Texas CPE • Science of Reading: Structured Literacy Foundations for All Educators, PreK–12 • 45 Clock Hours
Course Fee: $99 — 45 clock hours of Texas CPE from a TEA-approved CPE provider (provider number 910094)
How It Works
- ✅ Course Fee: $99 — enroll now for instant access. Nothing else to pay.
- ✅ 45 clock hours of CPE toward your 150-hour Texas certificate renewal
- ✅ TEA-approved CPE provider — For Teachers By Teachers, provider number 910094
- 🕐 Finish anytime — fully self-paced and 100% online
✔ Includes the Texas Module: Educating Students with Disabilities and Dyslexia — the disabilities-and-dyslexia training Texas requires of every educator (19 TAC §232.11), built into the course
✔ Quiz-based format — no busywork or portfolio
✔ Your certificate lists what 19 TAC §232.21 requires: provider name and number, your name, completion date, course content, and 45 clock hours
✔ Renewing your certificate? Four courses = 180 clock hours — your full 150-hour renewal with 30 hours to spare. Ask us about the Texas renewal bundle.
Enroll today for just $99
No university fees, no registration forms — just the course and your Texas CPE certificate.
Course Description:
Something remarkable is happening in reading education. Across the country — in more than forty states and counting — schools are returning to what decades of research tell us about how children actually learn to read. This course is your complete, teacher-friendly guide to that science: what it says, why it matters, and exactly what to do with it in your classroom.
Science of Reading: Structured Literacy Foundations for All Educators walks you through the full arc of evidence-based reading instruction — how the brain builds its reading circuitry, why phonemic awareness and systematic phonics form the foundation, how fluency, vocabulary, and background knowledge power comprehension, how to recognize and support struggling readers (including students with characteristics of dyslexia), and how to bring structured literacy into any grade level or content area. Every module translates the research into plain language and practical moves you can use Monday morning.
You'll finish with your own Literacy Action Plan — a personalized, step-by-step roadmap for bringing the science of reading to the students you serve, whatever your role and wherever you teach.
What You'll Learn:
- How the Reading Brain Works: Why reading isn't natural the way spoken language is — and why that makes skilled teaching so powerful. You'll master the Simple View of Reading and Scarborough's Reading Rope, two research-validated frameworks that explain exactly what skilled reading requires.
- Phonemic Awareness & Systematic Phonics: The difference between phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, and phonics — and how explicit, systematic instruction, paired with decodable texts, builds confident word-readers from the very first lessons.
- Fluency, Vocabulary & Comprehension: How to build the bridge from decoding to deep understanding, with evidence-based routines for fluency practice, vocabulary that sticks, and knowledge-rich comprehension instruction.
- Recognizing & Supporting Struggling Readers: What dyslexia is (and isn't), how screening and progress monitoring work, and how MTSS layers support so every reader gets what they need — all through a strengths-based lens that honors every learner's capability.
- Structured Literacy Across the Curriculum: The six principles of structured literacy and how to weave them into every subject and grade level — including support for multilingual and diverse learners — plus your own step-by-step Literacy Action Plan.
Why Educators Love This Course:
- Practical From Day One: Every concept connects to real classroom application — concrete strategies, sample routines, and ready-to-use tools you can bring to your students immediately.
- Hopeful and Strengths-Based: This course reframes reading difficulty the way the science does — not as something wrong with a child, but as skills we can name, assess, and strengthen, with dignity at the center.
- Flexible and Teacher-Friendly: 100% self-paced and online. Complete modules anytime, anywhere — no meetings, no start dates, no due dates.
- Grounded in Research, Written for Real Classrooms: Built on the findings of the National Reading Panel and current structured literacy scholarship — explained in warm, plain language, never jargon.
Transform Your Teaching:
Whether you teach PreK or 12th grade, reading intervention or high-school history, this course will change how you see every reader in front of you. You'll understand what's happening when reading clicks, what to do when it doesn't, and how to be the confident, informed advocate your students need.
You don't need to be working with students right now to participate fully — classroom teachers, specialists, coaches, counselors, administrators, and educators between roles are all welcome and supported.
Enroll Today:
Earn 3 graduate-level credits (45 hours) while building the literacy knowledge every educator deserves. Teachers across the country are stepping into the science of reading — step in feeling equipped, hopeful, and ready.
Self-Paced, Quiz-Based, and Completely Online
Forget portfolios or lengthy written assignments — this is stress-free professional learning designed with YOU in mind. With no start dates and no due dates, you can begin and finish the course whenever it’s convenient. You don’t need to be working with students to complete it, and there are no scheduled meetings. The course is 100% self-paced and self-guided — so you can work whenever and wherever it fits your life.
⭐ Built for Texas educators
Open to Texas teachers, counselors, librarians, specialists, and administrators who need CPE clock hours for standard certificate renewal. Classroom teachers renew on 150 clock hours every five years; principals, counselors, librarians, educational diagnosticians and reading specialists renew on 200 (19 TAC §232.11). Every course here is 45 clock hours and includes the disabilities-and-dyslexia training Texas requires.
✶ Your certificate: when you finish, we email you a Texas CPE certificate from For Teachers By Teachers, TEA-approved CPE provider number 910094, showing your name, the completion date, the course content, and 45 clock hours. Keep it with your renewal records — Texas asks educators to maintain documentation of completed CPE (19 TAC §232.16).
Your Instructor
For Teachers By Teachers is led by a highly credentialed team of licensed educators with professional certifications spanning PK–12 education. Our collective expertise includes Special Education, Reading Specialist practice, Art Education, and a broad range of PK–12 specialties, grounded in decades of real-world classroom and school-based experience.
We create flexible, high-quality online learning for educators, created by educators who understand the demands of the classroom and are committed to meaningful, practical growth.
For questions or support, contact info@forteachersbyteachers.org