Svetlana was a K-3 classroom teacher for 10 years before receiving a Masters in Literacy Leadership with a Reading Specialist credential at San Diego State University. She served as a K-8 Reading Specialist for five years in California and Maryland. Having recently defended her dissertation titled “Teacher Knowledge and Beliefs Regarding Sight Word Development”, Svetlana hopes to continue her work as an action research practitioner in collaboration with schools and classroom teachers.
Her focus is to bridge the latest neuroeducational findings to establish efficacious classroom literacy instruction, particularly in early preventative methods. Her vision is to disrupt the reading failure status quo through evidence validated instruction so that far more students are on the path to becoming skilled readers and spellers from the very first day of Kindergarten. Svetlana currently serves as a private remediation specialist for clients of all ages with varying individual learning differences such as Dyslexia using EBLI’s structured linguistic phonics approaches.
K-Adult Private Remediation Tutor | self-employed, Zoom [2022 –Present]
Title I Reading Specialist and Interventionist (K-8) | Elementary & Middle schools, CA/MD [2015-2019]
K-3 Classroom Teacher | Escondido, CA [2004-2015]
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