Agenda Highlights
Our Spring Quarterly Meeting focused on Understanding Dyslexia. After spending the previous few months learning more about the science of reading and best practices in teaching reading, dyslexia began to stand out as a really important focus area for our community.
Kristen Koeller is the Educator Outreach Co-Manager for Decoding Dyslexia CA, and is a Structured Literacy TSA in the San Ramon Valley Unified School District. She is an IDA Certified Structured Literacy Classroom Teacher.
Deberah Schlagel is a Decoding Dyslexia, CA volunteer and parent advocate.
Together they led the webinar and helped our community better understand Dyslexia while exploring the following questions:
- What is Dyslexia and how does it affect student learners?
- Why do so many students fall through the cracks before identification and support?
- What practices and instructional approaches can support students with dyslexia?
- What can we learn from parent experience in navigating school systems to support a dyslexic child?
- What role might we each play in supporting students and how can this knowledge inform our own practice?
See below for links to the presentation guide, the recorded webinar, and the powerpoint slides.