Janice Schreiber-Poznik, M.S.

Reading/Dyslexia Specialist

Owner and Director

Janice holds a Bachelor’s degree in Education and a Master’s degree in Education as a K-12 Reading Specialist. She has studied and implemented effective evidence based reading instruction for 25 years in private, public and tribal school settings. She created the Madison Reading and Learning Center to meet the literacy needs of Dane County youth and adults. Janice is trained in Beginning and Advanced Orton-Gillingham; Project Read’s Phonology, Written Expression, and Comprehension strands; Lindamood-Bell’s LiPPS, Visualizing and Verbalizing; Wilson Reading System and Direct Instruction. She also leads professional development graduate level courses in scientifically proven and evidence-based reading instruction for students with learning challenges and dyslexia.

Randy Converse

Randy is a Special Education Assistant in the Madison Metropolitan School District in addition to tutoring at MRLC since 1999.  He says he loves “working with intellectually stimulating colleagues.”   Randy and his wife have two daughters.  His hobbies include T’ai Chi, eating with concern for nutrition and biking.  Randy has a passion for teaching reading.  Randy is certified in both the Basic and Advanced Orton-Gillingham.  He has been trained in Project Read's Reading Comprehension Method. He has also used the Wilson Reading System extensively over the past 8 years.

 

“Reading is a basic survival skill.  Helping students achieve competence in this skill is important to me.”

 

Mary Usher

Mary has been with the MRLC for the past two years.  Mary’s family includes her husband, their son and daughter as well as their dog, Maddie.  Mary enjoys volunteering at Hospice Care, golfing, traveling and cheering on the UW Badger football and basketball teams.  Mary received her B.S. in Community Health Education from UW LaCrosse.  She has extensive experience in tutoring skills; she has been tutoring for 20 years. She is certified in Basic and Advanced Orton-Gillingham.  She is also trained in Early Intervention Reading, Accelerated Reader, and Keys to Understanding Dyslexia, Project Read- “Written Expressions” and Reading, as well as Direct Instruction in reading, spelling, decoding and language learning. 

 

“I love tutoring because of the interaction with students and families.  I really enjoy helping a student become a life long learner.”

 

Kate Dobson

Kate received her undergraduate degree in Liberal Studies from Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia. She earned her Master’s degree in Communication Disorders from San Francisco State University. Kate is trained in Lindamood-Bell and she has specialized training in speech and language pathology, language processing, articulation, accent reduction. With over ten years of teaching experience, she is a great addition to the MRLC team which she joined in June of 2011. Kate loves spending time with her husband and twin boys at local playgrounds and libraries as well as biking and cross country skiing.

“It is very exciting to see the progress kids make here at MRLC!”