Lee Pesky Learning Center

Counselors, clinicians, and teachers at the Center work with approximately 200 clients per week, conducting educational evaluations, one-on-one specialized instruction and/or counseling to children and young adults with Learning differences or disabilities. The typical student comes to the Center twice a week for hour-long sessions. The Center also offers services to parents giving them tips on everything from homework to relationship building. Services are provided online and at two locations in boise, and hailey, Idaho.

Through grant funding and contracts the Center continues to provide training and resources to early childhood educators and parents. We train child care providers to use research-based early literacy instructional methods to better prepare preschoolers for school, and we distribute our every child ready to learn booklets, abc Learning mats and literacy Learning mats to parents. The Center also is contributing to research projects with professors from different universities. One project is validating our self-regulated learner framework and another project is refining our academic coaching model.

Training and consultation delivers a variety of classes and specialized training to teachers, schools, and school districts in research-based methods of teaching literacy. During the year, the Center taught classes to teachers and consulted with school districts and the Idaho department of education working with over 900 teachers. The Center's training and consultation services help Idaho school districts as they work to implement the common core standards.