Writing Workshop (Virtual)
Workshop | Available
Writing, like reading, is a broad term. Under the writing umbrella, we find many important and critical areas for student success. This workshop will focus on the ways we use words to compose sentences and paragraphs. At the sentence level, attendees will work with the parts of a sentence and various sentence structures. Moving from sentences to paragraphs, attendees will focus on generating ideas, organizing thoughts, drafting content, and the editing process. This is a 15 hour course that satisfies some of the coursework requirement at the Clinical Level of certification with the Orton-Gillingham Academy.
- Prerequisite: None but some Orton-Gillingham coursework is preferred.
- Course Dates: June 8-10
- Course Times: 8:30 am to 2:30 pm EST
- Location: Delivered Virtually
- Instructor: Jen Burch, F/OGA & Laura Dryer Associate/OGA
- CEUs: 1.5
***Due to the duration of summer courses, payment plans are not available***
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.
Laura Dreyer
Dr. Laura Dreyer is a teacher and professional learning facilitator at The Schenck School in Atlanta, Georgia. Before moving to Atlanta, Laura worked at The Windward School in New York as a teacher and staff developer. For almost two decades, Laura has supported students with language-based learning disabilities, their teachers, and their parents through classes, presentations, mentoring, and private tutoring. She earned certification from the International Multisensory Structured Language Education Council (IMSLEC) at the teaching level and the Orton-Gillingham Academy at the associate level. Laura has a master's degree in literacy and completed a doctorate in curriculum and instruction through the University of Florida.