Kristen Rodgers, MS, C/OGA

Learning Services Specialist

Kristen is a Certified Level Orton-Gillingham Educator with nearly 20 years’ experience supporting K–9 students in public and private schools and through private tutoring. She specializes in structured literacy and multisensory phonics and provides targeted, evidence-based instruction for dyslexia, reading delay, and struggling readers and writers.

  • Orton-Gillingham Academy, Certified Level
  • Windward Teacher Training Institute, Advanced training in reading and writing instruction such as Preventing Academic Failure (PAF) and Judith Hockman’s Writing Revolution
  • University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA; Bilingual Education
  • University of Vermont, BS; Elementary Education

  • Provides Orton-Gillingham multisensory phonics instruction (structured literacy) and intervention that is both diagnostic and prescriptive
  • Offer 1:1 or small-group instruction
  • Conduct assessments in key areas such as handwriting, alphabet concepts, phonemic awareness, decoding, spelling, fluency, comprehension, grammar and written expression to determine areas of strength and areas for potential growth
  • Regularly monitor progress to ensure continuous improvement
  • Communicate with parents and parent-approved professionals related to your child's education.

  • Provide private reading and writing tutoring for over eight years
  • Mentor a cohort of special education teachers through Literacy How
  • Worked as a Long-term substitute reading specialist at New Canaan Country School
  • Participant in the two-year teacher training program at The Windward Middle School
  • Taught elementary grade students in the classroom for ten years

  • Student-centered, data-driven instruction tailored to learning profiles
  • Guided by Anna Gillingham’s philosophy: “I go as fast as I can, and as slow as I must”
  • Proven gains in decoding, reading fluency, comprehension, spelling, and confidence
  • Collaborative partner with families and schools

In my free time, I enjoy spending time with my husband, three daughters, and two dogs. I am a beginner golfer and I like to run, ski, hike, practice Bikram yoga, play Mahjong and do needlepoint.