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The following is an excerpt from an article printed in Columbia Metropolitan Magazine's May 2007 issue...
E is for Excellence A glimpse into the future of Independent Schools
by Vicki Patterson Cannon
Glenforest School
Glenforest School offers a non-traditional learning program for children who learn in different ways. “All children have strengths; we simply have to determine how they learn and teach them that way,” says principal Dr. Gillian Barclay-Smith. “This year, we introduced a new remedial reading program — Project Read — to help children with dyslexia. Right now, we offer Project Read to elementary and middle school students. We plan to add the writing component to this curriculum. Project Read identifies where the language breakdown is for each child — when language started not making sense. That is the springboard from which we begin teaching. By December of 2006, each child who started the program in August had made a one-year gain,” Gillian says with pride. She understands the importance of technology. “Technology is the world in which our students live. Next year, all middle school children will receive kid laptops. Many students are dysgraphic; they have trouble with handwriting. For dysgraphic children, their handwriting is illegible, writing is difficult and labored and they become frustrated. Many students will start to bloom once the handwriting obstacle is out of the way,” she concludes.
Click here to read an article written about Project Read® Program in the Leesville Daily Leader newspaper from Leesville, LA.
Personal Testimonials...
Thank you so much for the training and support you gave us. The teachers are equipped and energized for teaching writing. Specifically, the teachers are excited about the solid, basic structure of writing that Project Read Written Expression teaches, combined with the multi-sensory approach of the symbols that aids in learning and remembering the different parts of sentences. The teachers were also excited about the way that simple descriptions could be added and manipulated to make powerful sentences and paragraphs.
The teachers who went to the training have already shared it with our building writing committee, who has decided to implement it school-wide.
It seems to be filling a gap in our writing curriculum, providing a solid foundation to build on. Thanks again for the jump start to our writing!
The Project Read training, both Phonics and Written Expression, has been some of the best we’ve ever received!
-Kathleen Kwak
Harrah Elementary School, Harrah, WA
My son Anthony has successfully been learning from your Project Read program. Anthony was originally going to be labeled by the school staff as having a behavior problem and put into a behavior disabilities class. In my heart I knew he was a dyslexic child who was frustrated. In two short months after the Project Read program started, the child study team gathered at a meeting deciding to take away Anthony's behavior intervention plan because he no longer displayed the behaviors he had previously. I am grateful to have followed my heart and to have kind people such as you who develop programs that really work for children. The following is a poem that Anthony wrote and I thought you would enjoy. Thanks again!
-Dana Taboadela
Parent
Rockaway, NJ
Reading is fun. Reading is great! I can read the number eight (8). It's hard to read the number eight! Because you can't hear the sound it makes!
By: Anthony Taboadela, age 8
My sixteen year old son did not learn to read in first grade. I had him tutored over the summer by a friend who used Project Read materials. When he returned to school in the fall for 2nd grade, the school retested his reading. They stopped testing him at a 3rd grade level and placed him in the top 2nd grade reading group. He feels that Project Read was a miracle. After his experience I took a Project Read course and have used it successfully with the hard of hearing students I have taught. Every hearing impaired child I have put throught the Project Read program read at or above grade level. That, too, is a miracle! Thank you.
-Bernice Winthrop
This feeling of success, the acknowledgment that there is more than one way to learn, and the sense of control over their world allows Project Read students to maintain their inherent dignity.
-Dr. William Mester
Superintendent Snohomish School District 201
Snohomish, WA
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