In-School Teacher Training Program

Summary

Superintendents, curriculum specialists and public elementary school principals invite Reading Reform Foundation to send skilled teaching consultants into the schools.  These consultants provide training directly in the classroom and conduct individual conferences with the classroom teacher to supplement the classroom instruction.

Reading Reform Foundation's in-school teacher training program is available only in

  • New York City
  • public school classrooms
  • regular education classrooms

For more detailed information about the In-School Teacher Training Program, click here.

In addition, the Parent Involvement Program, parents of the children in Reading Reform Foundation classrooms have the opportunity to participate in mini-courses and/or workshops which explain and demonstrate the training their children's teachers are receiving.  Through the program, parents can also become active partners in their children's education.

For information on how the Reading Reform Foundation In-School Teacher Training Program and/or the Parent Involvement Program can work in your school or district, please contact:

Lauren Wedeles, Executive Director
Reading Reform Foundation

or email:
info@readingreformny.org

 
What principals have said about the program:
"Since we piloted the program with one first grade class 4 years ago, our standardized test scores have risen. Last year, most of our fourth graders who received the highest score of ‘4’ on the state English Language Arts (ELA) exam, were from our first Reading Reform class.  

We just received our fourth grade ELA test results for this year- our school improved 13% , more than double the improvement of every elementary school in our District, and the third highest improvement of all elementary schools in our Region.  

We strongly believe that our use of the Orton-Gillingham approach as used by Reading Reform Foundation, is building a solid foundation for our early childhood students, most specifically our English language learners."

 

"I observed a training lesson between a consultant and teacher [with] a group of 30 bilingual students.  I was amazed at how much they had learned since the beginning of the year...   They've learned to put sounds together to read words, they make connections, [and] can spell and write creative stories and sentences."