Certified Practicum 2025-2027 Cohort
Practicum | Registration opens 9/1/2025 12:00 AM EDT
*****BY INVITATION ONLY*****
An individual in the Certified Practicum will be mentored by a Fellow (or Fellow-in-Training) to expand his or her depth and breadth of knowledge about dyslexia. The Supervising Fellow (or Fellow-in-Training) will observe a 40-60 minute lesson on 10 separate occasions and provide written and verbal feedback as well as ongoing support over the course of two years. After completion of the practicum, the individual will be qualified to seek certification with The Orton-Gillingham Academy at the Certified Level.
Associate Level training with the Orton-Gillingham Academy is a prerequisite. Preferably would have Associate Level certification through OGA.
A payment plan is available for this practicum, consisting of a $300 deposit at registration and equal monthly payments of $203.66. These monthly payments, which include a 4% credit card fee, start on October 15th, 2025, and continue until October 15th, 2027.
Jen Burch
Jen has worked at Readsource for seven years, as an outreach program coordinator to remediate students in an underserved elementary school in Atlanta, a teacher trainer, and now as the Director of Academic Programs. Jen began her career as a molecular biologist at Emory University. It wasn’t until 2013, when her then second grade daughter was diagnosed with dyslexia, that she began her training in the Orton-Gillingham approach to better understand her child’s needs. Since then, Jen has become a Fellow with the Orton Gillingham Academy. She believes that the ability to read is a basic human right, and literacy is the great equalizer. In her role as Director of Academic Programs, her goal is to help ALL students read on grade level by strategically working to bring high-quality instruction based on the Orton Gillingham methodology to more teachers across the US and around the world.