Bring the Science of Reading to Teachers
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Why I decided to undertake this project:
I woke up this morning to our country and world in pain, from Covid 19 to our failing health system to the burning anguish of those who don't have enough to live on, to eat, to take care of basic needs.
My first response was to feel powerless, so not able to help, BUT the one thing I know how to do to help others is to teach them to teach others how to read and spell. I have spent the greater part of my life in this field and am passionate about helping children in need of the basic skills to make a better life for themselves.
My intention is to offer twenty five teachers a full scholarship for a six week Zoom class to learn innovative and effective techniques for teaching basic reading and spelling. This is not the whole of literacy as many people who are receiving this know, but it is a beginning.
Your financial support will allow me to deliver this class to twenty five teachers. In turn, these teachers can reach out to their respective students in need. With twenty-five trained teachers we can reach as many as six hundred students!
Any donation would be helpful to support as many educators as possible. Please help me to make a difference in as many students’ lives as we can.
Sasha Borenstein
About Sasha
Sasha Borenstein has worked in the fields of Special Education and literacy for fifty years as a classroom teacher, remediation specialist, diagnostician, college instructor, and educational consultant.
Sasha received undergraduate training at UCLA in Psychology and Special Education, after which she completed her graduate work in Special Education at Columbia University Teachers’ College.
In 1977 Sasha founded The Kelter Center, a private remediation clinic, in Los Angeles, California, where she was the director for thirty-six years. In addition to teaching students she trained, mentored, and supervised other teachers in their work with children and adults with learning disabilities and dyslexia. During this period, she also served as a consultant, trainer, and mentor with many educational establishments in Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Malibu, Culver City, Long Beach, Oak Park, and the Manhattan Beach Unified School Districts.
Sasha's work with private and charter schools included Pressman Hebrew Academy, El Jardin de Las Familias, Camino Nuevo Charter School, Synergy Charter School, Summit View School, Landmark West School, the Dunn School, and Charles Armstrong School. In addition, she created classes and remedial programs for medical students at Drew University of Science and Medicine, and has been a presenter for the International Dyslexia Association, the California Association of Resource Specialists, the Bureau of Jewish Education, and the Learning Disabilities Association.
The overarching principle throughout Sasha's career has been to understand and translate rigorous educational research into classroom practices. Programs she has worked with extensively include The LiPs Program (2003, Educational Care: A System for Understanding and Helping Children with Learning Problems at Home and in School, Mel Levine ((2013), Step Up to Writing, Maureen Aumann (2008), A Taxonomy of Learning, Teaching and Assessing, A Revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objective (2001), and Unlocking Literacy, Marcia Henry (2011).
Sasha, who currently lives in Oregon and doesn’t seem to know how to stop teaching, is in private practice serving individual students while training classroom teachers in several schools. She has written and recently revised her book, A Teacher's Guide to Teaching Reading and Spelling, Bringing the science of reading into the classroom with Orthography and Letter/Sound Patterns, Syllable Types, and Morphology to help both teachers and parents in guiding children, adolescents, and adults to become thoughtful, engaged readers and spellers. She is also providing teacher training and mentoring to help teachers learn and utilize Structured Literacy practices in classrooms and remediation settings.
I woke up this morning to our country and world in pain, from Covid 19 to our failing health system to the burning anguish of those who don't have enough to live on, to eat, to take care of basic needs.
My first response was to feel powerless, so not able to help, BUT the one thing I know how to do to help others is to teach them to teach others how to read and spell. I have spent the greater part of my life in this field and am passionate about helping children in need of the basic skills to make a better life for themselves.
My intention is to offer twenty five teachers a full scholarship for a six week Zoom class to learn innovative and effective techniques for teaching basic reading and spelling. This is not the whole of literacy as many people who are receiving this know, but it is a beginning.
Your financial support will allow me to deliver this class to twenty five teachers. In turn, these teachers can reach out to their respective students in need. With twenty-five trained teachers we can reach as many as six hundred students!
Any donation would be helpful to support as many educators as possible. Please help me to make a difference in as many students’ lives as we can.
Sasha Borenstein
About Sasha
Sasha Borenstein has worked in the fields of Special Education and literacy for fifty years as a classroom teacher, remediation specialist, diagnostician, college instructor, and educational consultant.
Sasha received undergraduate training at UCLA in Psychology and Special Education, after which she completed her graduate work in Special Education at Columbia University Teachers’ College.
In 1977 Sasha founded The Kelter Center, a private remediation clinic, in Los Angeles, California, where she was the director for thirty-six years. In addition to teaching students she trained, mentored, and supervised other teachers in their work with children and adults with learning disabilities and dyslexia. During this period, she also served as a consultant, trainer, and mentor with many educational establishments in Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Malibu, Culver City, Long Beach, Oak Park, and the Manhattan Beach Unified School Districts.
Sasha's work with private and charter schools included Pressman Hebrew Academy, El Jardin de Las Familias, Camino Nuevo Charter School, Synergy Charter School, Summit View School, Landmark West School, the Dunn School, and Charles Armstrong School. In addition, she created classes and remedial programs for medical students at Drew University of Science and Medicine, and has been a presenter for the International Dyslexia Association, the California Association of Resource Specialists, the Bureau of Jewish Education, and the Learning Disabilities Association.
The overarching principle throughout Sasha's career has been to understand and translate rigorous educational research into classroom practices. Programs she has worked with extensively include The LiPs Program (2003, Educational Care: A System for Understanding and Helping Children with Learning Problems at Home and in School, Mel Levine ((2013), Step Up to Writing, Maureen Aumann (2008), A Taxonomy of Learning, Teaching and Assessing, A Revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objective (2001), and Unlocking Literacy, Marcia Henry (2011).
Sasha, who currently lives in Oregon and doesn’t seem to know how to stop teaching, is in private practice serving individual students while training classroom teachers in several schools. She has written and recently revised her book, A Teacher's Guide to Teaching Reading and Spelling, Bringing the science of reading into the classroom with Orthography and Letter/Sound Patterns, Syllable Types, and Morphology to help both teachers and parents in guiding children, adolescents, and adults to become thoughtful, engaged readers and spellers. She is also providing teacher training and mentoring to help teachers learn and utilize Structured Literacy practices in classrooms and remediation settings.
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Sasha Borenstein
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Ashland, OR
Sasha Borenstein
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