Events sponsored by Decoding Dyslexia CA (DDCA) are indicated on the events calendar. Local events held by other organizations may also be listed that may be of interest to our members. DDCA does not endorse any specific program or company.
The International Dyslexia Association, Los Angeles Branch, would like to invite you to participate in our 4th annual conference on March 5, 2016 from 8:00 am – 5:00 pm at UCLA. The day will include opportunities for various breakout sessions lead by experts in the fields related to learning differences. We expect the conference to bring together over 200 parents, teachers and other professionals all interested in learning more about dyslexia and related learning issues.
We are thrilled to present Dr. Nancy Mather as our 2016 Keynote Speaker and we are in the process of securing our breakout session speakers. We know that the event will be a wonderful learning experience for all attendees.
Click here for the brochure.
Dyslexia is the most common learning difference (1 in 5 kids have it), yet the most publicly misunderstood. Please join us for a film screening of “The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia,” a film directed by James Redford. The film recounts the experiences of children and young adults with dyslexia, including Redford’s son, Dylan, and features interviews with highly successful individuals with dyslexia, such as Sir Richard Branson, Gavin Newsom, Charles Schwab, and David Boies.
The film will be followed by a panel discussion with dyslexia experts.
This is a FREE event, open to the public.
EdRev (Education Revolution) is a unique day of information, resources, celebration and community for students who learn differently and the families and professionals who support them. Join Parents Education Network (PEN) to celebrate the seventh annual Education Revolution, EdRev 2016.
PEN is a coalition of parents collaborating with educators, students and the community to empower and bring academic and life success to students with learning and attention differences.
EdRev 2016: Reimagine the Learning Journey will give you the chance to experience :
- Information: Learn from renowned speakers presenting their work from the cutting edge of learning science
- Resources: Explore a diverse range of resources presented by tech companies, service providers, schools, colleges and support organizations
- Celebration: Experience an atmosphere where students’ strengths are celebrated and the stigma of LD disappears
- Community: Connect with parents, educators and students who are all on the same journey as you
EdRev brings you:
- The latest technology that supports learning
- A wide range of informative, relevant workshops
- Music and outdoor activities for students
- Over 100 exhibitors in the School and Career Fair, Testing and Solution Center, and the Community Corner.
- Student Art Gallery and hands-on activities in the Creativity Unleashed! section
Don’t miss this unique national event for students who learn differently and the families and professionals who support them!
Click here for the flyer
- What is decoding and encoding in math?
- Why is my child/student so confused?
- Why is my child/student losing confidence in math?
- Why is my child/student becoming anxious about math?
- Why is it so hard for me to help my child/ student in math?
Parents and educators are invited to this dynamic and innovative free seminar presented by David Berg, educational therapist and founder/director of the Making Math Real Institute. The focus of this free seminar will be on the important role of decoding and encoding for math comprehension, one of the most valuable developments to help your child/student be successful in math.
Just as students must learn to decode and encode the alphabetic code to read and spell, so too, must students learn to decode and encode the codes of math to understand and apply the mathematics. Math is a series of interconnected codes – a symbolic shorthand to express what is real. All math content from kindergarten through calculus is comprised of these interconnected codes. If students (and teachers) understand the codes, they will be successful in math. If the codes are not taught or are incorrectly taught, students are likely to be confused and struggle unnecessarily in math.
Come to this free seminar for the answers to these questions and more. We look forward to seeing you there.
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DATE: Saturday, May 14, 2016
TIME: 9am-12pm
LOCATION: Black Pine Circle Upper School
2016 Seventh Street at University Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94710 (Please do not call the school)
PARKING: Please park on the street in the neighborhood of the school and be respectful of the neighbor’s driveways — thank you. There is no parking lot for Black Pine Circle School, but there is no time-limit for street parking in the area, as long as you are not parked at a meter.
COST: FREE! Pre-registration is required due to limited space (see below)
HOW TO REGISTER WITH MAKING MATH REAL: This event is free and open to the public, but pre- registration is mandatory. Please email info@makingmathreal.org with your name and the number of people that will attend, in order to reserve your space at the Free Seminar.
THERE IS NO CHILDCARE FOR THIS EVENT.
If you can’t attend this current event, you may be interested in the summer workshops. Click Here for the flyer!
MUST PRE-REGISTER THROUGH EVENTBRITE
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/structured-word-inquiry-training-tickets-22745670914
- WHEN:
- Saturday, May 14, 2016 from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM (PDT)
- WHERE:
- California State University East Bay Concord Campus – 4700 Ygnacio Valley Road Room: AS 202, Concord, CA 94521 – View Map
Click on the link below for more information pertaining to this training.
Welcome to the Nueva Structured Word Inquiry Institute
with Pete Bowers
Nothing motivates learning like understanding!
Join educators from the Bay Area and beyond in one of three options for lively workshops that enable you to teach students how to read and spell through a structured inquiry approach. You will experience the same joy of understanding spelling that students around the world gain from scientific investigation of how the written word works to link families of words related in meaning.
Emily Kolatch, Nueva Head of Lower School on SWI
“I believe that work we’ve begun doing with Structured Word Inquiry is profound and revolutionary. I believe that it is relevant to educators who work in every discipline and with all age groups. I believe that it represents most accurately what we know about teaching and learning and enacts the core values held in our community.”
The above is taken from Emily’s short article on SWI at Nueva in the Nueva Journal. See her full article. Links to further SWI articles in that journal are below.
Forget memorization — focus on the joy of understanding
When we understand how to read and spell words like <does>, <know>, <sign>, <business>, <rough>, <scientific>, or <consciousness> by exploring the conventions that drive these spellings and how spelling structures link words of related meaning, there is no need to memorize them. Systemic understanding is never about one thing at at time. In SWI we study words to make sense of the system — and thus we gain the knowledge to make sense of words we have not yet encountered.
Consider these statements from three different Grade 1 parents at Nueva this year:
“Thanks you all for fueling the curiosity and fun! you are making such a difference for us. I would never have dreamed that my kids would come home excited about spelling and investigating words. Seeing all their torn post-it notes making words they want to know more about makes me melt!”
“…[m]y son had a playdate after school… according to the nanny, the kids spent much of the time teaching her about Structured Word Inquiry.”
“Working on SWI can take you to infinity.”
These are responses to studying spelling.
Background on the Nueva SWI Summer Institutes
The Nueva SWI Summer Institutes have become an annual part of Nueva’s summer institutes, along with their well known Design Thinking and Social Emotional Learning Institutes. These workshops have become central not only to the learning of Nueva teachers, but to the learning of the wider community.
Read an article on these SWI Summer Institutes from the latest Nueva Journal.
Click the links below for more articles on SWI in this Nueva Journal.
Structured Word Inquiry: Moving from Spelling to Critical Thinking
Investigating Calendar Roots
SWI in First Grade — Hypothesizing <cardiovascular>
Peter Bowers, PhD, and founder of WordWorks Literacy Centre, is currently a visiting scholar at Nueva, supporting structured word inquiry from pre-school to high school. This Nueva Institute marks the culmination of his year working with teachers and students from pre-school to high school at Nueva. Take advantage of the studying about the learning going on at Nueva this year before Pete returns to his work as an independent consultant — with his next workshops already booked in Melbourne, Bangkok and the UK in the fall!
Peter taught elementary school for 10 years. His research on the effects of morphological instruction has been published in top journals and he has worked with schools around the world. Pete shares this engaging approach by using inquiry-led classroom activities to clearly demonstrate how English spelling is actually a well-ordered system that does make sense.
Pete’s About WordWorks page has a lot of links for getting started and links to his published research including THIS accessible 4-page paper in the International Dyslexia Association journal.
To see the kind of learning currently going on at Nueva from the early years to Grade 11, visit THIS new Investigations forum on Real Spellers.
Welcome to the Nueva Structured Word Inquiry Institute
with Pete Bowers
Nothing motivates learning like understanding!
Join educators from the Bay Area and beyond in one of three options for lively workshops that enable you to teach students how to read and spell through a structured inquiry approach. You will experience the same joy of understanding spelling that students around the world gain from scientific investigation of how the written word works to link families of words related in meaning.
Emily Kolatch, Nueva Head of Lower School on SWI
“I believe that work we’ve begun doing with Structured Word Inquiry is profound and revolutionary. I believe that it is relevant to educators who work in every discipline and with all age groups. I believe that it represents most accurately what we know about teaching and learning and enacts the core values held in our community.”
The above is taken from Emily’s short article on SWI at Nueva in the Nueva Journal. See her full article. Links to further SWI articles in that journal are below.
Forget memorization — focus on the joy of understanding
When we understand how to read and spell words like <does>, <know>, <sign>, <business>, <rough>, <scientific>, or <consciousness> by exploring the conventions that drive these spellings and how spelling structures link words of related meaning, there is no need to memorize them. Systemic understanding is never about one thing at at time. In SWI we study words to make sense of the system — and thus we gain the knowledge to make sense of words we have not yet encountered.
Consider these statements from three different Grade 1 parents at Nueva this year:
“Thanks you all for fueling the curiosity and fun! you are making such a difference for us. I would never have dreamed that my kids would come home excited about spelling and investigating words. Seeing all their torn post-it notes making words they want to know more about makes me melt!”
“…[m]y son had a playdate after school… according to the nanny, the kids spent much of the time teaching her about Structured Word Inquiry.”
“Working on SWI can take you to infinity.”
These are responses to studying spelling.
Background on the Nueva SWI Summer Institutes
The Nueva SWI Summer Institutes have become an annual part of Nueva’s summer institutes, along with their well known Design Thinking and Social Emotional Learning Institutes. These workshops have become central not only to the learning of Nueva teachers, but to the learning of the wider community.
Read an article on these SWI Summer Institutes from the latest Nueva Journal.
Click the links below for more articles on SWI in this Nueva Journal.
Structured Word Inquiry: Moving from Spelling to Critical Thinking
Investigating Calendar Roots
SWI in First Grade — Hypothesizing <cardiovascular>
Peter Bowers, PhD, and founder of WordWorks Literacy Centre, is currently a visiting scholar at Nueva, supporting structured word inquiry from pre-school to high school. This Nueva Institute marks the culmination of his year working with teachers and students from pre-school to high school at Nueva. Take advantage of the studying about the learning going on at Nueva this year before Pete returns to his work as an independent consultant — with his next workshops already booked in Melbourne, Bangkok and the UK in the fall!
Peter taught elementary school for 10 years. His research on the effects of morphological instruction has been published in top journals and he has worked with schools around the world. Pete shares this engaging approach by using inquiry-led classroom activities to clearly demonstrate how English spelling is actually a well-ordered system that does make sense.
Pete’s About WordWorks page has a lot of links for getting started and links to his published research including THIS accessible 4-page paper in the International Dyslexia Association journal.
To see the kind of learning currently going on at Nueva from the early years to Grade 11, visit THIS new Investigations forum on Real Spellers.
Welcome to the Nueva Structured Word Inquiry Institute
with Pete Bowers
Nothing motivates learning like understanding!
Join educators from the Bay Area and beyond in one of three options for lively workshops that enable you to teach students how to read and spell through a structured inquiry approach. You will experience the same joy of understanding spelling that students around the world gain from scientific investigation of how the written word works to link families of words related in meaning.
Emily Kolatch, Nueva Head of Lower School on SWI
“I believe that work we’ve begun doing with Structured Word Inquiry is profound and revolutionary. I believe that it is relevant to educators who work in every discipline and with all age groups. I believe that it represents most accurately what we know about teaching and learning and enacts the core values held in our community.”
The above is taken from Emily’s short article on SWI at Nueva in the Nueva Journal. See her full article. Links to further SWI articles in that journal are below.
Forget memorization — focus on the joy of understanding
When we understand how to read and spell words like <does>, <know>, <sign>, <business>, <rough>, <scientific>, or <consciousness> by exploring the conventions that drive these spellings and how spelling structures link words of related meaning, there is no need to memorize them. Systemic understanding is never about one thing at at time. In SWI we study words to make sense of the system — and thus we gain the knowledge to make sense of words we have not yet encountered.
Consider these statements from three different Grade 1 parents at Nueva this year:
“Thanks you all for fueling the curiosity and fun! you are making such a difference for us. I would never have dreamed that my kids would come home excited about spelling and investigating words. Seeing all their torn post-it notes making words they want to know more about makes me melt!”
“…[m]y son had a playdate after school… according to the nanny, the kids spent much of the time teaching her about Structured Word Inquiry.”
“Working on SWI can take you to infinity.”
These are responses to studying spelling.
Background on the Nueva SWI Summer Institutes
The Nueva SWI Summer Institutes have become an annual part of Nueva’s summer institutes, along with their well known Design Thinking and Social Emotional Learning Institutes. These workshops have become central not only to the learning of Nueva teachers, but to the learning of the wider community.
Read an article on these SWI Summer Institutes from the latest Nueva Journal.
Click the links below for more articles on SWI in this Nueva Journal.
Structured Word Inquiry: Moving from Spelling to Critical Thinking
Investigating Calendar Roots
SWI in First Grade — Hypothesizing <cardiovascular>
Peter Bowers, PhD, and founder of WordWorks Literacy Centre, is currently a visiting scholar at Nueva, supporting structured word inquiry from pre-school to high school. This Nueva Institute marks the culmination of his year working with teachers and students from pre-school to high school at Nueva. Take advantage of the studying about the learning going on at Nueva this year before Pete returns to his work as an independent consultant — with his next workshops already booked in Melbourne, Bangkok and the UK in the fall!
Peter taught elementary school for 10 years. His research on the effects of morphological instruction has been published in top journals and he has worked with schools around the world. Pete shares this engaging approach by using inquiry-led classroom activities to clearly demonstrate how English spelling is actually a well-ordered system that does make sense.
Pete’s About WordWorks page has a lot of links for getting started and links to his published research including THIS accessible 4-page paper in the International Dyslexia Association journal.
To see the kind of learning currently going on at Nueva from the early years to Grade 11, visit THIS new Investigations forum on Real Spellers.