Structured Literacy for Special Education Academy (Grades K-5)

November 25, 2025 8:30 AM - 3:00 PM CDT

CESA 6 - 2300 State Road 44 Oshkosh, WI 54904 USA

Questions? Please contact Amy Ruppert, Program Assistant at aruppert@cesa6.org.

The Power of Literacy: Ensuring Access for Every Young Reader

With the right instruction and support, all students can learn to read and write. This two-year academy will equip participants with assessments, instructional routines, and tools aligned with the latest research around the Science of Reading and writing, to develop specific Individualized Education Plan (IEP) goals, provide instruction, and monitor progress.

Benefits

Know literacy assessment options to support instruction.
Understand how to write IEP goals tightly connected to current reading and writing research.
Understand how to monitor the progress of specific reading and writing areas, and in the areas of written expression.
Develop a repertoire of instructional routines and tools in the areas of basic reading, reading fluency, and reading comprehension, and in the areas of written expression.
Identify specific instructional routines and tools to target students’ IEP goals through specially designed and universal instruction.

Details

Year One: Reading Focus

Two half-day leader sessions at CESA 6, Oshkosh
Four full-day, whole-team learning sessions at CESA 6, Oshkosh
Three one-hour virtual coaching sessions per district

Dates

Leader-only, half-day sessions: 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

November 11, 2025
December 9, 2025

Full team, full-day learning sessions: 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

November 25, 2025
December 16, 2025
February 10, 2026
April 30, 2026

Cost: $2,285 per person, each year
(minimum of 4 team members)

Year Two: Writing Focus

Two half-day leader sessions at CESA 6, Oshkosh
Four full-day, whole-team learning sessions at CESA 6, Oshkosh
Three one-hour virtual coaching sessions per district

Year 2 Dates TBD

Who Should Participate on a District Team?

Special Education Directors
Special Education Teachers
Program Support Teachers
Special Education Paraprofessionals
Curriculum & Instruction Directors
Principals
School Psychologists

QUESTIONS?

Please contact Amy Ruppert, Literacy Program Assistant at aruppert@cesa6.org.

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