Our Program
Academic Associates Learning Centers students are taught individually by patient, caring, qualified instructors, and are never embarrassed or blamed for their difficulties. They blossom as old barriers and limitations crumble. Self-confidence and self-esteem escalate rapidly as their abilities increase.
Academic Associates Reading Program is more than tutoring. It is a step-by-step reading instruction program that provides necessary tools to help students of any age or reading ability become excellent readers, developing:
« Phonemic awareness
« Decoding skills
« Fluency
« Comprehension
Academic Associates Reading Program is more than tutoring. It is a step-by-step reading instruction program that provides necessary tools to help students of any age or reading ability become excellent readers, developing:
« Phonemic awareness
« Decoding skills
« Fluency
« Comprehension
READING SUCCESS FOR CHILDREN, TEENS AND ADULTS
OWNER - DEBBIE DODD
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Debbie Dodd, owner/operator of Academic Associates Learning Center since 2005, has a BA from California State University Long Beach and teaching credentials in elementary education and special education K-12 and is a Reading Instruction Specialist. In addition to teaching in California and Texas she and her husband Rick have home schooled their 4 daughters. |
TEACHER - TINA PIERCE
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Tina Pierce is a certified teacher and Reading Instruction Specialist for Academic Associates Reading Program. Tina is a creative, innovative teacher and we are grateful to have her as an instructor at our center since 2009. |
STUDENTS IN OUR PROGRAM
READ, GROW, AND SUCCEED!
The founder - cliff Ponder
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Cliff Ponder, an elementary school principal and teacher for 20 years, was frustrated that large numbers of students couldn't learn to read. After leaving school administration, he studied exciting new research on the neural architecture of the brain and began developing a logical, step-by-step method of teaching reading that would work in harmony with the brain. The Academic Associates™ Reading Course was launched in 1985. Since then it has helped thousands of students of all ages in schools and reading clinics across the United States and in several different countries.
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Serving Students in Dallas, Tx Metroplex area
THE PRESIDENT OF ACADEMIC ASSOCIATES®
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Faith Manguba opened her first center in the summer of 2010 and has served hundreds of students since then- teaching non-readers and turning them into readers. She began her career as a classroom teacher. After teaching for several years and seeing the need for students to learn to read, she started her Academic Associates® reading business, teaching kids to read out of her home. The program was so successful that she went from teaching two students in February to 30 by summer. Cliff Ponder passed the presidency of the Academic Associates Learning Centers® and Academic Associates Reading Program® to Faith in June 2016.
Alpha Reading Center is proud to be the headquarters for the Academic Associates Learning Centers® which is used throughout the United States and around the globe. |
