[Testimonial] Aspire Helps Middle School Educators Bring Evidence-Based Instruction Into Their Classrooms

With a long history of relying on Lexia® solutions, including Lexia® Core5® Reading and Lexia® LETRS® Professional Learning, introducing Lexia Aspire® Professional Learning for Bettendorf, Iowa’s 23 middle school classroom ELA teachers, academic interventionists, special education teachers, and instructional coaches was an easy decision.

“One of the biggest things that I think makes the biggest impact for students is teacher efficacy,” Rhonda Nelson, the district’s curriculum instruction and assessment coordinator, says. “What does evidence-based practice look like for middle school?”

Aspire is science of reading-based professional learning for grades 4–8 educators. Accredited by the International Dyslexia Association®, Aspire empowers all educators to accelerate literacy skills among their students.

Watch this video to learn how Aspire is empowering Iowa middle school educators to help their students make the critical shift of learning to read to reading to learn.