience of Dyslexia and Its Implications for Education” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA https://gablab.mit.edu/john-gabrieli/ Saturday, April 6, 2024 Laurie E. Cutting, Ph.D. “Neurobiological Predictors of Reading Growth and Text Features […]
11:00 AM-12:00 PM Workshop 1 Structured Literacy | 12:00 PM-1:15 PM Lunch, Garside Award to Dr. Joanna Christodoulou, and Tribute to Joe Green | 1:30 PM-2:30 PM Workshop 2 Attaining Accommodations in Post-Secondary Settings | 2:30 PM-3:30 PM Networking Coffee | ($30 for members / $35 for non-members)
Mandi Davis Skerbetz, EdD – Revisiting Surface Counseling: Supporting Behaviors in General Education Join Mandi as she discusses positive responses to foster student success. Not all students’ inappropriate behaviors require elaborate behavior management interventions. Surface counseling is expected to reduce the likelihood that minor challenging behaviors will escalate into major problems. During this presentation, the […]
IDA Arizona is Proudly Co-sponsoring this Workshop! Fundations® Level 1 Virtual Launch Workshop (Instructor-Led) Description Fundations® Virtual Launch Workshops (instructor-led) provide the practice and guidance needed to effectively begin teaching the Fundations curriculum. This highly interactive remote workshop was developed with extensive participant input during the spring/early summer of 2020. It was designed to maintain […]
IDA Arizona is Proudly Co-sponsoring this Workshop! Just Words® Virtual Launch Workshop (Instructor-Led) Description Just Words® Virtual Launch Workshops (instructor-led) provide the practice and guidance needed to effectively begin teaching the Just Words curriculum. This highly interactive remote workshop was developed with extensive participant input during the spring/early summer of 2020. It was designed to maintain […]
Center School welcomes Dr. Tracy Johnson-Rockmore, Pennsylvania Branch of the International Dyslexia Association Board Member and current Center School parent, and former NFL Detroit Lions player Deon Butler as they discuss the impact dyslexia has had on their professional and personal lives. Join us for this powerful conversation as they discuss the challenges they overcame […]
IDA Arizona is Proudly Co-sponsoring this Workshop! Fundations® Level K Virtual Launch Workshop (Instructor-Led) Description Fundations® Virtual Launch Workshops (instructor-led) provide the practice and guidance needed to effectively begin teaching the Fundations curriculum. This highly interactive remote workshop was developed with extensive participant input during the spring/early summer of 2020. It was designed to maintain […]
IDA Arizona is Proudly Co-sponsoring this Workshop! Fundations® Level 2 Virtual Launch Workshop (Instructor-Led) DescriptionFundations® Virtual Launch Workshops (instructor-led) provide the practice and guidance needed to effectively begin teaching the Fundations curriculum. This highly interactive remote workshop was developed with extensive participant input during the spring/early summer of 2020. It was designed to maintain participation and […]
IDA Arizona is Proudly Co-sponsoring this Workshop! Fundations® Level 3 Virtual Launch Workshop (Instructor-Led) DescriptionFundations® Virtual Launch Workshops (instructor-led) provide the practice and guidance needed to effectively begin teaching the Fundations curriculum. This highly interactive remote workshop was developed with extensive participant input during the spring/early summer of 2020. It was designed to maintain participation […]
This is a virtual support group that meets on the third Thursday of every month from 7-8pm. Registration is free and required to receive the Zoom link. Register here
Words Matter- Orchestrating the Orthographic Learning Presented by Ann Whiting & Lyn Anderson Step into our classrooms to see how we orchestrate the layers of orthographic learning through the investigation of a key word and its relatives. When we study one word, we study many. When we study one word, we study the relationships […]
This is a virtual support group that meets on the last Monday of every month from 7-8pm. Registration is free and required to receive the Zoom link. Register here
Launching Successful Readers in Kindergarten and First Grade Presented by Dr. Susan Brady The importance of phoneme awareness and other foundation skills for beginning readers is well documented. Yet, unfortunately, there are widespread misunderstandings about how phoneme awareness skills develop and about how they should be taught. In this session, the misunderstandings will be evaluated, […]