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Mrs. Thorstenson from Highlands Ranch CO is requesting professional development through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Professional development

Orton-Gillingham Teacher Training to Impact Our Most At-Risk K-3 Students!

I need IMSE Orton-Gillingham Comprehensive Plus Training and their included resources to provide my dyslexic and at-risk K-3 students an engaging, evidence-based, multisensory intervention focused on the five pillars of literacy!

  • $1,827 goal

This project expired on February 12, 2023.

This project expired on February 12, 2023.

My Project

As a public school reading interventionist for grades K-6, I want to be able to provide each of my students with a solid literacy intervention curriculum that closes their gaps and launches them into academic and future success. Gathering assessments, graphing the data, and creating engaging daily lesson activities for my youngest struggling readers is both time-consuming and exhausting.

IMSE Orton-Gillingham Comprehensive Training would equip me with the best strategies, lessons, assessment tools, and multisensory materials needed to effectively intervene with at-risk K-3 students.

Additionally, completing this 30-hour training would provide the prerequisites needed for me to be eligible to take further training with IMSE - their Practicum Level Coursework - which would allow and prepare me to take the KPEERI exam for CERI (Center for Effective Reading Instruction) certification under the IDA (International Dyslexia Association). Someday, I may wish to pay it forward and make an even greater impact in my community by using this training to train other teachers in these evidence-based best practices!

Mrs. Thorstenson
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Component Company Total
Activity IMSE - Institute for Multi-sensory Education $1,500.00

Trip cost

$1,500.00

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$22.50

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,552.50

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$273.97

Total project goal

$1,826.47

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