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Educator Development for Teachers & Parents

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For Teachers! 

As a teacher educator for more than a decade, I helped to prepare many hundreds of candidates in NY and PA for successful and rewarding careers as elementary and secondary teachers, reading teachers/specialists, and literacy coaches. Let me leverage that experience for your school, district, or agency. 

On a fee-for-service basis, I provide in-person or virtual professional development workshops related to literacy assessment and instruction, Common Core-aligned teaching practices for ELA classrooms, disciplinary literacy practices, the development of effective Tier 3 interventions under the Response to Intervention framework, vocabulary building with Latin and Greek roots and affixes, or any other literacy-related topic you request.

For Parents!

You need workshops, too. Parents need to be empowered to be equal partners in the education of their children. Parents of students who struggle are in particular need of workshops and coaching to help them learn and practice home-teaching strategies and to develop confidence as educators. Let me develop in-person or virtual parent workshops or design a coaching program for your school, district, agency, or homeschooling co-op.

Guided Book Study Groups

I am also available to design and facilitate in-person or online professional book study groups with teachers, paraprofessionals, and/or parents. Professional book study groups are a powerful form of professional development. Based on your needs and interests, I can suggest both structures for this kind of group work and titles of books for consideration.

My Fees

Fees are specific to the structure and complexity of the training. Please reach out to me to discuss your needs and schedule.

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What Others Are Saying…

Public Review of Vocabulary Building with Roots & Affixes – Suffixes on Outschool

Dr Karen Wieland is an amazing teacher- she engages her students with a variety of tools and is able to give individualized attention even in a group setting. Our student has really taken to the class and looks forward to it every week and is very diligent with homework. Highly recommend. Rating: 5 / 5

RoxsannaOutschool parent

Public Review of Multisensory Phonics Level 1 on Outschool:

This was our very first Outschool experience. We were very impressed with how smooth and organized this class was. We have seen a marked improvement in [our daughter’s] reading confidence. Rating 5/5

Christine M.Outschool parent

Review of Vocabulary Building with Latin and Greek Roots and Affixes, Level 1 on Outschool:

Dr. Karen is an incredible teacher. She is enthusiastic, incredibly knowledgable, funny, and passionate about words. My eleven-year-old son LOVED this class and learned so much. Even when we were on vacation, he begged to find a location so he could call in. When I asked him if he would like to do level two, he said, “I will do anything with Dr. Karen!” – Rating 5/5

CyndiOutschool parent

My 10 yo is super interested in biology and herpetology so this course was great to support his understanding of all the scientific literature he reads. Dr. Wieland is very interactive with the students and while my learner drags his feet to class, he always comes out mentioning how much he enjoyed the lesson. We are definitely interested in taking the next level. Rating 5/5

AbigailOutschool parent

Dr. Karen is an exceptional teacher. I would highly recommend her to any parent seeking foundational instruction spelling and reading. She is incredibly dedicated, caring, friendly, engaged with her student and really knows her stuff! It’s quite clear that, for her, this teaching is a calling rather than an extra source of income. My daughter actually looks forward to her phonics sessions with Dr. Karen. That says a lot. In two weeks of intense sessions, we have already noticed a distinct improv… Read more

Deb JParentOutschool

My son has taken numerous classes with Dr. Karen over the past few years and every single one of them has been wonderful! His reading, writing, and understanding of the English language has just exploded in all of the best ways. She spends so much time with the students and is always engaging. We love her!

ChristinaOutschool Parent

Dr. Karen has been instrumental part of my son’s education through her one on one tutoring with [him]. She maintains a level of efficiency that is fueled by her obvious work ethic and her professional concern for her students’ progress. When dealing with Dr. Karen, it is immediately evident that she has a love for the profession and a sincere interest in and concern for the students. Furthermore, she spends many hours with an individual student’s tutoring and working on reading strategies … Read more

JodyParentOlean, NY

We became aware approximately two years ago that Dr. Wieland was working on level two Wilson Reading and that she was willing to involve my daughter in the work she was doing. Since that time, she has worked with my daughter, first specifically on the Wilson Reading [program], and then branching out to include improving her contextual comprehension, fluency, and vocabulary as well as her reading motivation. While my daughter does not yet read at grade level, she has made significant progress, w… Read more

HeatherParentAllegany, NY

My son was afforded the opportunity to work with Dr. Wieland individually with the Wilson Reading program. This structured, systematic, sequential, multisensory phonics approach provided him with many opportunities to increase his word recognition abilities. This was a great turning point for him and the results were amazing. In no time he was reading novels by Ray Bradbury and American short fiction. We went from this teachers telling us he might never read at grade level to their being impres… Read more

CindyParentAllegany, NY

Public review of Vocabulary Building with Latin & Greek Roots and Affixes, Level 1 on Outschool:

My 7th grade son took this class. I was not home most of the time so my review is from him. He really enjoyed this class. It was not too boring and he enjoyed the teacher. The teacher sometimes went over class time which as a mom I was happy to have her finish the lesson if kids presentations took a little long. My son has taken several classes through Outschool, but this is the only class tha… Read more
MarisaOutschool parent

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Karen M. Wieland, Ph.D
Salamanca, NY 14779

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