Professional Development

Professional development workshops are scheduled throughout the year. Check our website calendar for dates, descriptions, and registration.

Take Flight/Rite Flight Training

Are MSL curriculums developed at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital in Dallas, TX. Research demonstrates that students with the lowest reading skills made the strongest gains from Take Flight Instruction.

RAVE-O

RAVE-O® is a small-group, evidence-based literacy intervention curriculum for students in grades 2–4, which empowers them to read text deeply to build new knowledge, develop new ideas, and reach new levels of reading achievement.

  • Accelerates learning

  • Prevents and closes the reading achievement gap

  • Improves student performance across key literacy domains

  • Promotes fluency, comprehension, and deep reading

  • Progress monitored through ongoing, informal assessments

Early Childhood

Reading Readiness

In 20 to 30 minutes a day, students learn the fundamentals of reading through fun, multisensory activities. The Reading Readiness manual contains five sections that are used concurrently in the planning of daily lessons and masters for all supplemental materials. A deck of alphabet sound cards is included. Activities included in the manual teach:

  • Instant letter recognition skills

  • Phonological awareness

  • Oral language skills

  • Sound-symbol correspondences

  • Handwriting

Math Interventions

Semple Math

Semple Math is a basic skill mathematics program for students of all ages and all learning abilities. It uses ordered sequences of associative mnemonics in order to embed an accurate understanding of math concepts and skills in the long-term memory of our students.