Description

Transforming classrooms and communities to implement structured literacy is not always easy. This presentation will address how combining our knowledge of evidence-based best practices with effective leadership and collaborations can promote systems change. This session will describe how a model professional development program in structured literacy not only increases children’s reading outcomes but also reduces special education costs. Two different road maps for implementation which result from this study will be shared.

Blanche Podhajski and Janna Osman have no relevant financial or nonfinancial relationships to disclose.

Speaker(s):

• Blanche Podhajski, Ph.D., President, Clinical Associate Professor, Stern Center for Language and Learning, Department of Neurological Sciences, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Faculty, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Vermont
• Janna Osman, M.Ed., Vice President for Advanced Learning, Stern Center for Language and Learning