Laura Haefner

• Enhance foundational literacy skills and overall reading comprehension by implementing targeted literacy interventions and strategies in one-on-one tutoring sessions.
• Evaluate student progress through regular assessments, adjusting instruction as needed to optimize growth.

• Collaborate with colleagues to plan individualized literacy interventions, cultivating a culture of shared responsibility for student success in literacy.
• Implement research-based approaches to deliver differentiated instruction tailored to individual learner needs.
• Foster a positive learning environment by establishing clear expectations and encouraging open communication among stakeholders
• Act as a resource for colleagues, sharing best practices and innovative approaches to teaching reading and writing skills across curriculum.

• Designed developmentally appropriate and standards-aligned instruction for first grade students in a partial French immersion classroom.

• Provided Take Flight or other appropriate literacy interventions in small group pull out/push in formats
• Informed intervention practice by timely data
• Offered literacy minded PD to coworkers.

• Designed developmentally appropriate and standards-aligned instruction for third grade students in a partial French immersion classroom.

• Designed developmentally appropriate and standards-aligned instruction for first grade students in a diverse classroom.

• Designed developmentally appropriate and standards-aligned instruction for second grade students in a diverse classroom.

1. Over 200 hours of training and instruction provided by ALTA certified CALTQIs affiliated with the CLLC and ASD20 in Colorado Springs. 2. Over 500 hours of supervised reading therapy using the Take Flight curriculum. 3. CALT exam completion 4. An additional 200+ hours of independent reading therapy administered

Attended lectures by top literacy researchers such as Hugh Catts, Laurie Cutting, Margie Gillis, and Anna Middleton

• Coursework grounded in the Science of Reading to include research and practice related to all facets of literacy instruction and intervention.
• GPA: 4.0

• Honors: Dean's List; Summa Cum Laude
• Course work in Early Childhood Development and Child Psychology.
• GPA: 4.0

• Honors: Dean's List
• GPA: 3.75