By: Laura Sabido

IMSE is fully invested in the rigor of its efforts to bring together and continually nurture an elite cohort of trainers that drive immediate and effective literacy results.

Ensure you have the knowledge needed to implement IMSE strategies with fidelity by taking the IMSE Fidelity Certificate course.

When educators decide to become certified in IMSE’s Orton-Gillingham, they are making a lifelong investment in students’ literacy education and adding a rich layer of expertise to their teaching skills.

Heather Manley, IMSE’s Practicum Coordinator, helps break down exactly why so many choose to experience IMSE’s certification and practicum program.

For over three decades, Susan Evans has dedicated her life to children’s education.

A Speech Language Pathologist, mentor, trainer and teacher in Orlando’s Orange County Public Schools system, Evans not only provides specialized instruction during the day, she also provides after-school tutoring to students struggling with reading comprehension and speech.

Though over the years she’s worked with a number of evidence-based speech and literacy teaching techniques, it wasn’t until she completed the Institute for Multi-Sensory Education’s Practicum and Certification program in 2015 that after 30+ years, she’d found “the missing piece” her students needed that would soon help change F’s to A’s.

“I went into training thinking, ‘I know phonics,'” she said. “But I could not believe the information that I learned, and the information that I did not know, that was pretty eye-opening for me.”

Around the country, dedicated teaching professionals who are trained in Orton-Gillingham by the Institute for Multi-Sensory Education are helping their fellow educators become proficient in learning techniques that are unleashing the learning potential for thousands of students.

IMSE’s trainers know the daily challenges teachers face when trying to meet students’ literacy needs — because they’ve been there themselves.

Simply put: Our instructors are teachers who teach teachers.

As part of the Journal’s ‘Meet The Instructors’ series, we’re profiling these passionate trainers who are putting their knowledge to use — be it with students, or other teachers.