The 2025 SMARTER Intervention Summit
We brought it back once. But this is it.
Join us this June in Denver for the SMARTER Summit — a high-impact, hands-on experience designed to give you the clarity, tools, and strategies you need to help struggling readers finally succeed.
We only planned to host this event once. But after last year’s impact, we knew we had to say yes just one more time.
If you’ve been looking for answers — this is your moment.
June 26 & 27, 2025
Denver, CO
The Literacy Event You Can’t Miss -
Literacy scores are dropping across the country — yet educators and families are still expected to move mountains with fewer resources and more pressure than ever.
Schools are spending thousands per student on programs that don’t deliver. Teachers are overwhelmed, compliance is at risk, and the students who need the most support are falling further behind.
The system is broken. It’s not your fault. And this summer, we’re bringing together classroom teachers, interventionists, specialists, administrators and parents — to build a plan that actually works.
Maybe you’ve noticed:
➡️ Intervention results are inconsistent
➡️ Educators are burning out under mounting pressure
➡️ PD feels disconnected from day-to-day realities
➡️ Budget cuts make trial and error feel too risky
You’re doing everything you can — and it still feels like it’s not enough.
It’s exhausting. It’s unsustainable. But it doesn’t have to stay this way.
The 2025 SMARTER Intervention Summit is where we fix it. Together.
The 2-Day Summit that Changes Everything
At the SMARTER Intervention Summit, we don’t just talk theory — we give you a practical plan, proven tools, and the exact steps to implement high-impact literacy support in your unique setting.
You’ll leave with:
✅ A clear, step-by-step intervention plan tailored to your students and your setting
✅ Evidence-based strategies for decoding, fluency, comprehension, and writing
✅ Ready-to-use tools, templates, and progress monitoring guides
✅ A renewed sense of purpose through meaningful PD, connection, and clarity
Whether you’re supporting one student or one hundred, you’ll walk away equipped — and inspired.
See what attendees said about last year's Summit...
Your Most Effective Investment This Year
Stop spending thousands on programs that barely move the needle.
For just $600, you’ll walk away with:
➡️ A clear, customized literacy support plan
➡️ PD and strategies that work with any curriculum
➡️ All meals, beverages, and materials included
➡️ A professional retreat experience — with mountain views and city vibes
Whether you're teaching in a classroom or guiding your child at home, this is your moment to step away from the noise and finally find what works.
📢⏰ Register by June 18th to join us in Denver and experience a different kind of PD.
Here’s How It Works
Register now and secure your spot
then, get ready for a full retreat experience—great food, great people, and powerful reconnection with why you started. No fads or trendy solutions. Just tools that work and people who get it.
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Join us June 26th & 27th in beautiful Denver, CO
Step into a room full of educators, specialists, and parents who care deeply about helping every child succeed — and are ready to build what works.
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Take back everything you need
Leave with ready-to-use tools, clear training, and a step-by-step plan to transform your literacy outcomes in the year ahead.
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✨ What You’ll Walk Away With
The 2025 SMARTER Intervention Summit isn’t just about understanding the Science of Reading, it’s about making it work in real life. Real classrooms. Real kids. Real constraints.
You won’t just sit and listen, you’ll build a personalized, actionable plan to support struggling readers that you can implement right away.
Whether you’re in a classroom, providing intervention, supporting students in special education, or helping your child at home, you’ll leave with clarity on what’s working (and what’s not), a toolkit of proven strategies and supports, a community that shares your mission, and a renewed sense of purpose and possibility!
🔑 What You’ll Learn (and Why It Matters):
🔄 A Fully Aligned Literacy Framework for Elementary and Secondary Learners
Finally connect the dots between the classroom, intervention, and special ed—so no student slips through the cracks. You’ll learn how to build a consistent, research-aligned system that works across roles, grade levels, and settings.
🧠 Executive Functioning as a Literacy Foundation
When students struggle with focus, organization, and follow-through, it impacts everything—from behavior to retention to reading success. You’ll discover how to use our step-by-step EF framework to support your students with strategies that actually stick.
🔤 Phonological & Phonics Instruction at Every Stage
Foundational skills don’t have an expiration date. Whether you're working with early learners or older students who missed key pieces along the way, you’ll learn how to identify and address phonological and phonics gaps with practical, engaging strategies that support both reading and writing success.
📍 From Data to Instruction—Without the Guesswork
Stop collecting data that goes nowhere. Learn how to use a simple, actionable tool to make meaningful decisions with the data you already have—and deliver targeted instruction that gets results.
📘 Accommodations That Make a Difference
Every learner is different, and that matters. We’ll explore simple, effective accommodations for students with dyslexia, ADHD, ELL needs, and other learning differences — whether you’re supporting them at school or at home.
📖 Vocabulary, Comprehension, and Writing Strategies That Stick
Move beyond isolated skill drills. Discover how to teach vocabulary, comprehension, and writing in a way that builds deep understanding—across content areas and across grade levels.
This isn’t your typical PD.
It’s hands-on, high-impact, and designed to leave you with:
✅ A system that works
✅ A plan you believe in
✅ And a renewed sense of energy and excitement
Venue and Accommodations: Your Literacy Retreat in the Heart of Denver
This year’s Summit will be hosted at the Hilton Garden Inn Union Station, a modern, comfortable venue located in downtown Denver, just steps from the city's vibrant food scene, mountain views, and Union Station.
Easy to Get To & Walkable: The venue is accessible directly from the airport via Denver’s metro light rail system, no rental car or Uber required. You can also easily walk to restaurants and entertainment.
Address: 1999 Chestnut Place, Denver, CO 80202
Stay Where the Learning Happens
We’ve secured a limited discounted room block for Summit attendees, so you can stay on-site, roll out of bed, and head straight into transformative sessions without the morning commute.
Once these rooms are gone, they’re gone, and Denver hotels book fast in the summer, we strongly recommend reserving your room early.
🔗 Book Now at the Summit Rate or call the hotel directly at 720-943-5185 and mention the SMARTER Intervention Summit.
Book your room now! Discounted Summit rates are only available through May 25th.
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Moments from last year's summit -
Hosted by Your SMARTER Summit Team
Real educators. Real results. Ready to help you do the same.
We’re a team of educational therapists, special educators, general educators, and researchers who have:
✅ Delivered direct reading intervention to hundreds of students
✅ Analyzed growth trajectories to refine what actually works
✅ Trained thousands of educators around the world
✅Built an intervention system that gets measurable results—even with limited time and resources
We don’t just teach these strategies.
We live them, every day,
in our student clinic, where we’ve analyzed hundreds of student growth trajectories to refine what actually works.
And we’ve trained thousands of interventionists, teachers, and school leaders to do the same.
When we say we get it, we mean it.
We know how hard it is to raise scores with limited time and inconsistent programs. That’s exactly why we created SMARTER Intervention—to give educators the tools, systems, and training they need to finally see measurable, consistent growth in their students.
Join us for the 2025 SMARTER Intervention Summit,
our in-person event of the year!
You don’t have to keep guessing.
Join us this June and walk away with the plan, tools, and support you need to help struggling readers finally thrive.
There are a very limited number of seats available!
Registration ends soon!
“This is the best conference I have ever been to!”
- Terri G., Interventionist
Join Us & Build the Literacy Plan Your Students Deserve,
Before Next Year Begins
Missed last year? Don’t miss your second chance.
If you still have questions -
Check out our FAQs for more information and details about the 2025 SMARTER Intervention Summit.
