The Region 4 Dyslexia team offers targeted professional learning sessions to support effective implementation of Reading by Design®, a systematic, explicit, and intensive literacy intervention for K–12 students. These sessions are designed for teachers, interventionists, and administrators to deepen instructional practice, ensure fidelity, and adapt the program to meet diverse student needs.

Professional Learning Offerings Include:

  • Reading by Design Administrator Training – Learn how to observe and support implementation with confidence.

  • Refreshing Your Reading by Design Instruction – Revisit core strategies and enhance your instructional delivery.

  • Adapting Reading by Design (Specially Designed Instruction) – Tailor instruction to meet the needs of students served through special education.

  • Reading by Design Bridge Training for Dyslexia Interventionists – Transition from another dyslexia program into Reading by Design with focused guidance and support.

For details about these offerings, or to request customized professional development, email dyslexia@esc4.net.


 

Events

Events found: 11
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Thursday, July 31
RbD Delving Deeper Series: Successful Implementation in the Secondary Classroom

Session ID : 1891753

Learn how to adapt Reading by Design® for secondary students by exploring age-appropriate strategies and adjustments that support effective implementation.

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Thursday, August 7
Refreshing your Reading by Design Instruction

This virtual refresher session helps experienced Reading by Design® educators reconnect with the program, refine their instructional practices, and gain new strategies to enhance dyslexia intervention.

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Thursday, August 7
RbD Delving Deeper Series: Instructional Decision Making 2.0 – The Power of the Sticky Note

Session ID : 1881405

Discover practical ways to use data and simple tools to personalize instruction, with strategies tailored for twice-exceptional, emergent bilingual, and young students.

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Tuesday, August 12
RbD Delving Deeper Series: Volume 5, From Morphological Form to Fun: It’s All Greek to Me!

Session ID : 1902140

Explore engaging strategies for implementing Volume 5 to help students develop fluency, vocabulary, and word study skills through meaningful, morphology-based instruction.

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Tuesday, August 12
RbD Delving Deeper Series: Spelling and Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping

Session ID : 1908113

Take a deeper dive into spelling instruction with phoneme-grapheme mapping, SOS procedures, and multisensory strategies to strengthen student connections between sounds and letters.

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Wednesday, August 13
Getting Ready for Reading by Design- Introduction to Vol. 0

This session introduces Volume 0 of Reading by Design, a set of 20 lessons that build foundational literacy skills for students needing support before beginning formal intervention.

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