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Events
Open House & Dyslexia Simulation, May 3, 2025
Please join your friends at Vertical Skills Academy (VSA) Saturday, May 3rd to celebrate our new Littleton location!
When: Saturday, May 3, 2025
12pm-2pm: Open House (with brief remarks at 1pm)
10am-12pm: Dyslexia Simulation exercise* (RSVP required)
Where: 4000 S Wadsworth Blvd, Littleton, CO 80123 (VSA will be located in the same building as the Havern School)
What: Tour our new Littleton home | Meet parents, teachers & students | Learn about Dyslexia | Learn about Vertical Skills Academy’s programs and resources | Light refreshments provided
Who: Open to everyone! Parents & caregivers, students (prospective, alumni & current), education professionals, health professionals, and more!
Why: This is an exciting move for VSA because it offers easier access for front-range families, increased capacity to help more kids, expanded dyslexia tutoring locations, and access to more services under a single roof!
*Dyslexia Simulation: This free, 2-hour simulation exercise is open to teachers, parents, and other community members interested in better understanding what your students and/or children are experiencing. Participants will work through 5 tasks that simulate what it is like to have dyslexia/dysgraphia, as well as learn about dyslexia. We recommend participants be 11+ years old without dyslexia (however, students with dyslexia may attend in order to support the education of their loved ones). Childcare will be available. RSVP is required so we can prepare materials for all participants. RSVP by April 30 for the dyslexia simulation to admin@VerticalSkillsAcademy.org.
thinkSRSD in 2025
thinkSRSD (Self-Regulated Strategy Development) in Literacy
8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
SRSD is a complex and deeply evidence-based approach to teaching writing. It is based on Karen Harris and Steve Graham’s meta-analysis of evidence based practices with the highest effect size. Research on SRSD done in empirical studies, as well as from schools partnering with thinkSRSD, show the significant transformation this approach makes possible when teachers adopted deeply structured approaches to teaching writing. While there are many elements to thinkSRSD, key characteristics are often already familiar to teachers. Six routines, forming a POWeR cycle, will be explicitly taught and practiced during this 2-day class, and teachers will be able to walk out ready to implement on Day 1.
There are currently no classes schedule. Please go to www.thinksrsd.com to register for the online course, or contact info@thinksrsd.com to register for live/virtual courses.
Thank you to our Sponsors of Rockin’ Dyslexia! We appreciate their support and generosity for students with dyslexia! Look here for next year’s date!
