End of Year Update

MAY CENTER LAUNCHES NEW PROGRAMS!

May Center for Learning is known for being a leader in the field of learning difference education. May School provides a Montessori-based environment that emphasizes systematic and cumulative skills acquisition while emphasizing multi-sensory learning methods. May Center’s tutoring programs use these same methods in a one-on-one setting.

In response to the need for flexible, remote learning options for students with learning differences, May Center for Learning has launched May Away. May Away is designed to provide the same evidence-based, explicit individualized instruction that we provide in our other May Center programs for students who:

•elected to learn from home in a homeschool environment

•are doing remote learning with their school

•may simply be looking for high quality supplemental instruction during this uncertain and challenging time.

All May Away courses are provided in a dynamic, synchronous learning environment through Google Classroom and Google Meet. Students can sign up for 1, 2, or 3 courses with a maximum of 4 students per class. Click here for more information about May Away and to register your student for the spring session, which begins March 22.

High school students can explore and reach new PEAKs with May Center's PEAK Program: Personal Empowerment, Aptitude & Knowledge! Launching winter 2021 with three engaging online courses designed for students in grades 8-12: PEAK Language Arts, PEAK Mathematics, and the PATH program. PATH designed to help secondary learners develop the skills and confidence necessary to reach their “peaks”. Offered in partnership with Northwestern University, PATH has helped countless students achieve their academic and personal goals by focusing on the development of self-regulation skills, deep learning strategies, goal-setting, organization, time management and more. 

These courses are just the beginning of what May Center has planned for high school students. Looking ahead, May Center's PEAK Program will provide personalized support for all aspects of the high school experience. From summer bridge to high school to personal passion projects to college counseling and SAT/ACT prep, the PEAK Program aims to empower your high school student to discover their personal aptitudes and reach for their aspirations.

MAY CENTER FOR LEARNING IMPACTS OVER 17,000 TEACHERS IN NEW MEXICO WITH EFFECTIVE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

May Center Teacher Institute collaborates with individuals, organizations, schools, and public entities statewide to provide effective professional development for educators who want to reach ALL students in their classrooms. In 2020 alone, we provided evidence-based, effective professional development for over 17,000 teachers in New Mexico, with the goal of empowering teachers to improve learning outcomes for ALL students in their classrooms. 

We offer customized professional development focused on foster reading, writing and executive functioning skills. Our overview of learning differences and simulation of learning differences bring together the latest brain science with practical strategies for any learning environment, fostering empathy, understanding, and respect. 

May Center for Learning also provides training in the science of reading and writing for classroom teachers, reading interventionists, special education teachers and school administrators. For more information about Structured Literacy(TM) and why evidence demonstrates it is the most effective way to teach ALL students to read, visit the IDA website.

May Center for Learning is proud to partner with the New Mexico Public Education Department to present “Structured Literacy and Dyslexia 101”, an online course available now through the PED website to all educators in New Mexico. This course, as well as the new New Mexico Dyslexia Handbook, are in support of New Mexico’s Dyslexia Early Interventions law, which mandates that all first graders are screened for dyslexia and that all elementary teachers receive training in the science of reading and Structured Literacy teaching.

BECOME A CERTIFIED ACADEMIC LANGUAGE PRACTITIONER

Register now for our national certification program in Structured Literacy Intervention using the SEE program.  The SEE Program is an IMSLEC accredited program recognized by IDA for teaching phonological and phonemic awareness, sound-symbol correspondence, phonics, decoding and encoding, syllables, morphology, auditory discrimination and memory.  SEE was written by Dr. Joyce S. Pickering of Shelton School of Dallas. May Center offers this national certification program through our partnership with Shelton. Click here for more information about our winter 2021 cohort and to register.

MAY EVALUATION CENTER PROVIDES DIAGNOSTIC EVALUATIONS STATEWIDE

May Evaluation Center now has the capacity to provide remote diagnostic services statewide.  May Evaluation Center provides comprehensive diagnostic services to individuals and school districts across New Mexico.  Click here for more information.