Virtual Training Courses for Individuals
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Cost: $150.00 USD; Registration fee covers all sessions and handouts.
Hours/CE Credits: 6 hours/6 CE credits.
Seats available: Limited to 25 individual seats.
Materials required: CUBED-3 assessment (Insight subscription OR downloaded paper/pencil version)
CUBED-3 Virtual Training Course
Description: In this live virtual training course, LDG’s implementation and dissemination professionals will provide explicit instruction for the new CUBED-3 (third edition) Dynamic Decoding Measures (DDM) and Narrative Language Measures (NLM) Listening and Reading. You will have plenty of opportunities to ask questions, get input on how to administer the CUBED-3, and practice with student videos.
Course content includes:
- CUBED-3 overview and delivery timeline recommendations
- NLM Reading and NLM listening administration & scoring
- DDM administration & scoring
Links to each recorded training session will be provided within 36 hours. Access will be available for 30 days from the date of last recording.
Certificates of training completion will be available for a total of 6 CEU hours.
2024 Courses
Don’t see a course option that fits your current schedule? You can watch the recordings on your own time (you’ll have access for 30 days after the final class)!
MARCH 2024
Class meeting dates and times (6 hours total)
N. America: Tue., Mar. 19 & Thur., Mar. 21 (6–9 PM CDT)
Australia: Wed., Mar. 20 & Fri., Mar. 22 (10 AM–1 PM AEDT)
All classes will be recorded and available to watch at your convenience for up to 30 days!
APRIL 2024
Class meeting dates and times (6 hours total)
N. America: Tuesdays, Apr. 23 & 30 (6–9 PM CDT)
Australia: Wednesdays, Apr. 24 & May 1 (9 AM–12 PM AEST)
All classes will be recorded and available to watch at your convenience for up to 30 days!
JUNE 2024
Class meeting dates and times (6 hours total)
N. America: Tuesdays, Jun. 6, 13, & 20 (5-7 PM CDT)
Australia: Wednesdays, Jun. 7, 14, & 21 (8-10 AM AEST)
All classes will be recorded and available to watch at your convenience for up to 30 days!
July-December Course Schedules Coming Soon!
Cost: $175.00 USD; Registration fee covers all sessions and handouts.
Hours/CE Credits: 6 hours/6 CE credits
Seats available: Limited to 25 individual seats. NO EXCEPTIONS.
Materials required: Story Champs® 2.0 (English OR Spanish/English)
Intro to Story Champs® Virtual Training Course
Description: In this live virtual training course, LDG’s implementation and dissemination professionals will provide explicit instruction for Story Champs® Language Intervention. This course will provide new or veteran Story Champs® users with essential knowledge in the basics of administration and rationales for why the program works.
This course will specifically cover the following topics:
- Story Champs® program ingredients and organization of materials
- How to select a lesson plan and story
- Principles of effective instruction using Story Champs® large group, small group, and individual master lesson plans
- How to use Add On lessons
- How to differentiate instruction for diverse groups and modify lessons for individual students
- Knowing when to change a lesson plan and story level
Audience: New or veteran Story Champs users who have never received training from Language Dynamics Group in the past.
Links to each recorded training session will be provided within 48 hours. Access will be available for 30 days from the date of last recording.
Certificates of training completion will be available for a total of 6 CEU hours.
2024 Courses
Registrants can participate in live sessions or watch the recorded class sessions for up to 30 days after the last class to receive their certificate of completion.
JUNE 2024
Class meeting dates and times (6 hours total)
N. America: Tuesdays, Jun. 4 & 11 (6–9 PM CDT)
Australia: Wednesdays, Jun. 5 & 12 (9 AM–12 PM AEST)
All classes will be recorded and available to watch at your convenience for up to 30 days!
JULY 2024
Class meeting dates and times (6 hours total)
N. America: Tuesdays, July 2 & 9 (6–9 PM CDT)
Australia: Wednesdays, July 3 & 10 (9 AM–12 PM AEST)
All classes will be recorded and available to watch at your convenience for up to 30 days!
OCTOBER 2024
Class meeting dates and times (6 hours total)
N. America: Tuesdays, Oct. 8, 15, & 22 (6–8 PM CDT)
Australia: Wednesdays, Oct. 9, 16, & 23 (10 AM–12 PM AEST)
All classes will be recorded and available to watch at your convenience for up to 30 days!
NOVEMBER 2024
Class meeting dates and times (6 hours total)
N. America: Tue.-Thur., Nov. 12-14 (5–7 PM CST)
Australia: Wed.-Fri., Nov. 13-15 (10 AM–12 PM AEST)
All classes will be recorded and available to watch at your convenience for up to 30 days!
DECEMBER 2024 – Group A
Class meeting dates and times (6 hours total)
N. America: Tue.-Thur., Dec. 10–12 (5–7 PM CST)
Australia: Wed.-Fri., Dec. 11–13 (10 AM–12 PM AEST)
All classes will be recorded and available to watch at your convenience for up to 30 days!
DECEMBER 2024 – Group B
Class meeting dates and times (6 hours total)
N. America: Tue.-Thur., Dec. 17–19 (5–7 PM CST)
Australia: Wed.-Fri., Dec. 18–20 (10 AM–12 PM AEST)
All classes will be recorded and available to watch at your convenience for up to 30 days!
Cost: $175.00 USD; Registration fee covers all sessions and handouts.
Hours/CE Credits: 6 hours/6 CE credits
Seats available: Limited to 25 individual seats. NO EXCEPTIONS.
Materials required: Story Champs® 2.0 (English OR Spanish/English)
Advanced Story Champs® Virtual Training Course
Description: This 6-hour live virtual training will provide attendees with knowledge of how to implement more advanced Story Champs® lessons, moving beyond basic and enhanced story structure. Attendees will be able to implement lessons that target complex language (i.e., causal and temporal subordinate clauses and modifiers), vocabulary, fictional generation, writing, and expository retells.
This course will specifically cover the following topics:
- Selecting and using Story Champs® Add On lesson plans
- Teaching complex academic language: Causal & temporal subordinate clauses and modifiers
- Moving from Enhanced (Level B) to Enhanced Plus (Level c) story structure
- Explicit and inferential vocabulary instruction (Spot the Sparkle game)
- Teaching written personal and fictional narratives (i.e., text generation)
- Assessing narrative writing using the CUBED-3 NLM FLOWCHART
- Teaching information retell, information writing, and tier-3 vocabulary
Course prerequisites: Intro to Story Champs® course is recommended, but not required. Attendees should be fluent in the implementation of basic and enhanced story structure retell and personal generation lessons with high fidelity.
Links to each recorded training session will be provided within 24 hours. Access will be available for 30 days from the date of last recording.
Certificates of training completion will be available for a total of 6 CEU hours.
2024 Courses
Participate in live classes or watch the class recordings for up to 30 days to receive your certificate of completion.
JUNE 2024
Class meeting dates and times (6 hours total)
N. America: Thurs., June 6, 13, & 20 (6–8 PM EDT)
Australia: Fri., June 7, 14, & 21 (8–10 AM AEST)
All classes will be recorded and available to watch at your convenience for up to 30 days!
JULY 2024
Class meeting dates and times (6 hours total)
N. America: Tue.-Thur., July 9, 10, & 11 (12–2 PM EDT)
London, UK: Tue.-Thur., July 9, 10, & 11 (5–7 PM BST)
All classes will be recorded and available to watch at your convenience for up to 30 days!
Cost: $175.00 USD; Registration fee covers all sessions and handouts.
Hours/CE Credits: 6 hours/6 CE credits
Available seats: Limited to 15 individual seats.
Materials required: PEARL kit (1-, 3-, or 5-user kit) – NOT included in cost of training.
PEARL Virtual Training Course
Description: In this 6-hour live virtual training course, LDG’s implementation and dissemination professionals will provide explicit instruction in use of the PEARL, a cutting-edge kindergarten dyslexia and developmental language screener. You will have plenty of opportunities to ask questions, get input on how to administer the PEARL, and practice scoring with real student videos.
This course will specifically cover the following topics:
- Principles of dynamic assessment and how it differs from static assessments
- Research behind PEARL (validity and reliability evidence) and how it can predict future reading and language difficulties with over 80% sensitivity and specificity
- PEARL delivery timeline recommendations
- Review of the 5 PEARL subtests: Dynamic Assessment of Decoding, Dynamic Assessment of Language, Rapid Automatized Naming, Nonword Repetition, and Orthographic Mapping & Phonemic Awareness
- Understanding and scoring student responsiveness
- PEARL assessment interpretation and intervention recommendations
Links to each recorded training session will be provided within 48 hours. Access will be available for 30 days from the date of last recording.
Certificates of training completion will be available for a total of 6 CEU hours.
Courses Coming Soon
Don’t see a course option that fits your current schedule? Check back as we add new courses monthly!
The same expert content in a new, convenient format
All courses are lead by a live instructor
All virtual training course are taught by a live implementation and dissemination professional. Courses are limited to 20-30 seats depending on the course in order to provide a more personalized learning experience. For small or large group training, click here.
Live or asynchronous learning formats
Live participants will have plenty of opportunities to ask questions, get input, and practice. All course sessions are recorded allowing for asynchronous learning. Recorded sessions are provided within 36 hours, and are available to watch on demand for up to 30 days from recording date.
Receive a Certification of Completion
Upon completion of the training course, attendees will receive a Certificate of Completion (may be eligible for CE credits).