About Verticy

An Effective Solution for Your Student's Reading and Writing Challenges

What Makes Verticy Learning Unique?

Verticy Learning presents a comprehensive educational program that addresses the specific language arts needs of these students while keeping them on academic pace with their peers in all subject areas. We employ instructional methods and technology tools that help students overcome their reading challenges and gain confidence in their ability to learn.

Verticy's approach involves four critical components:

1) Address the specific needs of students with LLDs using specialized techniques and technology

Verticy Learning applies the same educational approach used at the prestigious Jemicy School, where the faculty has successfully taught hundreds of elementary and middle-school students with LLDs over the last 35 years. Jemicy's expert team of instructors has developed dynamic and effective teaching techniques incorporating the time-tested Orton-Gillingham method of multi-sensory learning. These techniques have been applied to the renowned Calvert School curriculum creating an intense academic program. Your student receives a comprehensive education as he or she overcomes reading and writing challenges. Valuable computer-based applications are integrated throughout the program to support other aspects of the Verticy program and to help your child become a confident, independent reader.

2) Speak with a variety of instructional "voices"

Instruction is usually delivered in the home, most often a parent or tutor. However, the student benefits from a variety of instructional voices. Some lessons are delivered through rich, multimedia, web-based content such as instructional videos, game-based math supplements, and literature selections which are "read" by an online tool. In addition, Verticy's Education Counselors reinforce the instruction delivered in the home and support the Learning Guide as needed with advice, answers, or assistance. Parents also have the option of engaging the support of a Verticy Advisory Teacher or Live Tutor. These learning professionals provide feedback, analysis, and encouragement through highly personalized interactions with your student.

3) Meet students where they are academically

Verticy Learning's Course Configuration process ensures that your student is placed at an appropriate point in the curriculum to maximize academic success. Your student will take an online screening assessment and a thorough placement evaluation to determine his or her baseline language arts skills, core subject competency, and math level, depending on which version of the program the student will be enrolled. A full-year, 160 lesson course is then recommended.

4) Support self-pacing among subjects

Students enrolled in Verticy Learning enjoy the benefit of self-pacing. Verticy's one-on-one instructional setting allows the student and Learning Guide to accelerate the learning pace in certain areas and to focus more attention on subjects or lessons requiring additional review or remediation.

Verticy Learning encourages your child to discover new ways of learning the foundations of reading and writing through specialized curriculum, innovative teaching techniques, and computer-based learning tools. This discovery leads to a more empowered student who is able to achieve academic success and recapture the wonder of independent learning.