All posts by Julie Gisbon

Ready to See Your Child Succeed Like Never Before?

Academy

 

Is your child struggling in traditional school? We offer the flexibility your child needs. With Academy’s rolling enrollment, you can switch schools at any time. Get a customized program designed to be the best fit for your child’s success.

 

Especially now, the personalized approach to school at Lindamood-Bell Academy is ideal for many students. The Academy is the only school that provides evidence-based, renowned language, literacy, and math skills development and applies that to a fully engaged, interactive, live-online, or in-person education.

 

For over thirty years, we have believed passionately that all children can learn to their potential. Our teachers genuinely engage with their students, and as a result, our students enjoy academic growth, create social connections, and develop a love of learning. 

 

Whether your student needs a full year or simply one-semester enrollment, Lindamood-Bell Academy’s rolling admission allows you to make that choice. Students can attend in-person, live-online, or a hybrid of the two.

 

Ready to see your child succeed like never before? Make the switch now. Watch now to see the Academy difference.

 

 

Call 800-300-1818 to learn more or get in touch to enroll.

Transform Your Child’s School Year

Academy, Learning Centers

 

Worried about learning loss or the “summer slide?” Whether your student has always struggled or is experiencing difficulty with academics for the first time, our Learning Center can help.

With Lindamood-Bell instruction, your student can catch up or get ahead before the fall, potentially making years of progress in a matter of weeks. Our one-to-one, dynamic instruction helps individuals of all ages and abilities learn to read and comprehend to their potential.  


 

Take the first step toward helping your child. A Learning Ability Evaluation will uncover the strengths and weaknesses affecting school performance. In a thorough results consultation, we will discuss a personalized learning plan to make school easier. Get real results and see confidence bloom.

Contact your local LEARNING CENTER to get started.

Go Back to School with Confidence | Summer Instruction at Lindamood-Bell

Learning Camps, Learning Centers

At Lindamood-Bell, students develop sensory-cognitive processing as a foundation for all learning. Instruction is personalized to each student’s individual needs. Our unique approach is evidence-based and improves reading, comprehension, and math skills. Students return to school with new-found confidence and joy in learning, ready to succeed.  

Our renowned instruction is one-to-one, so we’ll only spend time on what your child needs. Our instructors are positive and dynamic, and we see each question we ask, each interaction with a student, as an opportunity to develop their cognition. Our goal is to help students who are struggling with reading, comprehension, or math overcome and succeed. 

Some students may benefit from an accelerated program to advance in areas like writing, study skills, and test-taking. Instruction can also help students apply their skills to a new task like story problems or reading fluency.

See how instruction can make school easier this fall.

 

Check with your local Learning Center about in-person and live, online options.

Find your location or call us! 800-300-1818

Let’s Make This Summer Incredible!

Learning Centers

Imagine your child starting next school year confident and ready to tackle any learning challenge. With Lindamood-Bell, expect the incredible! We successfully develop the skills necessary for reading, writing, comprehension, and math. Watch as your child blossoms with a new love of learning!

The unique, dynamic instruction at Lindamood-Bell is personalized,. one-to-one, focusing on your child’s needs. Both evidence-based and research-supported, it’s instruction you can count on. Our engaging, fun staff and renowned curriculum instruction will change your child’s life.

 

Meet Vanessa and Angel: parents who needed help getting their son’s reading on the right track. Like so many others, they had nearly lost hope. With Lindamood-Bell, they saw incredible gains with their child in record time.

 

Learn about incredible summer programs here. Get started with our Learning Ability Evaluation. The information you’ll receive will answer questions about your child’s school performance, behavior, frustrations, homework issues, and expectations. Then, join us to see your child increase the learning skills that will make school incredible instead of infuriating!

Find your location or call us! 800-300-1818

Job-Embedded PD makes the difference in Fulton County, Georgia

Dyslexia, For Schools, Professional Development

 

Fulton County Schools in Georgia is a diverse school district serving large parts of the Atlanta area. In 2019 the district’s special education department recognized the need for improved reading instruction for their students. They sought to address all components of decoding, including phonemic awareness, word recognition, and reading accuracy, as well as a way to help develop students’ vocabulary and comprehension for oral and written language. 

 

Fulton County selected Lindamood-Bell to provide initial and ongoing professional development in the Seeing Stars® and Visualizing and Verbalizing® (V/V®) programs. Seeing Stars addresses all components of decoding, while V/V addresses vocabulary and comprehension. The district decided to implement a phased-in model over five years, allowing the district to provide workshops and effectively support at least 100 new teachers each year. 

 

During the second year of implementation, Fulton County began expansion into additional elementary school sites, as well as several district middle schools.  Providing job-embedded professional development to middle school staff will allow upper elementary students to continue to receive process-based instruction and close the achievement gap as they move into secondary education. Teachers have been receiving the initial Level 1 workshop, and access to asynchronous review and next-step Level 2 professional development coursework to continue to grow their skills. 

 

Crucially, Fulton County Schools recognized the need for ongoing job-embedded professional development through Lindamood-Bell consultants present in live sessions via Zoom. This level of sustained and rigorous support has been a key factor in the quality and fidelity of instruction, a model supported by best practices in teacher preparation and effectiveness. 

 

During these live sessions, Lindamood-Bell consultants have been able to interact directly with students and teachers to model, co-teach, and provide feedback on lessons in real-time. They have also provided lesson plans and written session analyses to teachers. This has been supplemented by monthly Professional Learning Community meetings between Lindamood-Bell consultants and Fulton County staff. Building leaders have also been given opportunities to observe instruction alongside a Lindamood-Bell Project Director to help provide them with a better understanding of what instruction should look like, and how they can continue to support their teachers with implementation.

 

During the 2021-22 school year, Fulton County special education teachers implemented Lindamood-Bell® instruction to address the specific needs of this student population. One thousand six hundred eighty-eight(1,688) students received primarily Seeing Stars instruction to develop symbol imagery and phonemic awareness for reading. Instruction was delivered by Fulton County teachers who received professional development in the programs developed by Lindamood-Bell’s founders. Students in grades K-8 received small group instruction as close to daily as feasible for 30-45 minutes. Student gains were measured with the i-Ready Reading Diagnostic. (Note: Some small groups received Visualizing & Verbalizing instruction for language comprehension and thinking.)

 

 

RESULTS:
On average, Fulton County Schools achieved significant improvements in overall reading placement for their LindamoodBell students. In fall i-Ready® testing, 1,382 out of 1,688 students were two or more levels below the target for their grade. In spring testing, 1,112 students were two or more levels below, a decrease of 20%. Furthermore, the number of students on or above level in overall reading scores grew from 28 in fall testing to 186 in spring testing, an increase of 664%. The results of this study illustrate that Lindamood-Bell instruction leads to improved reading, which is essential to achieving success with school curricula.

PROFILE: Special Education Students – End-of-Year Results 
Number of Students: 1,688
Grade Levels: Kindergarten-8th Grade
Lindamood-Bell Programs Implemented: Seeing Stars®

Outcome Measures:
• i-Ready® Reading Diagnostic

 

 

The district and Lindamood-Bell are continuing their five-year partnership in 2023-24. Teacher workshops and ongoing professional development will be provided for Fulton County staff. 

 

Contact us to learn more about how Lindamood-Bell can make a difference for your students.

Alaska Schools and Lindamood-Bell—A Proven Partnership Since 1992

For Schools, Professional Development

 

Since our first partnership with Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District in 1992, Lindamood-Bell has collaborated with schools across Alaska to deliver in-person and virtual professional development to teachers providing literacy instruction for struggling readers and students with learning disabilities. 

 

Since 1986, Lindamood-Bell has worked with schools, educators, and students to implement programs and organizational processes that develop or remediate literacy skills. We help educators provide evidence-based, sensory-cognitive instruction as a basis for developing phonemic awareness, phonics, orthographic awareness, fluency, vocabulary, math, and reading comprehension.

 

Our partnerships with schools have succeeded in closing the achievement gap by providing explicit, cumulative, and systematic instruction in this methodology. We have substantial evidence of effectiveness with turning around low-performing schools and increasing reading proficiency with struggling readers, including students with dyslexia and in special education.

 

Profiles of Success: School and Student Outcomes

 

We have created school implementation and professional development options designed to maximize student achievement. The following are two examples. See more of our results with schools here.

 

Kodiak Island Borough School District

Kodiak Island School Borough (KISB) serves a large percentage of students who are at-risk of reading failure. During the summer of 2016, KISB implemented Lindamood-Bell instruction to address the specific needs of this student population. Teachers received initial workshops and job-embedded professional development to build their instructional capacity. Statistically significant gains were made on all reading measures.

 

 

 

Levels of Professional Learning 

 

Evidence-based programs are key to our solutions for schools.

Our approach addresses the imagery-language foundation that is a silent partner to cognition and literacy—often the missing piece in helping students close the achievement gap. 

Lindamood-Bell for Schools Levels of Professional Learning include teacher workshops, job-embedded coaching, and comprehensive school partnerships. We help schools build expertise in aligning assessments with instruction for students in all tiers of instruction. Our programs address the skills needed for students to access curriculum.

 

Reading and Spelling Programs

 

Seeing Stars

Symbol Imagery for Phonological and Orthographic Processing in Reading and Spelling

Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing (LiPS)

Phonemic Awareness for Reading, Spelling, and Speech

 

Comprehension Programs

 

Visualizing and Verbalizing (V/V)

Concept Imagery for Language Comprehension, Thinking, and Memory

Talkies

Concept Imagery for Oral Language Comprehension and Expression

 

Math Program

 

On Cloud Nine

Numeral Imagery and Concept Imagery for Computation, Word Problems, and Reasoning

 

Explore our professional development workshops, and contact us with questions and to discuss how your school can get started.

 

Contact: Brill Pennington, Regional Director of Development for Schools 

brill.pennington@LindamoodBell.com or pd.solutions@lindamoodbell.com

(805) 546-5601

 

Social Connections at Lindamood-Bell Academy: It’s Easy to Make Friends

Academy

 

Your child deserves a dynamic interactive school experience where they will thrive. The Academy’s positive and caring staff will create an individualized learning plan for your child’s unique learning needs.

And, whether live-online or in person, your child will have the opportunity to form close, social connections with their classmates.

“My favorite part of Academy is that everyone is nice, and it’s easy to make friends. I love working with my teachers and friends either one-to-one or in small groups.” – Grace, a student

 

Listen to Tim talk about his friends at Lindamood-Bell Academy:

 

Call 800-300-1818 to learn more or get in touch to enroll. 

Summer Spots are Filling Fast!

Australia, Learning Centers

After the past couple of years many students lost ground in basic academic skills. Stanford researchers reported that “reading fluency among second- and third-graders is roughly thirty percent behind what would be expected in a typical year.”

We know from experience that the earlier a learning issue is addressed, the less time it will take to get a student on track and feeling confident. 

If your child is struggling now, we can identify current strengths and weaknesses and give them the help they need now, before school starts. A learning evaluation will uncover the specific strengths and weaknesses that are affecting school performance. In a thorough results consultation, we will discuss an individualized learning plan to ensure success for your child.

Helping families prevent and reverse learning loss over summer is what we do through our unique, data-driven instruction. Our students make years of growth in reading and comprehension in a matter of just weeks.

Our unique, evidence-based approach is effective with many students including those with dyslexia, autism spectrum disorder, or a general learning challenge. We can help students catch up, enhance their skills, or just make learning easier. 

Our one-to-one, personalized summer learning is in-person or online. Hurry, summer spots are filling fast. 

Watch how a mother describes how Lindamood-Bell instruction improved her daughter’s language and literacy skills.

Secure your spot now! 

Double Bay (02) 9328 7119  ~ Chatswood (02) 9410 1006

Find your location or call us! 800-300-1818

Meet Bentley, an Academy Success Star!

Academy

Bentley had experienced years of struggle in school and foster homes. He made little academic progress despite being a social, happy child. Most of the schools focused on behavioral control instead of cognition and skills. Bentley was facing a challenging future—until he came to Academy. The Lindamood-Bell Academy is a unique in-person or online accredited private school where we develop sensory-cognitive processing as a foundation for all learning.

 

 

The positive, engaging approach to school at Academy features Socratic questioning—instructors teach students to integrate sensory information to help them develop their language and literacy skills. Unlike any other school, the Academy’s primary goal is to develop cognition. This unique approach to building a foundation based on sensory-cognitive processing yields incredible results. 

 

Soon Bentley was able to read and write, experiencing success at school for the first time. Academy’s caring, highly skilled instructors focus on exactly what each student personally needs. Bentley has a bright future now because he received the proper instruction. He has a chance to shine like a star.

 

Get in touch to find out how Lindamood-Bell Academy can be the solution for your child.

Summer Spots are Filling Fast!

Learning Centers

After the past couple of years many students lost ground in basic academic skills. Stanford researchers reported that “reading fluency among second- and third-graders is roughly thirty percent behind what would be expected in a typical year.”

We know from experience that the earlier a learning issue is addressed, the less time it will take to get a student on track and feeling confident. 

If your child is struggling now, we can identify current strengths and weaknesses and give them the help they need now, before school starts. A learning evaluation will uncover the specific strengths and weaknesses that are affecting school performance. In a thorough results consultation, we will discuss an individualized learning plan to ensure success for your child.

Helping families prevent and reverse learning loss over summer is what we do through our unique, data-driven instruction. Our students make years of growth in reading and comprehension in a matter of just weeks.

Our unique, evidence-based approach is effective with many students including those with dyslexia, autism spectrum disorder, or a general learning challenge. We can help students catch up, enhance their skills, or just make learning easier. 

Our one-to-one, personalized summer learning is in-person or online. Hurry, summer spots are filling fast. 

Watch how a mother describes how Lindamood-Bell instruction improved her daughter’s language and literacy skills.

Find your location or call us! 800-300-1818