During this event you will have an opportunity to learn, share and network with other district and online learning personnel. Whether you are currently running an online program or charged with exploring or starting an online program, this event will provide critical information for success including:

Hosted by Sedona Oak Creek Unified School District through support by K12 & Backbone Communications.

Sedona Red Rock High School Performing Arts Center

Date: March 7, 2012
Time: 9:30am-3:00pm
Place: Sedona Oak Creek USD
Red Rock High School Performing Arts Center
995 Upper Red Rock Loop Rd
Sedona, AZ 86336

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Who will benefit:

Superintendents, curriculum directors, technology coordinators and other district leaders with responsibility for online learning initiatives. Anyone may attend.

Wiki – There will be a live VSS conference wiki (located at http://vss11.wikispaces.com) to allow attendees to interact in real-time and engage in discussions about the trends, issues and programs discussed at the conference. Conference speakers are encouraged to upload copies of their presentations and any hand-outs on the wiki.

Webcasting – The VSS keynote addresses and break-out sessions being held in White River Ballroom G/H will be webcast live as well as be available for on-demand playback. In addition, the break-out sessions being held in Rooms 201/202, 203/204, 304/305, and Grand Ballrooms 1-4 will be recorded and be available for on-demand playback. The live webcast and on-demand recordings can be accessed at http://www.kzosites.com/inacol/.

Please join us for a webinar on world language content. We will present you with a new world language option to help you provide your students an engaging and interactive opportunity to acquire a world language. Courses include Spanish, French, Chinese, German, and Latin for students in grades 3-12. 

Our programs can be used to supplement your current textbook or serve as a standalone solution with your current teachers or use our highly qualified and certified teachers. This is also a perfect solution for your online virtual school.

Please contact us with any additional questions.

In this webinar educators will learn the answers to questions such as, “Have you ever had a student who could remember small details from a story but couldn’t recall larger, more-significant elements?” or “Have you ever had a student who understood instruction on Wednesday but on Thursday had virtually no recall of that instruction?” Teachers will also learn how to help students who understand a specific concept but who have significant difficulty connecting it to other related concepts. Teachers will learn the warning signs of working memory weakness and methods of instruction to help minimize the impact of those weaknesses.

This webinar will be presented by Jay Kelly who has over 17 years experience in teaching, writing and training. His current work focuses on training teachers to work with struggling readers, working one-on-one with reading students, and developing practical teaching strategies for struggling readers based on current neurological research. Jay holds an MA in Philosophy from the University of Oklahoma where his research centered around critical thinking processes, logic and philosophy of mind.

Thursday, January 26, 2012 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM MST

Students ages 10+ usually complete the program in 4-8 months while students ages 5-9 will typically succeed in 2-3 years.

The guarantee requires that a school implement the program with fidelity, including teacher training, direct instruction, and software reinforcement, and that all students who are tested complete the entire program.

If at the conclusion of the two years significant improvement in reading skills has not been realized, the school will have the option of returning the Reading Horizons or Discover Intensive Phonics for Yourself materials for a *refund.

Guarantee only honored upon entering into a written contract with Reading Horizons detailing the terms of the guarantee.

*Training costs are not reimbursed.

Up to 4 hours of Professional Development

This workshop uses Orton-Gillingham based principles to teach teachers and students how to build a foundation for successful reading. It is commonly known that 7 out of 10 students will learn to read no matter the reading program. This workshop is designed to help you reach the 30% of students who won’t learn to read and continue through school as struggling readers. You will learn to identify struggling readers and become a better reading coach and teacher no matter what your students’ grade level. 

You will learn strategies to improve state test scores, intervention strategies for students with Dyslexia and other Learning Disabilities, how to integrate Phonics into the everyday classroom, and come away with decoding skills used to systematically analyze and pronounce unknown words of any length. 

In addition, you will walk away with the following skills: 

• Grapheme-phoneme relationships used in the alphabetic code.
• Auditory discrimination and matching phonemes to their related graphemes.
• Sound blending and phonemic segmentation.
• Structural analysis used to identify word patterns.
• Diphthongs, digraphs , rules for Y/y, special vowel sounds.
• Decoding skills used to systematically analyze and pronounce unknown words of any length.
• Handling exceptions,
• Decoding and encoding strategies used in spelling and Much more!

CLICK HERE for a complete schedule and registration!

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Workshop Schedule: 

9:30 – 10:00am Check-In
10:00 – 11:45am Reading Intervention Workshop
11:45 – 12:30pm Lunch (provided by Backbone Communications)
12:30 – 2:00pm Reading Intervention Workshop




Location:
Cooperative Educational Services
4216 Balloon Park Rd NE
Albuquerque, NM 87109

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Up to 4 hours of Professional Development

This workshop uses Orton-Gillingham based principles to teach teachers and students how to build a foundation for successful reading. It is commonly known that 7 out of 10 students will learn to read no matter the reading program. This workshop is designed to help you reach the 30% of students who won’t learn to read and continue through school as struggling readers. You will learn to identify struggling readers and become a better reading coach and teacher no matter what your students’ grade level. 

You will learn strategies to improve state test scores, intervention strategies for students with Dyslexia and other Learning Disabilities, how to integrate Phonics into the everyday classroom, and come away with decoding skills used to systematically analyze and pronounce unknown words of any length. 

In addition, you will walk away with the following skills: 

• Grapheme-phoneme relationships used in the alphabetic code.
• Auditory discrimination and matching phonemes to their related graphemes.
• Sound blending and phonemic segmentation.
• Structural analysis used to identify word patterns.
• Diphthongs, digraphs , rules for Y/y, special vowel sounds.
• Decoding skills used to systematically analyze and pronounce unknown words of any length.
• Handling exceptions,
• Decoding and encoding strategies used in spelling and Much more!

CLICK HERE for a complete schedule and registration!

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Workshop Schedule: 

8:30 – 9:00am Check-In 
9:00 – 11:45am Reading Intervention Workshop 
11:45 – 12:30pm Lunch (provided by Backbone) 
12:30 – 2:00pm Reading Intervention Workshop



Location:
Gila County, AZ

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Up to 4 hours of Professional Development

This workshop uses Orton-Gillingham based principles to teach teachers and students how to build a foundation for successful reading. It is commonly known that 7 out of 10 students will learn to read no matter the reading program. This workshop is designed to help you reach the 30% of students who won’t learn to read and continue through school as struggling readers. You will learn to identify struggling readers and become a better reading coach and teacher no matter what your students’ grade level. 

You will learn strategies to improve state test scores, intervention strategies for students with Dyslexia and other Learning Disabilities, how to integrate Phonics into the everyday classroom, and come away with decoding skills used to systematically analyze and pronounce unknown words of any length. 

In addition, you will walk away with the following skills: 

• Grapheme-phoneme relationships used in the alphabetic code.
• Auditory discrimination and matching phonemes to their related graphemes.
• Sound blending and phonemic segmentation.
• Structural analysis used to identify word patterns.
• Diphthongs, digraphs , rules for Y/y, special vowel sounds.
• Decoding skills used to systematically analyze and pronounce unknown words of any length.
• Handling exceptions,
• Decoding and encoding strategies used in spelling and Much more!

CLICK HERE for a complete schedule and registration!

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Workshop Schedule: 

9:30 – 10:00am Check-In 
10:00 – 11:45am Reading Intervention Workshop 
11:45 – 12:30pm Lunch (provided by Backbone) 
12:30 – 2:00pm Reading Intervention Workshop



Location:
Mohave Accelerated Learning Center
625 Marina Blvd.
Bullhead City, AZ 86442
Google Map

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CLICK HERE for a complete schedule and registration!

Burlingame, CA—December 12, 2011—DynEd International, Inc., a leader in the English language learning solutions market, has made it’s award winning content available for iOS
compatible devices (iPad and iPhone). With the goal of providing DynEd-partner studentseasier access to their courseware, DynEd for iPad allows existing students the flexibility to increase their study time on a platform that travels with them.

“By making DynEd for iPad a free download, DynEd has extended the classroom to devices that travel with students,” said Ian Adam, DynEd’s CEO, “encouraging frequent, shorter
study sessions that increase language cognitive retention and improve English adoption success.”

The new iOS 4.2.1 version of DynEd features an updated, intuitive graphic interface that takes advantage of Apple’s touch screen navigation. The app uses existing users’ id and
password, allowing current DynEd student ‘s courseware to be downloaded onto the device and study time and results synchronized into existing Record Manger files.

A key differentiator for DynEd solutions is the blended delivery model. By coupling interactive English language learning software, which engages the student and adapts to individual needs, with live coaching, DynEd improves English language proficiency efficiently and effectively. Coaches use student study records to customize and personalize interaction, making lessons more meaningful and language more memorable. This focused coaching helps reinforce English retention and accelerates language acquisition.

About DynEd International

DynEd is a privately held English language learning solutions company. A pioneer in blended language learning, DynEd is delivered exclusively with support from licensed institutional providers including private and public schools, universities, leading corporations, training organizations, and government agencies in more than 50
countries. With users now numbering in the millions, DynEd courseware has won over 40 awards.

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DynEd
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