Online Professional Development Opportunity from the Urban Special Education Leadership Collaborative
Date: February 26, 2026, at 9 a.m.
Location: Virtual
Presentation: Building a System for Secondary Reading Intervention: Lessons from Sweetwater Union High School District
Presenters: Dave Kiyvyra, Director of Development for Lindamood-Bell For Schools, and Michelle Sturm-Gonzalez, Special Education Director of Sweetwater Union High School District (San Diego, CA)
Description: Join us to learn how Sweetwater Union High School District partnered with Lindamood-Bell to implement intensive reading intervention during both the school year and the summer. Special Education Director Michelle Sturm-Gonzalez will share how she defined the problem, built teacher capacity, created workable schedules across schools, analyzed data to identify student needs, and leveraged Lindamood-Bell’s differentiated instructional methodology to improve reading outcomes for the district’s most struggling students.
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59th Annual Conference of the Virginia State Literacy Association
Date: March 4, 2026, at 9:45 a.m.
Location: Hotel Roanoke, Roanoke, VA
Presentation: Understanding Research on the Role of Imagery in Comprehension, and How to Develop Concept Imagery (K-8)
Presenter: Dave Kiyvyra, Director of Development for Lindamood-Bell For Schools
Description: This presentation will provide a summary of the historical and current research on the role of imagery in language comprehension and critical thinking. Educators will examine how weaknesses in Concept Imagery impact learners in the classroom and globally, and review data to make determinations of instructional needs and impacts. They will also discover and utilize pedagogical practices to develop Concept Imagery that are applicable in classrooms and small group settings. Educators will leave with knowledge of how these process-based instructional practices can be applied to Virginia standards.
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