Job-Embedded PD makes the difference in Fulton County, Georgia
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…
Lindamood-Bell Partners with Center for Literacy Innovation in Pinellas, Florida
With over 13,500 students in special education, Pinellas County Schools needed to rethink its model of instruction for struggling readers and students with dyslexia. In 2019, it piloted a new Center for Literacy Innovation. The goal was to target specific reading skills and provide intervention in evidence-based programs to accelerate learning. Special education and…
Alaska Schools and Lindamood-Bell—A Proven Partnership Since 1992
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…
Effective Math Resources for Teachers: Help Students Overcome Math Learning Loss
Students in special education and disadvantaged learners have fallen further behind in math due to lost instructional time and other pandemic-related challenges. Combined with lost learning, many of these students often lack the underlying sensory-cognitive process of mental imagery for math conceptualization. For these students, the gap continues to widen. We have worked successfully…
Professional Development Reaches More Teachers in Jamaica
Over the past six years, more than 256 teachers from across Jamaica have received Lindamood-Bell professional development and coaching to increase literacy for struggling readers and students with learning disabilities. The partnership with Creative Language-Based Learning is endorsed by the Ministry of Education and Youth and Information, and is in collaboration with the Culture, Health,…
Intensive Summer Reading Camps
Re-imagine High Impact Tutoring and Extended Learning Opportunities For too many students, summer is a time of learning regression. This can be particularly devastating in light of the pandemic’s impact on student learning. Increasingly, school districts are taking proactive steps to remediate reading difficulties by utilizing the summer months to provide intensive, sensory-cognitive…
Summer Spots are Filling Fast!
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…
Lindamood-Bell Helps Students Learn to Their Maximum Potential
For over 35 years, Lindamood-Bell has believed that all individuals can learn to their potential. We are dedicated to changing the lives of children and adults with our evidence-based, live-online or in-person instruction for reading, comprehension, and math. Our Guide to the Magic of Learning provides information about each of the services Lindamood-Bell provides, including…
We are so excited to celebrate our London Learning Center’s 20-year anniversary!
Our London-Notting Hill Learning Center welcomes students of all ages and abilities to learn to their potential. Watch our video to see what we’ve done over the past 20 years.
Districts Respond to Legislation Mandating Evidence-Based Literacy Programs and PD
In 2018, when asked how Sheryl McCarthy’s district has sustained Lindamood-Bell’s literacy programs and professional development model, her response was straightforward. “Very simply, student success has motivated Kentwood to stick with Lindamood-Bell programs for the past 15 years.” McCarthy is a Reading Consultant for Kentwood Public Schools (KPS), a west Michigan district of just under…
