Take Flight Learning: Revolutionizing Education and Training Through Innovative Programs

Take Flight Learning offers a variety of training programs, products, books, and services designed to enhance learning and development across various domains. From flight simulation powered by artificial intelligence to dyslexia intervention and DISC-based personality assessments, Take Flight Learning employs innovative techniques to engage learners, improve outcomes, and foster lasting change.

Accelerating Flight Training with TakeFlight Interactive

TakeFlight Interactive is a cutting-edge training platform designed by pilots for pilots-from student aviators to airline cadets and military professionals-to help them master maneuvers and procedures before ever stepping into the cockpit. Powered by artificial intelligence, TakeFlight enhances real-world aviation training by saving time, reducing costs, and building lasting confidence where it matters most-in the air. TakeFlight turns Microsoft Flight Simulator, X-Plane, and other high-fidelity platforms into a virtual flight school.

AI-Powered Flight Instruction

TakeFlight Interactive transforms your favorite flight simulator into an AI powered, self-guided training platform. Pilots practice maneuvers and procedures in a structured environment built around industry and military standards, with real-time audible and visual feedback and precise performance scoring.

Structured Learning Experience

The briefing delivers a structured overview that includes maneuver descriptions, key concepts, and step-by-step procedures reinforced with clear graphical illustrations. The structured Training → Evaluation → Challenge framework strengthens engagement by emphasizing meaningful learning and measurable outcomes, then reinforces those skills with fun and engaging training aids-such as 3D hoops and tunnels-that put your abilities to the test. Learn each maneuver and procedure step-by-step with a fully interactive AI flight instructor giving verbal and visual cues throughout the flight. Practice independently in a realistic simulator environment.

Real-World Impact

The TakeFlight Interactive software allows the user a personal flight lesson-type experience. The students who used the software were captivated and challenged. The software offered positive feedback to students, and timely corrections when the student was not responding. All-in-all, the students enjoyed the experience.

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Many users have lauded TakeFlight for its effectiveness in preparing students for real-world flight scenarios. For example, one flight student "nailed a perfect crosswind landing in the airplane after using TFI," marking his first successful attempt in an actual aircraft. This underscores the program's ability to translate simulated experiences into tangible skills. Similarly, TakeFlight has proven invaluable in youth aviation programs, where young aviators demonstrate "real flying skills in the airframe" after just a few hours of training.

Addressing Dyslexia with Take Flight: A Comprehensive Intervention

Take Flight: A Comprehensive Intervention for Students with Dyslexia is a two-year Orton-Gillingham-based curriculum written by the staff of the Luke Waites Center for Dyslexia and Learning Disorders at Scottish Rite for Children (SRC) in Dallas, Texas. It was built on the successes of three previous dyslexia interventions developed by the staff of SRC: Alphabetic Phonics, Dyslexia Training Program, and TSRH Literacy Program. Take Flight is an evidence-based curriculum backed by research.

Structured Literacy Approach

Take Flight = Structured Literacy. Structured literacy is explicit, systematic teaching that focuses on phonological awareness, phonics and decoding, spelling, vocabulary development, comprehension skills, and written expression.

Key Components of Effective Reading Instruction

Take Flight addresses the five components of effective reading instruction identified by the National Reading Panel’s research and is a comprehensive Tier III intervention for students with dyslexia.

Phonemic Awareness: Follows established procedures for explicitly teaching the relationships between speech-sound production and spelling-sound patterns.
Phonics: Provides a systematic approach to single-word decoding. Students learn 96 grapheme-phoneme correspondences.
Fluency: Uses research-proven directed practice in the repeated reading of words, phrases, and passages to help students read a newly encountered text more fluently.
Vocabulary: Features multiple-word learning strategies (definitional, structural, contextual) and explicit teaching techniques with application in the text. Students learn 87 affixes with an emphasis on English morphology. Students learn Latin roots and Greek combining forms.
Reading Comprehension: Students are explicitly taught how to apply and articulate multiple comprehension strategies for narrative and expository text through cooperative learning, story structure, asking and answering questions, summarization, and comprehension monitoring.

Multisensory Learning

In order to enhance learning and memory, all learning pathways in the brain (visual - auditory - kinesthetic - tactile) are engaged simultaneously.

Implementation and Training

Take Flight is designed for use by a Certified Academic Language Therapist for individuals with dyslexia ages 7 and older. Certified Academic Language Therapists (CALTs) are not tutors. They are specially trained to work with students with dyslexia and related language-based learning differences. They have completed extensive training in a structured language education program at a training center or university that offers courses accredited by the International Multisensory Structured Language Education Council (IMSLEC).

Program Components

Take Flight contains the five components of effective reading instruction supported by the National Reading Panel research meta-analysis and mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act: phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency and reading comprehension. With Take Flight, students will learn all 44 sounds of the English language, 96 letter - sound correspondence rules and 87 affixes. The student will also learn spelling rules for base words and derivatives. Practice opportunities are also provided that are designed to improve oral reading fluency. Finally, Take Flight introduces comprehension and vocabulary building strategies for both narrative and expository text in the context of oral reading exercises to prepare students for successful, independent reading.

Impact and Reach

Students who complete Take Flight instruction show significant growth in all areas of reading skill. Follow-up research with children who completed treatment indicates that students maintain the benefits of instruction on word reading skills and continue to improve in reading comprehension. Take Flight is effective when used in schools by therapists with advanced training in remediation of students with dyslexia. Students with the lowest reading skills acquire the strongest gains from Take Flight instruction.

There are 109 instructors that teach Take Flight to other dyslexia therapists representing 24 training courses. Because of this work with instructors and therapists, Take Flight is servicing children in 46 states and nine countries. Our team is now reaching more than 20,000 new students with dyslexia each year.

Additional Programs

Scottish Rite for Children also offers other supplemental programs:

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Rite Flight: A Classroom Reading Rate Program: was designed for use by classroom teachers, reading specialists and special education teachers with first through eighth grade students to help students increase their reading rate and fluency. It can be used as supplemental or intervention instruction for individuals, small groups or the whole classroom.
Rite Flight: A Classroom Comprehension Program: may be integrated into a core reading program as a supplement to address reading comprehension more completely. It is designed for use by classroom teachers, reading specialists or special education teachers with first through eighth grade students as a tool for intensified comprehension intervention for struggling readers.
Build: A K-1 Early Reading Intervention: is a 100-lesson reading intervention. Build is a small group intervention that addresses the five specific components of reading intervention. Each component is taught developmentally using a direct, systematic, cumulative, multisensory method of introduction and practice to meet the specific needs of kindergarten and first grade students struggling in reading.
Bridges: A Dyslexia Intervention Connecting Teacher, Avatar & Student: is a two-year curriculum that can be taught by a certified teacher. The avatar, Ms. Hallie, co-teaches by delivering the more complex aspects of the structured dyslexia intervention.
Jet: A Fast-Paced Reading Intervention: is a one-year curriculum that builds on the success of the four previous dyslexia intervention programs developed by the staff of Scottish Rite for Children. It was developed for individuals with dyslexia fourteen years and older.

Enhancing Team Dynamics and Communication with DISC

Take Flight Learning grew out of Team Builders Plus, which was established as one of the first team building companies in the United States in 1991. Based on more than two decades of experience with the DISC model, Take Flight Learning is the leading DISC training company in the US.

The Power of "The Birds"

In 2012, Merrick Rosenberg breathed new life into this age-old model by linking the styles to birds in his books, Taking Flight! and The Chameleon. The Taking Flight with DISC training program teaches people how to incorporate the four styles in their life. Unlike most DISC providers who have a single DISC training program, Take Flight Learning offers a variety of DISC training sessions, products, and services.

By learning about the Eagles, Parrots, Doves and Owls, people will increase self-awareness, better understand team dynamics and learn how to interact with others more effectively and compassionately. The bird styles will become a part of each individual’s daily conversations and will get infused into your cultural DNA.

Training Programs

From there, leaders can learn how to incorporate the styles into their daily behaviors in Chameleon Leadership and salespeople can take Chameleon Selling. Keep the learning going with Taking Flight with EQ, ReDISCovering Conflict, and Innovating IDEAs. Take Flight Learning can lead sessions for you, or you can get certified to deliver your own engaging and impactful style-based training programs. Our certifications go beyond interpreting graphs. You will learn how to conduct activities to make the training an experiential experience. And if you’re looking for a keynote speaker, Merrick Rosenberg has literally written the book on the four styles.

Team Dynamics Training

High Performing teams require talent 𝘢𝘯𝘥 trust. They're connected and committed to each other because they ritualize meaningful interactions that make them greater than the sum of its parts. High Performing teams are driven by leaders who intentionally create a culture that enables each person to thrive, because they're empowered to use their style's strengths to contribute to team and organizational success. That deepened connection and elevated sense of contribution are at the core of our Team Dynamics training program.

Ideal for intact teams or cross-functional, interdependent groups, Team Dynamics brings people closer together in a way that leads to higher trust, greater collaboration and the co-creation of a better culture. This program can range anywhere from three hours to a full day and makes for an ideal Q1 learning experience.

Real-World Application

Taking Flight with DISC has become a core element of our organizational culture. The shared language of ‘the birds’ has helped us recognize, understand, and celebrate the unique perspectives of each style, leading to increased empathy, accountability, and trust. After realizing the value of DISC in our own team, we began sharing it with our clients as well to help their teams reach their fullest potential. Merrick’s Taking Flight with DISC program has completely transformed our entire 60-person plus organization. It is a major component of our culture, as it helps us put the right people in the right seats on the bus, it helps us build better (diversified) teams, and it helps us communicate more effectively amongst ourselves (one-on-one, intra-departmentally, and inter-departmentally).

DISC for Kids

Ideal for kids 8-12 years-old, children will discover whether they're the Eagle, Parrot, Dove or Owl style, and that means for their life in school, at home and with their friends. There's also a section in each report for parents to give them a deeper understanding of what makes their child tick. And teachers and coaches can use these profiles to better teach, guide and support the child in the classroom and on the field of play.

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