With the 2019-2020 school year officially underway, IMSE is excited to announce our 5-part overview of literacy policies across the US. Literacy and education policies can differ so much across country, state, and district lines.

While phonemic awareness and phonics are connected in some respects, they are not the same. Nevertheless, both are very important to a child’s literacy development. To put it simply, phonics involves using the eyes and ears while phonemic awareness involves just the…

With the 2019-2020 school year officially underway, IMSE is excited to announce our 5-part overview of literacy policies across the US. IMSE has traveled across the country (and world) offering Orton-Gillingham training to educators.

For the last 25 years, IMSE has been training educators in an explicit, systematic and sequential, multi-sensory teaching approach. Our goal is for every classroom to have proper techniques to help ensure that all students learn how to read.

Dr. Maria Murray is the founder and CEO of The Reading League, a not-for-profit association dedicated to advancing the awareness, acceptance, and use of evidence-based practices in schools and other education agencies.​ Murray is also an associate professor at the…