Courses & Workshops for Teachers

The instructor is so engaging and knowledgeable. Her presentation is streamlined and contains so much great information.

The instructors at the Stern Center are stellar with a very clear, organized, and sequential method for sharing the research and strategies of the OG Approach. The practicum puts everything you have learned in class into practice with a master teacher by your side, guiding and supporting your lessons. You are asked to work hard, but once you see the results, you are fueled to work even harder! The team is extremely knowledgeable, experienced, and professional. This work has re-enlivened my work with students.

I have new ideas I can take back to use with my students immediately, and incorporate into my professional learning with teachers.

We can learn at our own pace. Having our lessons videotaped and critiqued is very helpful. Our Lead to Read instructor is always willing to help.

I loved that the instructor embraced approaches and programs, such as Orton-Gillingham, Wilson®, and Fundations®, and worked to help us integrate LiPS with what we’ve already learned.

The instructor did a FANTASTIC job of presenting very comprehensive information in an engaging and dynamic way. She was easy to understand even though some of the concepts were incredibly complex.

The course was clear, easy to understand, and packed with so much valuable information!

The instructor has such a huge wealth of knowledge to share and is a pro at making it accessible. This course provided so many points to consider.…Very helpful in making sense of what is going on for our students and how we can best serve them.

Introduction to Orton-Gillingham for Upper Grades was the most helpful class I’ve ever taken. I highly recommend this course for anyone looking to improve their literacy instruction. You will not be disappointed!

The instructor is very engaging and knowledgeable. I love collaborating with teachers from other schools…It is time well spent.

Our Lead to Read coach was very helpful and supportive throughout the year. She provided us with very useful resources and took the time to explain them. She made sure we felt supported and was willing to work with us and adjust deadlines if needed. Her communication was very effective, and she clearly knows the content!

Outstanding. This has been one of the most relevant professional development courses I have ever taken. Frankly, anyone who works with students with any form of learning disability needs this course!

This course was the most helpful class I’ve ever taken. It taught me how important it is for students to have a great foundation, and to master skills before moving on to new material. I highly recommend this course for anyone looking to improve their literacy instruction. You will not be disappointed!

The instructors were absolutely amazing and very knowledgeable in all areas of Orton-Gillingham. I would love to continue learning with the Stern Center—it was a great experience.

Thank you so much for a wonderful course! I learned so much! Not only do I feel more knowledgeable about providing scientific-based reading instruction, I feel re-energized…I can’t tell you how much I appreciated the depth, substance, and quality of the class content and teaching strategies that you provided!

The course offered tons of information and resources to help me do my job better, and provided a thorough review of concepts!

Our coach is always so positive and encouraging. She looks for things we do well and offers strategies or tips to help us rise to the next level of instruction.

The workshop was clear, easy to understand, and packed with so much valuable information.

I am grateful for the opportunity to learn and grow with a large community of educators. I think the networking aspect was vital.

The instructors are both so knowledgeable and passionate about their work.

The instructor has such a deep understanding of the English language. She is able to seamlessly break down and explain these concepts, and connect them to literacy skills and instruction. Learning about the layers of the English Language and how it connects to spelling is truly eye-opening for me.

The depth of information presented was incredible! I learned so much I didn’t know about the structure of the English language, which is not only helpful for my own understanding but will transform the way I teach reading.

This is the best teacher training for teaching reading I have ever received!!! The instructor is very engaging and knowledgeable [and] I love collaborating with teachers from other schools.

The workshop was an amazing learning experience and helped improve my performance at work. Every teacher and specialist will definitely benefit from taking this course.

This Orton-Gillingham journey has been tremendously helpful to my practice and my students. I have learned more under the guidance of your instructors over the past years than in my undergraduate and graduate degrees combined.

I was so excited to walk into my classroom following each class and use something immediately!

This course was engaging and the instructors did a fabulous job of organizing and sharing material in a way that made lots of learning possible in a relatively short period of time.

The instructor is brilliant and has a WEALTH of knowledge. She’s kind and a natural, patient teacher! She takes her time with you but also honors your time. I could talk to her for hours about Orton-Gillingham because I always learn so much from her!

The course was very clear and easy to follow. It included good examples, and I liked how we had to create our own lesson.

This course was not only led by amazing instructors who were there to support me every step of the way, but it was also life-changing for me. It helped me understand my students more and the strategies I can use to support their individual needs.

The course included many practical examples that I can use in my teaching right away.

Outstanding…It is the best assessment course I’ve taken, and I learned enough to know that I want to know more!

This course has given me concrete steps to move forward in my teaching.

My training with the Stern Center has been outstanding. I have learned a ton, but one of the most important things is that there is always more to learn! Thank you!

I now have so many new and great ideas for how to improve my teaching. I learned so much in this course and I am excited to keep fine-tuning and improving my teaching.

Our instructor is AMAZING!!! She is incredibly knowledgeable, engaging, informative, funny, supportive, and simply the best. I would LOVE to take more classes with her!

After taking this class and knowing Orton-Gillingham has been around for a really long time, I can’t believe that we, as special educators, aren’t trained to teach reading this way. I feel very fortunate to be in a district where we are implementing a schoolwide Orton-Gillingham Approach to reading. One of our kindergarten teachers, who has been teaching for 13 years, said her students made the most progress she had seen last year using the approach.

I like that the information taught to us is in-depth and that we are given examples of what the practices look like in a classroom. It is much easier for me to apply a strategy/instructional approach once I see it modeled and explained.

Before Orton-Gillingham, I’m not sure I could answer every question that my students asked about spelling and decoding. OG opened my eyes to the origins of our language, how and why syllables and words fit together, which patterns worked most of the time, and why, and which syllable types were most common and why. This knowledge has absolutely changed my teaching in a positive way.

I loved all of the resources! The content and activities shared in the course are invaluable. Thank you.

It was a very engaging and interactive course. The instructor has a warm presence that made me feel comfortable participating!

The course was so professionally organized and thoughtful. The instructors made excellent use of the time. They did an incredible job of engaging people in the online environment.