Event Date(s) Information
SMART 1 Day Workshop - Multisensory Spelling Date Coming Soon Learn fun and memorable ways to teach the most common spelling rules. Leave with strategies and materials you can use the next day.


Professional Learning Units (PLUs) are available for all workshops.
In some cases one and two day workshops can be combined with longer workshops for additional professional learning unit credit.
Words, Words, Words: Vocabulary Development & Advanced Decoding June 9-11, 2008 This Orton-Gillingham based workshop picks up where basic word attack leaves off. As students progress they are introduced to textbooks filled with longer, multisyllabic words. Eventually, the caliber and complexity of that reading increases substantially. Even with effective basic phonics instruction, readers are often unable to handle both the increased quantity of text and its complexity. Participants examine the origins of our language, learn about characteristics of the major languages of influence, look over roots and affixes, and study some effective tools for instructing students in this valuable area. Tools such as these help the student whose word decoding abilities have plateaued to move to the next level -- for decoding, vocabulary development, and ultimately comprehension.

Presenter: William VanCleave, Orton Gillingham Trainer

3 days - 2 PLUs - 8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Cost: $325.00
From Words to Works: Developing Writing Skills June 12-13, 2008 This hands-on workshop explores useful strategies for developing students' writing skills. This presentation includes the motor component, list generation, grammar, sentence creation, paragraph development, and proofreading and editing techniques. Participants learn a structured, sequential approach to developing students' writing skills. They practice with the various teaching strategies introduced and learn techniques they can apply the very next day in their classrooms!

Presenter: William VanCleave, Orton Gillingham Trainer

2 days - 1 PLU - 8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Cost: $225.00
Combined Sessions: "From Words To Works" and "Words, Words, Words" June 9-13, 2008 Registering for both sessions at once will allow you to take advantage of the additional contact hours from the 2 and 3 day sessions to earn an additional Professional Learning Unit (PLU).

Presenter: William VanCleave

5 days - 4 PLUs

Cost: $495.00
SMART (Systematic Multisensory Approach to Reading Training) Part 1 June 16-19, 2008 The 4 day workshop will cover phonemic awareness, phonics, and syllabication. You will learn how to teach FUN, structured, research based lessons using hands-on teaching strategies. Materials will be provided.

4 Day Workshop - 2 PLUs - 8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Cost: $595.00
SMART (Systematic Multisensory Approach to Reading Training) Part 2 July 22-25, 2008 This 4 day workshop will build on the skills learned in Part 1. You will be taught how to incorporate vocabulary, syntax, semantics and comprehension instruction into your lessons to create a complete, balanced approach to reading instruction.

4 Day Workshop - 8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Cost: $595.00
Assessing Reading Skills and RtI (Response to Intervention) July 28-29, 2008 Learn to administer both formal and informal diagnostic test measures. Increase your ability to effectively differentiate instruction and meet the legislative requirements of RTI (Response to Intervention) by using these measures to guide your educational decisions.

2 Day Workshop - 1 PLU - 8:30 am - 3:30 pm

Cost: $275.00