TEACHER TRAINING
Empower yourself and your students
INTRODUCTORY DYSLEXIA TRAINING
Next Class: Summer 2025
Site: TBD
This course is guided by the tenants of Structured Literacy (also known as Multisensory Structured Language Education or Orton-Gillingham). Taught as an approach to include the Five Pillars of Literacy (Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension), you will learn to collect data on your student, then create prescriptive lessons while receiving meaningful feedback from the instructors. This instruction is crucial for our most at-risk students and is provided in a emotionally sound, honest, success driven environment.
ADVANCED DYSLEXIA TRAINING
Next class: Late summer 2025
Site: TBD
Continue your learning beyond the one-year introductory class to support our most at-risk students. Topics covered in this course include advanced phonics instruction, fluency practices, vocabulary building, advanced morphology, and assessment interpretation. Teachers will be able to implement knowledge into any existing curricula while receiving meaningful feedback from a Qualified Instructor throughout this self-paced course. The first 14 hours are in-person (site TBD), after that participants may take up to 18 months to complete the remaining 22-hours through asynchronous modules.
NATIONAL CREDENTIAL
Expert Guidance from a Qualified Instructor
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A Certified Academic Language Practitioner is the credential given to a teacher who has completed a year-long, rigorous, structured literacy course in research-based curricula that includes explicit, systematic, cumulative instruction.
As outlined by the International Multisensory Structured Language Education Council (IMSLEC), participants will learn an Orton-Gillingham based approach. Teachers will commit to 50-hours of dyslexia instruction and will be observed implementing this approach with a practicum student over the course of the year to receive constructive feedback to hone skills and knowledge.
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Many of our graduates are invited to work with us for a third calendar year to become ICALP-Interns . This national credential allows an ICALP to train and certify teachers to become CALPs.
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