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Elon University is featuring a variety of photos every month to highlight the exceptional learning, work and activities of students, faculty and staff.

The school, which opened on Aug. 18, is North Carolina's only university-based private school for children with dyslexia.

In the annual start of school celebration, President Connie Ledoux Book looked back at Elon's path of progress and charted a way forward.

Experienced educators in physical education, art, dance and music will bring decades of collective expertise to students who enroll this fall at the university’s new full-day, private elementary school serving children with dyslexia.

As the 2026-27 academic year begins, Elon University is opening a new school, launching innovative new programs and constructing new facilities for the campus community.

Major construction projects completed this summer and underway across campus will enhance student wellness, academic spaces and campus infrastructure in the coming years.

Meet the first full-time classroom teachers of the university’s new private elementary school for children with dyslexia set to open in August.

From flexible furniture for kids who fidget to desks with writable surfaces to walls to be filled with student projects, writing and artwork, renovations are stirring the imaginations of those designing a temporary location for Elon University’s new private elementary school for children with dyslexia.

Recently retired from Guilford County Schools in North Carolina, Tracy Roof will help develop systems and policies for a full-day, private transitional school set to open on campus in August for children with dyslexia.

An in-depth report by one of North Carolina's leading news stations detailed the Orton-Gillingham multisensory approach to reading instruction to be used starting this fall when Elon University opens a private school for children with dyslexia.