Course Overview
Fundations®
Wilson Fundations Levels K–3 Launch Workshops
Our Fundations® Launch Workshops will provide you with the practice and guidance to effectively begin teaching Fundations® in your school. This scientifically based program teaches foundational literacy skills and significantly supports reading, writing, speaking, and language standards found in most states’ rigorous college- and career-ready guidelines. It addresses all five areas of reading instruction with an emphasis on systematic phonics and word structure.
Who is this course for?
This program is designed for classroom teachers, specialists, interventionists, and paraprofessionals who are implementing Fundations in their K–3 classrooms or schools.
Course description
Fundations® Launch Workshops provide the practice and guidance needed to effectively begin teaching the Fundations® curriculum at the selected Level. Each full day workshop is highly interactive and designed to allow for teacher input and active engagement via activities and discussions. Each workshop covers an overview of the program, a dive into the materials and resources needed to teach Fundations® at the selected Level, a look at how to use the Teacher’s Manual, practice planning a lesson, and ends with a chance to debrief and look at “next steps” that will help participants kickoff their Fundations® instruction.
Course Objectives and Outcomes
Upon completion of each workshop, participants are able to:
- Identify the skills taught in Fundations®:
- Fundations® Kindergarten and Level 1: print awareness; phonological awareness; phonemic awareness and the alphabetic principle; sound mastery; phonics; vocabulary; high frequency/trick words; fluency; comprehension strategies; handwriting, spelling, and punctuation;
- Levels 2 and 3: phonics and word study; vocabulary; high frequency/trick words; fluency; comprehension strategies; handwriting, spelling, and punctuation;
- Understand the principles of instruction: explicit, sequential, and cumulative instruction that engages multiple learning modalities using multisensory instruction, repetition, and immediate, specific feedback;
- Identify and understand the use of all materials in the Fundations® Teacher’s Kit, and have a sense of how to find and use the many extended resources available in the Prevention/Early Intervention Learning Community for Fundations® (membership included with participation in this workshop);
- Use the Teacher’s Manual to prepare a daily learning plan and practice lesson activity procedures; and
- Visualize the flow and pace of a full Fundations® lesson completed with fidelity.
Who is this course for?
These workshops are designed for classroom teachers, specialists, interventionists, and paraprofessionals who are implementing Fundations® in their K–3 classrooms or schools.
Which workshop should you attend?
- Teachers should attend the workshop Level that corresponds to the program Level being implemented.
- However, if you are implementing multiple levels, we do not always recommend attending more than one workshop. Please reach out to us at proflearning@sterncenter.org to discuss which workshops will be the best fit for your professional learning needs.
- It is recommended that Tier 2 teachers complete the Fundations® Intervention, Progress Monitoring and Fluency Workshop offered by Wilson Language Training. Visit the Wilson website at www.wilsonlanguage.com. Please note the Intervention Workshop is not currently available in a virtual format by Wilson.
Required Materials
- Fundations kits: A Fundations® kit is not required to attend a workshop, but you should have your kit with you if you have one.
- Fundations® kits are not included in the price of these workshops.
- If you are interested in purchasing a Fundations® kit, please contact Wilson Language Training. The Stern Center does not sell or provide Fundations® kits.
- Presentation materials: You will access materials electronically on the Wilson website.
NUMBER OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT HOURS:
4 hours for each level
Dates
One-Day Fundations® Workshop:
2024
Level 1: Nov. 1
Level 2: Nov. 22
Level 3: Dec. 6
2025
Level K: Mar. 28
Level 1: Apr. 24
Level 2: Apr. 25
Level 3: May 2
If a workshop shows “closed” please contact jconant@sterncenter.org to check on availability.
Time
9:00 AM–2:30 PM EST
Course Number(s)
Level K: 1498 (Spring)
Level 1: 1499 (Fall) 1512 (Spring)
Level 2: 1500 (Fall) 1513 (Spring)
Level 3: 1501 (Fall) 1514 (Spring)
Location and Format
Cost
$330
Grade Level
Audience
Kristy Wysong, M.S.Ed.
Wilson® Credentialed Trainer
Catrina Hays
Wilson® Credentialed Trainer
What Teachers Have to Say
Meet the Instructor(s)
Kristy Wysong, M.S.Ed.
Wilson® Credentialed Trainer
Kristy received a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science from Auburn University in Elementary Education. She has been teaching for 33 years and taught grades 1–4, focusing the last 12 years on teaching reading to struggling students and students with dyslexia. She is an in-district and on-call trainer for the Wilson Language Training company. She has been trained in Orton-Gillingham from the Michigan Dyslexia Institute and the Institute for Multi-Sensory Education.
Catrina Hays
Wilson® Credentialed Trainer
Catrina received her BS from Northwestern University’s School of Speech and then her MA from the University of Arizona. She has taught students with dyslexia aged 5 through 19 using the Wilson Reading System for 22 years. She has been a Wilson Language Trainer since 2004 and works both for the local partnership, Learning Techniques, […]
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