Orton-Gillingham Classes are now offered by the same group of professionals that have been teaching in the Twin Cities area for years. Jackie Dimmen, Kathy Fears, Mary Platt, Karen Sonday, Arlene Sonday, and Hannah Tolles are pleased to have formed a new organization that continues their commitment to quality, research-based teacher training. Additional board members include Deb Martin, Rose Schaeppi and Arlene Timm.

The mission of Orton-Gillingham of Minnesota is to provide scientifically based reading research instruction and supervised practicum experience in the Orton-Gillingham Approach to teaching reading, spelling and writing.

The Orton-Gillingham Teacher Training Classes levels I, II, III will be held at Groves Academy in St. Louis Park from 9:00am to 2:00pm beginning Friday, June 18 and then M-F, June 21-25 and M-Th, June 28 - July 1. The classes are open to teachers, tutors, and others and include 18 hours of practicum. Attendance at all sessions is required. More information will be available in March.

In conjunction with the teacher training, tutoring in reading and spelling is available for students with a reading grade level between 1st and 8th grade. Students will attend M-F, June 21-25 and M-Th, June 28 - July 1at either 9:30 OR 10:30. Students entering 1st grade will be accepted on a waiting list only. More information will be available in March.

Other Events Scheduled

Arlene Sonday received the Margaret Rawson Lifetime Achievement Award at the IDA International Conference this past November in Orlando, FL. Please join the instructors and board of directors for Orton Gillingham of Minnesota in offering our congratulations to Arlene.