Sustaining Slingerland Skills
Sustaining Slingerland Skills sessions focus on a particular aspect of the Slingerland Approach, the Slingerland lesson plan, structured literacy, and/or the science of reading. Sessions are intended for those who have completed at least the Introductory Comprehensive class or a corresponding Slingerland short class.
Sessions may be single day events or multi-day workshops.
All sessions are approved for IMSLEC credit hours. See descriptions for details.
Saturday Webinars
Nancy Cushen White, Ed.D., leads these three-hour sessions on a particular element of Structured Literacy and how to implement it through the Slingerland Approach.
Each follow-up will focus on a particular aspect of the Slingerland Approach, the Slingerland lesson plan, structured literacy, and/or the science of reading. Follow-up classes may include lecture, video presentations, discussion, and question-and-answer.
Classes are held virtually to offer this opportunity to the widest audience possible.
Workshops
Workshops are multi-day events that provide the opportunity to deepen and refine an educator's practice with elements of the Slingerland Approach from lesson planning to delivery of elements of instruction.
Workshops are highly interactive and arm teachers with a variety of strategies and practical tools to implement the Slingerland Approach.
Classes are held virtually and in-person.
Nancy Cushen White
Nancy Cushen White, Ed.D. has taught students in general and special education classrooms at public and independent schools, provided psycho-educational assessment and literacy intervention, trained pre- and in-service teachers and practitioners, developed curricula, and been involved in policy development.
She piloted a San Francisco Unified School District special day class for 2e—Twice Exceptional students—who were gifted learners and had a diagnosis of dyslexia.
She has taught young adults in a pre-trial diversion program through San Francisco Superior Court and worked as a Literacy Intervention Consultant and Case Manager for Lexicon Reading Center—Dubai—United Arab Emirates for 9 years.
Dr. Nancy Cushen White trains teachers in the Slingerland Multisensory (Multimodal) Structured Language Approach as a certified Instructor of Teaching for the Slingerland Literacy Institute.
