Empowering Educators,
Transforming Classrooms
Chartwell Teaching Institute (CTI) offers professional development courses to educators who want to expand their knowledge base and incorporate evidence based practices in their classroom. At the heart of the institute is our week-long International Dyslexia Association (IDA) Accredited Structured Literacy Course. This workshop is based in the Science of Reading and offered at both the elementary and secondary levels for general education and special education teachers. We lead additional workshops that focus on supporting students in specific areas of learning, such as executive functioning, assistive technology, and social emotional academic development.
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Learning to read is so important and this course provides so much helpful information for implementing systematic, explicit, sequential, multi-sensory direct instruction. I can’t wait to use it in my classroom this year.
I would and will 100% recommend this course to others. This course is essential for reading teachers (all subjects require reading so all teachers should take it). It dives in deep to the why and how to teach reading, as well as real life examples of solid phonics instruction. Where our credential programs give the overview in order to pass RICA, this course goes much further and actually instructs teachers on how to.
You are all very human and sensitive to our backgrounds and what we need. I appreciate your attention to social-emotional learning. I was also fascinated by how much I did not know about reading, yet I have been teaching kids to read my entire career!
Featured Resources & Updates from CTI
The Latest in Teacher Training Research
NPR published an article in February 2024 about the lack of research-based methodology that’s used in teacher training programs across the country. Close to 700 teacher training programs were surveyed and they found that roughly 25% of teachers who leave those...
District Partnership Testimonial: Tana Piersall, principal of Etna Elementary, SVUSD
Tana Piersall, principal of Etna Elementary School from Scott Valley Unified School District, shares how the statewide Lead to Literacy grant and two years of partnering with CTI have provided students with research-based instruction that is drastically improving...
Strategies from the Classroom: Occupational Therapy Lens
Chartwell’s occupational therapists, Lisa Benjamin, and Katlyn Bach, share their insight into how occupational therapy can be used both in and out of the classroom. Their strategies for success, from the occupational therapy lens, include screen-free activities that...