Celebrating Our Dedicated SupportersMore than 70 guests joined Neuhaus

at this year’s annual reading circle as

we showed our appreciation for our

supporters. The event, held at the

Briar Club, featured brief remarks from

Neuhaus President & CEO Dr. Tracy

Weeden and Development Committee

Co-Chair Medora Boone, who has a son

with dyslexia. The impact of Neuhaus’

professional learning was highlighted in a

video which featured touching, personal

stories of five students with dyslexia in

Lufkin Independent School District.

Many long-time supporters brought

several guests to introduce them to the

mission and services of Neuhaus which

are conducted throughout Texas and

nationally.

The Neuhaus Education Center Reading

Circle is a giving society of individuals

who give $1,000 or more cumulatively

in a calendar year. Donors automatically

become members once they have

contributed $1,000 or more within the

timeframe. Members of the reading circle

receive special recognition throughout

the year on printed materials, Neuhaus’

website, and at special events. Also,

during the event, the Gift of Literacy was

unveiled. It is an opportunity to make a

gift to Neuhaus in honor of a teacher,

friend, or loved one. Honorees will

receive a special acknowledgment of the

contribution.

Neuhaus NewsDECEMBER 2017

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Neuhaus was well represented at the recent 2017 Annual Reading, Literacy & Learning Conference hosted by the International Dyslexia Association in Atlanta, GA, November 8-11. It is the premiere professional development conference dedicated to dyslexia. Experts worldwide educate attendees on the latest research, remediation, and more. The conference is held for both families and professionals such as teachers, administrators, reading specialists, researchers, university faculty, psychologists, physicians, and tutors.

Neuhaus was an exhibitor at the conference, which was attended by approximately 2,000 people. Neuhaus’ state partnership team manned a booth and helped spread the word about the services and programs the organization offers. A full-page ad of the Center was printed on the inside front cover of the conference guide.

President & CEO Tracy Weeden, Ed.D, was a co-presenter of an education session for school district superintendents entitled “The Devil is in the Details: Scaling Literacy Initiatives for Successful and Sustainable Change.” Neuhaus Vice-President of Academic Planning and Research Regina Boulware-Goodson, Ph.D., chaired a full-day symposium entitled “The Five Ws of Structured Literacy: How to Build a Successful Model to Improve Literacy on Your Campus.”

Vice-President of Family Support and Adult Literacy Mary H. Yarus, M.Ed., LDT, CALT, discussed Dyslexia 101 for parents.

Director of Academic Planning and Research Rebecca Tolson served as conference co-chair, and Dr. Boulware-Goodson also served on the conference planning committee. Several Neuhaus educators attended the conference.

From sentences to paragraphs, Neuhaus will soon offer a new professional learning course, Written Composition 2: Revision. This online course is part of a comprehensive, online writing toolbox for teachers. The series includes Multisensory Grammar, Written Composition Fundamentals, and Written Composition 2: Revision. The class is scheduled for release in December. For more information, visit www.neuhaus.org/educators/online-classes.

The goal is to help young writers conquer one of the most difficult tasks in the writing process – revision. Teachers will be shown how to teach revision in clear, comprehensible steps. There are 20 modeled lessons

which focus on four areas of revision, organization, clarity, content, and flow.

Lessons are modeled in the online class, which can be taken for credit or simply for reference.

An accompanying instructor’s manual contains several teacher aids, including text, from a master teacher to exemplify the element being taught; a model for teachers to use during instruction; an

activity to practice specific skills; a debriefing of the revising activity; and a directive of how to use the new learning to revise the student’s own writing. Rubrics are included to document student growth.

Neuhaus Education Center Was Prominent at International Dyslexia Conference

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Literacy Lights the Way: Annual Benefit LuncheonJoin us as we celebrate our 32nd Annual Benefit Luncheon: “Literacy Lights the Way.” The event will be held on Friday, April 13, 2018, at the Marriott Marquis Houston and will feature keynote speaker Erin Gruwell, a teacher known for tackling tough cases and employing unique teaching methods to reach each and every student. Erin and her students memorialized their journey in a book: The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them. The story is so compelling that Hollywood came calling and

made it into a movie!Neuhaus will also shine the light on the Butler

Family: Penny & John Butler, Chris & Bo Butler, and Stacey & Scott Butler as the 2018 Butterfly Effect Award honorees. We are proud to share and recognize the philanthropy, leadership, and wisdom they have shown throughout their years of involvement with Neuhaus.

Underwriter opportunities for the luncheon range from $35,000 to $2,000. To secure your

table, please visit Neuhaus.org/luncheon or contact events@neuhaus.org. Individual ticket sales will begin in February.

On Wednesday, April 11, 2018, Drs. Sally and Bennett Shaywitz will join Neuhaus at the Briar Club for the Lenox M. Reed Seminar as the keynote speakers. These world-renowned physician-scientists are leaders in the field of dyslexia research and diagnosis. The couple will share their deep knowledge of dyslexia with audience members focusing on the latest research findings. Please save the date for this incredible event!

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World-Renowned Dyslexia Researchers to Keynote Lenox M. Reed Seminar

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2017-2018

Adrienne Randle Bond, Chair

Ben B. Andrews

Medora T. Boone

Scott Butler

Edward B. Crain, Jr.

Elena Denis, LCSW

Julie Do

George Edwards, Jr.

Santiago Garavito

David A. Hanse

Suzanne S. Harter

Joe Heller

Jenny Roman Johnson

Robert W. Kirkland

Amy A. Melton

Josephine P. Smith

W. Temple Webber III

Margaret Young

FOUNDERS/LIFETIME TRUSTEES

Marilyn Beckwith

Margaret H. Ley, CALT*

Virginia McFarland

Ed Neuhaus

Betty Neuhaus*

Virginia G. Noel*

William D. Noel

Fredda Parker*

Lenox Reed, M.Ed., CALT

Nancy Collie Reed*

Elizabeth B. Wareing

Kay McGibbon Werlein, M.Ed.

*deceased

ADVISORY BOARD

Holly T. Anderson

Blanche S. Bast, M.A.T.

Cynthia Summerford Birdwell

Genevieve Hutcheson Butcher

Spencer Bynes

J. David Cabello

Lucy Reinking Carl

Loretta R. Cross

Michael P. Cullinan

Linda B. Denison

Jamie Grissom

Joanie Haley

Jennifer W. Hazelton

Suzanne G. Heinrich

Bruce Holzband

Curtis Hutcheson

JP Hutcheson

Marjorie C. Hutcheson

Jennifer Jeffery

Ann K. Johnson, CALT

Steve Johnson

Patty Kallmeyer

Katherine Kardesch

Courtney Lippincott

Shandy Moore

Walter Negley

Charles W. Neuhaus

Larry Neuhaus

Barbara Noel

Robert W. Paddock

Michele Mason Pilibosian, JD

Melissa Beckworth Rabalais

Katheryn Shaffer Ray

Erin Reid

Barbara Sklar

Sherra Cassin Sowell

Amy Thompson

Katherine Veletsos

Leslie Wade

Elizabeth Munson Whitehead

PRESIDENT & CEO

Tracy Weeden, Ed.D.

CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

Rayanne F. Darensbourg, M.P.A.

NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL

Marilyn Jager Adams. Ph.D.

Pamela Bell, Ph.D.

Judith R. Birsh, Ed.D.

Benita A. Blachman, Ph.D.

Susan A. Brady, Ph.D.

Elsa Cárdenas-Hagan, Ed.D.

David Chard, Ph.D.

David J. Francis, Ph.D.

Susan L. Hall, Ed.D., M.B.A.

Marcia K. Henry, Ph.D.

R. Malatesha Joshi, Ph.D.

Diana Hanbury King, M.A.

Lisa Kinnaman, Ed.D.

Louisa Cook Moats, Ed.D.

Betty B. Osman, Ph.D.

Sam Redding, Ed.D.

Sally E. Shaywitz, M.D.

Ruth Strudler, Ph.D.

Thomas G. West, M.A.

Troy Wheeler

W. Daniel Williamson, M.D.

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