The February 1 deadline is fast approaching. Read the 2023 application guidelines and submit your application. Award notifications will be sent on February 15.

"One of the main goals of IDA Georgia is to promote evidence-based literacy instruction for teachers. We believe that training teachers will have the greatest impact on students who struggle to learn how to read in Georgia. In order to facilitate this goal, a Teacher Scholarship program has been established to provide support to teachers to help offset the personal costs of such training. We fund individual teachers and not schools or school districts with our program. Our scholarship is designed for teachers in public or private schools to provide structured literacy instruction to students at no cost in their own school setting. The scholarship program at this time is not intended to train tutors."

Read the IDA Fact Sheet about Effective Instruction for Students with Dyslexia.

What text-based strategies should educators know to support building background knowledge and comprehension, vocabulary enhancement, and fluency?  If you attended our first Spotlight webinar, you heard Anita Archer speak highly of Dr. Vaughn's work.

IDA-GA and TRL-GA are bringing this and the other webinars in the series to you at NO COST. Spread the word! Dates: Jan. 18, Feb. 8, Mar. 1, Mar. 29. Registrants can earn a COA by filling out a Knowledge Check /COA Request form within the submission deadline following each event. Links to details and registration for each event can be found here.

Dr. Sharon Vaughn is the Manuel J. Justiz Endowed Chair in Education at The University of Texas and the Executive Director of The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk. She is the recipient of numerous awards and is the author of more than 40 books and 350 research articles. She is currently Principal Investigator on several Institute for Education Sciences, National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, and U.S. Department of Education research grants. She works as a senior adviser to the National Center on Intensive Interventions and has more than six articles that have met the What Works Clearing House Criteria for their intervention reports. She has conducted technical assistance in literacy to more than 10 countries and 30 State Departments of Education and has worked as a literacy consultant to more than 50 technical assistance projects. For Dr. Vaughn's complete bio & to register for the Feb. 8 event, click here.

In December 2022, Georgia teens applied for a position on our 2023 IDA-GA Teen Board. The mission of the IDA-GA Teen Board is to connect with Georgia students who have dyslexia and provide support and assistance to them during their school years. The teen board works with IDA-GA Board Members on events and projects.

IDA-GA Board Members reviewed the applications and notified the new board members in mid-January. The first meeting was held on January 24, 2023. Be on the lookout for details about a Teen Board webinar event which will be held towards the end of April.