Early Intervention and Educational Therapy – Bond and Robertson

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Summary

Learn how to identify the needs of your youngest students before they experience academic failure and build a program to address these needs. Discover the difference between educational therapy and tutoring, and how to help your students understand their own learning challenges, advocate for themselves, and close their performance gaps.

Speaker

Kelly Bond began her career in social work after completing a clinical master’s degree from Walla Walla University in Washington state. She worked in the foster care system as a licensor and case manager for several years. She began working for Trinity Classical Academy during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. Kelly started providing targeted literacy and math interventions to new students who scored low on academic entrance exams. Kelly pursued additional education and licensure as an Educational Therapist through the National Institute for Learning Development.

Sarah Robertson serves as Coordinator of Grammar School Curriculum and Teacher Training at Trinity Classical Academy in Valencia, California. She spent a decade as a classroom teacher at Trinity and has experience teaching early intervention classes for emerging readers in many formats within a classical school. She received a BA in early childhood education and English from Kean University in Union, New Jersey. Sarah and her husband have four classically educated children, including one with special needs. They have worked hard to build a home culture that loves reading, waffles, baseball, and serving their church family.

kbond@trinityclassicalacademy.com

srobertson@trinityclassicalacademy.com

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