Teachers who recently completed the two year, 12 credit graduate level program in multisensory reading instruction were honored at the last Board meeting. This program
was fully funded by the Board through grant monies and is offered through Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU), which is accredited by the International Multisensory Structured Language Education Council (IMSLEC). FDU is the only university in New Jersey to have achieved this accreditation and is only one of 28 universities nationwide certified by the International Dyslexia Association.
During the two years that the teachers are enrolled in the program, they attend lectures, which cover all aspects of language development and language structures, as well as how to spot the warning signs that a child is not developing the skills needed to read fluently. In addition to the lectures, they also work with two students each week in a 1:1 clinical model.
At the Board meeting, the teachers were presented with their IMSLEC certification as an Orton-Gillingham Teacher. Their hard work and commitment to life-long learning is applauded and is what makes them all such outstanding teachers.
(Pictured from left to right) Keri Lynn Jones, Janice Garthwaite, Genine DellaValle, Agnes Icker, Laura Johannsen, Rebecca Jones, Christina Fede (Kallanxhi), Kim Shay, and Sarah Veniero
