Is SVS for My Child?

There are many benefits of a small classroom size, especially for students with learning differences. Among the primary benefits are: 

• Peer-to-Peer Connection
• Freedom to Share Ideas
• Increased Classroom Engagement 

Spring Valley's Dyslexia Therapy program: 

• Is a comprehensive program designed to rewire pathways for lifelong learning.
• Serves each whole child, without forfeiting the whole school experience. 
• Is a therapy program that starts on day one of school. 

Spring Valley currently has 9 Certified Academic Language Therapists (CALTs) on staff. CALTs: 

• Hold the highest level of dyslexia therapy certification.
• Are a provider of diagnostic, explicit, systematic Multi-sensory Structured Language intervention which builds a high degree of accuracy, knowledge, and independence for students with written-language disorders, including dyslexia.

Dyslexia Therapists at Spring Valley have received training with Neuhaus Education Center in:

• The nature of literacy acquisition. 
• The facets of domains of language. 
• The characteristics of dyslexia diagnostic teaching practices. 
• The structure and patterns of English for reading and spelling. 
• Ttrategies for developing oral language and comprehension. 

• Math curriculum and vocabulary are explicitly taught at the elementary level beginning in lower school.
• Every ELA teacher is trained in the Science of Reading (earning 45 CEUs)
• All SVS faculty members participate in professional development programs that apply instructional concepts of writing.

85% of SVS students have a language-based learning difference. Research shows that intersperced units yield greater retention of content. 

SVS curriculum is devised from reading, writing, and math research conducted by the following partners: PAUL RICCOMINI, PhD | KEVIN CAMPBELL, PhD | ELIZABETH HUGHES, PhD | BRAD WINTZEL, PhD

Explicit, systematic instruction of mathematics is comprised of four main components: 

1.  Clear Modeling

2. Think-Alouds

3. Multiple Examples

4. Immediate Corrective Feedback

THE HETTIE JOHNSON INSTITUTE

Rachel Shank 
Certified Academic Language Therapist 
rshank@springvalleyschool.org

ADMISSIONS & FAMILY ENGAGEMENT

Holly Kennedy
Admissions and Family Engagement Coordinator 
hkennedy@springvalleyschool.org