Rosemary Gin & Shari Jensen

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.

Dyslexia Reading Interventionist, Orton-Gillingham Certified, Rosemary Gin is gifted in bringing non-readers into the world of reading. Teaching reading has always been her passion! Masters of Science in Elementary Education. Primary teacher. Adult literacy teacher in Nepalese and English. She homeschooled her three children while living abroad. She hails from BC and loves to hike and ride her bike.

2023 CONFERENCE SESSION

SESSION: You Are Amazing! Let's Make a Book About It!

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!

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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