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…
Leaders in Literacy
This webinar will highlight the comprehensive approach Maine School Administrative District 75 implemented to respond to the needs of struggling readers following the pandemic, as well as their approach in resolving long-standing issues with reading instruction. Director of Special Education Heidi O’Leary will discuss how Lindamood-Bell provides immediate, targeted, and individualized instruction for the most…
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,…
Leaders in Literacy
This presentation examined the strengths and limitations of the Science of Reading, including discussions of the reciprocal relationship of phonemic awareness and phonics, visual memory and orthography, and the cognitive science of learning for decoding and language comprehension, beyond the Simple View of Reading. We were joined by Dr. Andrea Stolar, Director of Special Education…
Tips: The Imagery-Language Connection for Writing
Book reports, essays, and even short responses, can cause frustration, panic, and, sometimes, even tears for many school age students. And it’s no wonder. Writing is a complex task that requires a lot: good thinking skills, organization, spelling, grammar and punctuation, as well as ease with a pencil, or keyboard. Writing can be particularly…
Leaders in Literacy
In this webinar, Dr. Robert Pasternack, the former Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in the U.S. Department of Education, will discuss his role in developing Response to Intervention as a comprehensive approach for meeting the needs of all students. Dr. Pasternack will share the history of RtI and best practices in preventing…
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…
Say Dyslexia! Partnering with Tennessee school districts to help struggling readers.
Since the early 2000s, Lindamood-Bell has worked closely with Tennessee school districts to successfully increase literacy skills. Initially a literacy professional development provider and then a state-approved school Turnaround partner, Lindamood-Bell now provides training in programs listed in the Dyslexia Advisory Council’s Guide to Reading Interventions, part of the state’s “Say Dyslexia” law. These interventions,…
