Professional Development
for Montessori Schools and Training Centers

Presentation can be tailored to parents or teachers depending on the audience. Overview of what dyslexia is and what Orton-Gillingham instruction looks like. 

In depth exploration of Phonological Awareness and Phonemic Awareness for Children's House and Lower Elementary guides

Building on Montessori lessons, this presentation focuses on the most common prefixes, suffixes, and roots in order to unlock thousands of new words.

Overview of six types of syllables and introduction to syllable division to improve decoding and spelling skills.

Strategies for summarizing, researching, and editing reports in the Montessori elementary including various graphic organizers to provide support for writing and avoid copying. 

Explicit ways to teach spelling generalizations based on the Orton-Gillingham approach. Don't waste precious class time on ineffective spelling lists just because you are at a loss as to what else to do. 

Thorough, non-clinical explanation of executive dysfunction and what executive functioning supports a teacher and parents can use and strategies for addressing challenging behavior

Anyone, even those with little to no musical experience, can bring ukulele into the elementary classroom