Rosemary Gin & Shari Jensen

CONFIDENT KIDS ACADEMY

Shari Jensen is a reading interventionist, consultant, founder of Creatively Breaking Free and co-founder of Confident Kids Academy. As the instructional coordinator at the Vanderbilt Reading Clinic, Shari taught over 100 tutors to provide reading interventions to struggling readers. Over the past 30 years and various roles, Shari has discovered many effective, creative solutions so that every minute spent on instruction is the most efficient use of time for both parent and child. Her expertise in parenting 3 atypical, rambunctious boys has given her first-hand experience with setting up home systems to help parents navigate ADHD and Sensory Processing Disorders.

Rosemary Gin has a background as an Orton-Gillingham Certified Dyslexia Reading Interventionist and a Master of Science in Elementary Education. She has experience as a Primary teacher and in homeschooling her children while living abroad, as well as, in adult literacy. Teaching reading has always been her passion! Rosemary partnered with Shari to co-found Confident Kids Academy and together they create products that support Reading. Her latest asset is the Phonological Awareness Reading Readiness Activities. She loves to hike and bike with her husband and young-adult children.

2024 CONFERENCE SESSION

SESSION: Reading Foundations: Setting Your Preschooler Up For Success

Passionate reading teachers Rosemary Gin and Shari Jensen present the science of read-alouds and the three clue systems all good readers use. This foundational knowledge will enable parents to better support their children's reading development from the start. We couple this with fun, easy ideas on what you can do now to set your little one up for reading success.

PAST CONFERENCE SESSIONS

CANHSCON2022

SESSION: FUN TOOLS & STRATEGIES THAT ENGAGE ALL READERS AND WRITERS

Lessons come alive with these tried-and-true methods that Reading Specialists, Rosemary Gin and Shari Jensen have been using for years. Learn how magnetic letters make experimenting with words fun for beginner readers all the way up to reluctant middle schoolers. Coax kids into taking risks with writing using scented markers, gel pens, and dry erase markers. Replace worksheets with active, multisensory techniques that help beginner readers grow. Learn a fun and easy way to reinforce sight words and celebrate growth every day! Lastly, see how sentence ladders get beginning writers excited about writing and teach more experienced writers paragraph organization.

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CANHSCON2023

SESSION: YOUR CHILD IS AMAZING

Your Child Is Amazing! Use Your Child's Strengths To Open Up Learning Pathways

Kids can shut down when they think something is too difficult. When kids feel and say negative things about themselves it stifles learning. Once they see themselves through 'their strengths', their brains open up. Learning becomes easier as their self-image begins to change. This workshop guides you through making a "Strengths" book. Let's change our kid's brains from focusing on how hard something is to how amazingly talented they are!

Bring 3 pieces of blank paper, crayons, markers or colored pencils, and a list of 5 things your child is good at doing. If you can take a picture of your child doing each of those things, it will be even more powerful! See you there!

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