Tuesday, February 11, 2025

ARE YOUR LITERACY PROGRAMS DRIVING THE RESULTS YOU NEED?

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FREE WEBINAR
30-Minute Live Webinar for Administrators
A Framework for Effective Implementation for Increased Student Success
February 11, 2025 | 3pm ET
Presented by Dr. Siobhan Dennis & Barbara Sheaffer
This webinar is designed to provide school leaders with a clear and efficient framework for evaluating their program implementation to ensure a strong return on their science of reading investment.

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Dr. Siobhan Dennis
Senior Director of Customer Experience

Dr. Siobhan Dennis
Senior Director of Customer Experience

Dr. Siobhan Dennis is the Sr. Director of Customer Experience - Administrator Relations where she leads the team of Literacy Advisors at Wilson Language Training.  She is a former urban and suburban elementary principal who implemented systemic change and professional learning in her schools through the use of Instructional Rounds and collaborative professional development.   

For the past five years at Wilson Language, Siobhan has led the WIN Prin Networks working with principals and school leaders from across the country to build principal networks and communities of practice around structured literacy and Implementation Science.  In collaboration with the Literacy Advisor team, Siobhan facilitates principal implementation coaching to help build principals’ capacity to become strong literacy leaders and advocate for highly effective and evidence-based literacy practices within their schools. Also, she serves as an education solution architect to help large districts understand and implement solutions that will allow them to ensure literacy for all students. 

Siobhan has over 24 years of educational experience as an elementary classroom teacher, graduate-level adjunct professor, school administrator, and district level consultant. 

Siobhan Dennis holds a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership from Lesley University, M.Ed. in Urban Education and Teacher Research, and a B.A. in Communication from Clark University.  She serves on the Board of Trustees at the Worcester Cultural Academy Charter School and is a corporator at the Worcester Art Museum. 

Barbara Sheaffer
Director of Administrator Relations

Barbara Sheaffer
Director of Administrator Relations

Barbara Sheaffer serves as the Director of Administrator Relations at Wilson Language Training®. She supports school leaders in their implementation of all Wilson programs. Barbara assists districts in the development of comprehensive literacy plans, provides school leader coaching and facilitates school leader learning and collaboration through the WIN Prin courses focusing on implementation science and Structured Literacy.

Previously she worked in public education for 30 years as a teacher and then as a director of special education. She has taught and supported the use of Fundations®, Just Words® and the Wilson Reading System®.

She has been contributing to the Wilson mission since 2002 when she became a Wilson® Credentialed Trainer. She continued her contributions to Wilson by joining WLT as an On-Call Trainer in 2010 and in 2022 as a Literacy Advisor.

Barbara has a B.S.in Special Education and a M.S. in Early Childhood Education. She holds certificates as a Reading Specialist and Administrative I – Principal K-12.

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