STAR reading initiative national training held at The Center

The ALRC recently hosted a U.S. Department of Education national training of trainers for the STAR (STudent Achievement in Reading) Project. The intensive five days of training included some new online, interactive software which was well received.

A cadre of national trainers from across the country attended the training. These trainers are now prepared to access the national STAR online reading toolkit and to conduct the STAR institutes for professional development. Also participating were state trainers from the six initial STAR pilot states of California, Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Ohio, and South Dakota. These six participating pilot states are now prepared to integrate evidence-based reading instruction into their classrooms.

This training of trainers was conducted by Laura Bercovitz and Laurie Martin of the ALRC, Mary Beth Curtis from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Jane Meyer of Canton City Schools in Ohio. National team members included Laura Lanier and Grace Solares of DTI, Associates in Washington, DC and a U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Vocational and Adult Education representative.