Trainings & Affiliations

​

EDUCATION

• Brown University, B.A., 1998

• Tufts University, Masters in Child Development, 2003

• Lesley University, Masters in Education, 2006

 

CERTIFICATIONS

• Certified Member of the Academy of Orton-Gillingham Practitioners and Educators, 2003-present

• Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions, Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study in Literacy and Language, 2007

• State of Massachusetts Professional Licensure in Moderate Special Needs (PreK-9)

• State of Massachusetts Professional Licensure in English (5-8)

 

AFFILIATIONS 

• Board Member, International Dyslexia Association, Massachusetts Branch, 2017- present

• Communications Committee Chair, International Dyslexia Association, Massachusetts Branch, 2018-present
   

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Brookline Public Schools, MA: Special Education Teacher in a program for children with language-based learning disabilities (3-8th grade) + Teacher Trainer, 2014-2019

• Carroll School, Lincoln, MA: Language Arts teacher for middle school and Orton-Gillingham tutor, 2003-2014

• Atlanta International School, GA, 1998-2000
   

CURRICULUM/EDUCATION EXPERTISE

• Orton-Gillingham Approach

• Project Read: Report Form

• Project Read: Phonology

• Project Read: Framing Your Thoughts

• LindaMood-Bell: Seeing Stars

• LindaMood Phonemic Sequencing (LiPS) 

• Read Naturally

• Carroll School Writing Program (similar to Empower)  

 

ASSESSMENT EXPERTISE

• In/formal Observations and Interviews 

• Wechsler Individual Achievement Test (WIAT)

• Grey Oral Reading Test (GORT-4)

• Degrees of Reading Power (DRP)

• Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA)

• Test of Word Reading Efficiency (TOWRE)

• Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS)

• Running Records

• Informal Reading Inventory (IRI)

• Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests (WRMT)

• Vocabulary Test

• Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT)

• Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing (CTOPP)

• Expressive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test