Breakfast Seminar - Move Learning Forward
SPIRE® Overview
Are you looking for an effective way to teach students who struggle with reading? Look no further than SPIRE – the program developed by Orton Gillingham Fellow, Sheila Clark Edmands.
SPIRE is an intensive reading intervention program that brings the Orton-Gillingham approach and science of reading principles to the classroom. It offers direct, explicit, and systematic instruction in phonics, spelling, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary. With flexible professional development, teachers of all levels can implement this program easily, and help struggling readers be successful. Join our breakfast seminar to discover how SPIRE can help your students.
Discover how you can help your struggling readers be successful with the right program, guidance, and support.
About SPIRE
SPIRE® has been used nationwide with remarkable success by thousands of elementary, middle, and high school students. This includes students with characteristics of dyslexia or specific learning disabilities or who need direct, systematic, sequential instruction in reading.
About the Seminar
Garrett Ivey will provide an overview of SPIRE:
- Offers multisensory, structured literacy-based instruction
- Effective explicit and systematic teaching
- Reinforcing concepts for mastery through a spiraling curriculum
- Teacher-friendly lesson plans using SPIRE materials
- Multisensory teaching techniques demonstrated in 10-step lessons
- Progress monitoring assessments built into the program
- Adheres to NYSED guidelines with evidence-based reading instruction
- Provides support for students with dyslexia, striving readers, and SLDs
Your local EPS Learning Account Executive, Elmon Frederick, is sponsoring this seminar.
Trainer: Garrett Ivey
Garrett is a UNC graduate with highest honors in Psychology & Neuroscience and distinction in Women's & Gender Studies. He taught evidence-based practices as a special education teacher and was awarded Teacher of the Year. As a master SPIRE Curriculum Specialist, Garrett trains and mentors teachers in various educational pedagogies, focusing on students of all backgrounds and ability levels. He is a certified Orton-Gillingham teacher with a passion for literacy and ensuring it is treated as a right.
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. Please feel free to bring a colleague from your district—any administrative team member, including your superintendent, is welcome.
