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2025 SCHOOL SUPPORT FORM

Principal/Administration Responsibilities

  • Allow the trainee to teach the Take Flight curriculum with fidelity and as prescribed:
    60-minute sessions four (4) days/week (Highly Recommended) OR
    45-minute session five (5) days/week

  • Allow trainee to instruct a minimum of three (3) Take Flight groups of 1-5 students per group for two (2) consecutive school years

  • Do not add students to a Take Flight group once instruction has begun, as this program is sequential and cumulative. However, forming a new group during the school year is possible.

  • Provide an enclosed teaching space with a large magnetic whiteboard dedicated to Take Flight instruction and not shared during instructional times

  • Allow the trainee to be absent for four (4) days each school year for training with no financial penalty. Attendance is mandatory.

  • Allow trainee to attend two (2) professional conferences related to dyslexia (1 per year of training)

  • Minimize the trainee’s additional school responsibilities during the two (2) year training period

Trainee Responsibilities

  • Teach the Take Flight curriculum with fidelity and as prescribed:
    60-minute sessions four (4) days/week (Highly Recommended) OR
    45-minute session five (5) days/week

  • Attend and actively participate in all mandatory training: Intro Summer Course, four (4) Intro Seminars, Advanced Summer Course, and four (4) Advanced Seminars.

  • Complete all homework assignments and book reports by the assigned due date

  • Teach a minimum of three (3) Take Flight groups of 1-5 students per group for two (2) consecutive school years

  • Submit and pass ten (10) taped demonstration lessons—five (5) per school year

  • Attend two (2) approved professional conferences related to dyslexia (1 per year of training)

  • Submit periodic progress reports and student progress monitoring by the assigned date.

  • Achieve 700 hours of clinical teaching hours with students using the Take Flight curriculum

Signing this document indicates to the Dyslexia Center of Austin that the Principal/School agrees to the requirements outlined in it and agrees to implement training requirements independent of future administrative changes.