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Session menu

Six sessions, built for your room.

Each can run as a conference session, a half- or full-day workshop, a multi-day institute, or a virtual webinar, and every one is shaped to your audience and goals.

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This session explores eight research-supported principles (Chandler et al., 2025) that should guide spelling instruction in classrooms and intervention settings. Participants examine what decades of research reveal about how students learn spellings, why some approaches produce stronger outcomes than others, and how spelling supports broader literacy development. Practical examples show how these principles inform instructional decisions regardless of curriculum or grade level.

Participants will
  • Explain why spelling instruction supports reading, writing, and orthographic learning
  • Identify research-supported principles that guide effective spelling instruction
  • Evaluate common spelling practices through the lens of evidence, efficiency, and transfer
Pairs with Spell Smarter, Not Harder for a full research-to-practice sequence.

Effective spelling instruction does not require longer word lists, more worksheets, or another Friday test. It requires brief, explicit, high-impact routines that help students connect sounds, spellings, meanings, and words in memory. Participants learn a set of 15–20 minute routines distilled from research on spelling intervention and orthographic learning, and leave with practices they can use immediately to strengthen spelling, word reading, and writing.

Two focus options
Grades K–2

Brief, explicit routines that help beginning spellers connect sounds, letters, and early spelling patterns in memory.

Grades 3 and up

Words get longer after second grade, so spelling shifts to bigger units. This focus centers orthographic and morphologically based spelling routines for multisyllabic words.

Participants will
  • Examine the bidirectional relationship between spelling and reading development
  • Practice evidence-based spelling routines that support efficient word learning
  • Apply routines for both foundational and multisyllabic spelling instruction
Pairs with The Science of Spelling to move from research principles to classroom application.

Many upper-elementary, middle, and high school students struggle to access grade-level texts because they have not mastered decoding and recognition of multisyllabic and morphologically complex words. This session bridges early literacy instruction and the advanced word-reading and spelling skills older students need.

Participants will
  • Understand why foundational word reading matters beyond the primary grades
  • Explore how orthographic mapping, morphology, and vowel flexibility build fluent reading
  • Practice four high-impact routines for multisyllabic word reading
  • Integrate word-level instruction into content-area lessons and intervention

As students move into the upper-elementary and middle grades, writing becomes the bridge between thinking and communicating. This session blends practical foundational-skills routines with strategies grounded in Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD).

Participants will
  • Examine the cognitive processes underlying skilled writing
  • Identify sentence-combining, paragraph-development, and genre-based routines
  • Connect SRSD routines to narrative, informational, and argument genres
  • Leave with adaptable templates to strengthen writing across disciplines

Many states now require early dyslexia and reading screening, but screening results too often fail to translate into meaningful support. This session helps educators and leaders move from compliance to impact, drawing on current dyslexia legislation, federal law, and implementation science research.

Participants will
  • Identify the purpose and limitations of dyslexia screening tools
  • Align screening results with evidence-based intervention pathways
  • Build decision-making protocols within MTSS for timely, targeted support
  • Identify leadership practices that sustain effective dyslexia support

This session guides educators through Data-Based Individualization (DBI) to intensify literacy intervention for students with dyslexia who are slow or non-responsive to evidence-based programs. Participants leave with a replicable decision-making framework for designing and refining intensive intervention within special education (Tier 3).

Participants will
  • Apply the principles of DBI to slow responders
  • Align instructional adaptations to the skill deficit driving non-response
  • Implement DBI within existing MTSS structures
  • Practice diagnostic decision-making with cross-grade case examples
Also available, on request
Plain-language literacy talks for parents, caregivers, and communities, grounded in my research on family- and community-based literacy.
How my fees work

Every fee below is a starting point. Final pricing reflects scope, format, and travel, and I always work to make it fit schools and nonprofits.

Formats & fees

Ways to work together.

Conference session / talkStarting at$2,000
A 60–75 minute session or talk on a topic from the menu, ideal for a conference block or a single faculty session.
WorkshopHalf – full day$3,000–$4,000
A hands-on workshop with explicit routines, guided practice, and materials your educators can put to work right away. Half-day from $3,000, full-day from $4,000, scaled to your time and goals.
Virtual webinarStarting at$1,000
A 60-minute live online session, delivered with the same custom preparation as an in-person talk.

For in-person events, travel and lodging are billed separately at cost. Larger audiences and multi-day institutes are quoted individually. Multiple sessions at the same event are bundled at a reduced rate. School and nonprofit budgets are always welcome. If something is close but the budget is tight, tell me and we will find a fit.

The next step

Let's talk about your event.

Send me your event date, audience, and the format you have in mind, and I will reply with a tailored quote within a few days.

brennanwchandler@gmail.com

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