DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
SUPTS. MEMO NO. 227
October 26, 2007
Billy K. Cannaday, Jr.
Superintendent of Public Instruction
The Department of Education
is pleased to announce the second statewide
This academy will provide a focused professional
development experience for special education teachers of students with reading
difficulties. This professional
development training may be used by teachers to satisfy the
reading/English/language arts requirements of the High Objective Uniform State
Standard of Evaluation (HOUSSE) approved by the Virginia Board of Education on
February 25, 2004.
academy includes sessions on the critical components of a comprehensive reading
program focusing on scientifically-based reading research with emphasis on
interventions for struggling readers, word attack skills, fluency, spelling,
vocabulary development, comprehension strategies, and strategies to
differentiate instruction within content area text. There is no cost for registration or materials. Lunch will be provided each day.
Transportation and lodging expenses will not be reimbursed.
Registration will be
conducted through the Reading First in Virginia website: http://www.readingfirst.virginia.edu
and will begin November 1, 2007, for schools receiving Reading First
funding, and November 8, 2007, for all other schools.
Questions regarding the online Teacher Reading Academies should be directed to Patience Scott, Reading First coordinator, via e-mail Patience.Scott@doe.virginia.gov or telephone (804) 225-3203.