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Building Sustainability

When last year’s national test scores showed that two thirds of the country’s fourth graders were reading below proficiency, educators in Chippewa Falls, WI, were well aware of this persistent,...

A Leap of Faith

Pat Shafer retired in 2016, but that didn’t stop her from teaching. Following two decades as a reading teacher in public and parochial schools, the idea of no longer sharing...

Celebrating Teachers & Mothers

Wilson® Dyslexia Practitioner (W.D.P.) Holly Keple, a first-grade Fundations® teacher at a public elementary school in New Jersey, shares how the love of teaching spans generations in her family. In...

Children’s Privacy Notice

Wilson Language Training Corporation (WLT) is providing this Children’s Privacy Notice to parents of children under the age of 13 to help inform their decisions about providing permission to collect...

University of Utah Reading Clinic

In Utah, Michele Blake, Grace Craig, and Holly Dean are three in three million. The trio of educators at the University of Utah Reading Clinic (UURC) are Wilson® Credentialed Trainers...

Dreams Fulfilled

Forty summers ago in St. Louis, a handful of educators gathered with 21 struggling readers in donated classroom space and unknowingly launched a legacy. That first seven-week summer session for...

Programs

Our commitment to the science of reading and the science of implementation — combined with our high-quality Structured Literacy programs, comprehensive professional learning, and dyslexia expertise — creates a pathway...

Dyslexia Training

With more than three decades of experience, we know what it takes to successfully teach individuals with dyslexia to read and spell. Wilson® programs are aligned to Orton-Gillingham (O-G) principles...

Geodes® Classroom Libraries

Available in Levels K, 1, and 2 to align with the Fundations scope and sequence.Geodes books provide an authentic reading experience that builds content knowledge about science, history, and the...

Text Types in Early Reading

In the ever-evolving landscape of early reading instruction, the careful selection of texts plays a pivotal role in shaping the developmental path of students. This review discusses three text types...

Wilson at Work in New York City Public Schools

Our mission is to provide teachers with the skills and tools needed to help their students become fluent, independent readers. Our multimodal, structured reading and spelling curricula, Fundations®, Just Words®,...

Raising Scores, Opening Doors

A persistent parent. A determined school psychologist. A responsive administration and school board. When these forces converged in the rural Georgetown-Ridge Farm School District in Georgetown, IL, something extraordinary happened....

Early Learners Rise and Shine

For five minutes every weekday morning, Nancy Close is upstaged in her pre-kindergarten classroom by a tiny owl puppet perched on the end of a ruler. “Baby Echo is much...

Together Again: The Wilson® Trainer Meeting

This summer, Wilson Language Training® hosted its first in-person Wilson® Trainer Meeting since the COVID-19 pandemic began. More than 200 Wilson® Credentialed Trainers (W.C.T.) gathered at the beautiful Seaport Hotel in Boston, MA,...

Presenter Development

Presenter Development provides a district with the opportunity to effectively deliver workshops for new teachers or to expand implementation at significantly reduced costs. Fundations® Presenters are skilled Facilitators with deep programmatic knowledge...