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.

Orton-Gillingham Teacher Training Classes will be held at Groves Academy in St. Louis Park on Saturdays, October 3 and 10th, from 9:00 AM to 3:30 PM, and Tuesday nights, 5:30 to 9 PM, Oct. 6 through December 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 August.

In conjunction with the teacher training, tutoring in reading and spelling is available for students, who will attend Tuesday nights from Oct. 6 through Dec. 1. at either 6 PM or 7 PM. More information will be available in August.

Other Events Scheduled

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