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Reading is at the heart of learning but what are the best methods, technology, and materials to use to help every child develop and thrive as a reader? We will discuss the research behind the “Reading Wars”: Phonics-based Science of Reading versus Balanced Literacy/Guided Reading, and find the best of both worlds. This workshop will also take a practical look at innovative and effective reading apps and websites to engage students, improve vocabulary, comprehension and problem solving, and build foundational reading skills.

Dr. Elaine Holden, director of The Reading Foundation located in Amherst, New Hampshire, has been a reading diagnostician specializing in dyslexia in the New England area for over 50 years. Nationally recognized for both her research contributions and her professional seminars around the country, Elaine has been, for many years, a senior lecturer in the Graduate School of Education at Rivier University, Nashua, New Hampshire.  Elaine evaluates children both privately and for school districts in the area of reading and related language disorders, and sits on the governing board for the Associate of Specialists in the Assessment of Intellectual Functioning (ASAIF), a profession that only exists in the state of New Hampshire. Elaine has been a member of the board of governors for the Children’s Dyslexia Center of Nashua, New Hampshire, for over 15 years, as well as a past member of the New Hampshire board of directors of The International Dyslexia Association, and Windy Row Learning Center of Peterborough, New Hampshire. She is the first Orton-Gillingham Academy Fellow in the State of New Hampshire.  For 25 years, she wrote a book review column for the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript, and currently is the host for two radio shows: The Holding Hour, and Turning Pages With Elaine, on WSMN 1590 AM and 95.3 FM, here in Nashua, New Hampshire.  Elaine’s television show on Nashua Public Television, titled Education Matters, is broadcast every Friday afternoon. Elaine has also been writing poetry since childhood and has published two poems in an English literature poetry anthology, and most recently she has had a poem published with the Peterborough Poetry Collective’s newest anthology.  She has been recognized within the state of New Hampshire for her landscape paintings and is the former secretary on the governing board of the Pastel Society of New Hampshire. Elaine exhibits her work throughout the state of New Hampshire.  Elaine also served as the Vice-Chair of the Professional Conduct Commission for the New Hampshire Supreme Court, is the first, and only female appointed by Governor Lynch to his Commission on the Status of Men, and has served on the governing board of the New England Fathering Commission, representing the state of New Hampshire.  Elaine has been a loyal Rotarian for 25+ years, a member of the Monadnock Summer Lyceum Committee, a Master Gardner, and currently serves on the Peterborough Clean Energy Task Force.

This session is intended to update you on the newest American Heart Association CPR/AED guidelines and meet certification requirements.  CPR/AED includes Adult, Child, and Infant CPR/AED and obstructed airway for both conscious and unconscious subjects.

This session is intended to update you on the newest CPR guidelines and meet certification requirements.  Basic First Aid covers bleeding, broken bones, burns, bites, seizures, allergies, Epi pens and more.