Reading Intervention, Monitoring, and Accountability
Children learn to read until 3rd grade, they read to learn the rest of their lives.
Every Student Succeeds
We must do "Whatever it Takes, with Care and Kindness"
Teachers are paired with small tutoring caseloads to allow for 1:1 and small group intensive instruction based on individual student needs. Much like a doctor, the teacher makes an appointment with the student and prescribes an intervention tailored to the students specific needs.
Title I Reading Specialists at each school serve as "Reading Case Workers" who monitor students' progress year after year through transition to Middle and High School.
Ongoing progress monitoring is key to knowing if interventions are working, along with targeting interventions to the specific needs of the student. This may include acceleration once students are reading at grade level. Ongoing, long-term monitoring is essential to ensuring the long-term success of the student.
Continuous progress monitoring and recordkeeping help ensure accountability so no student "slips through the cracks." This process tracks academic and social-emotional student data so we can establish student's history and pinpoint when, where, and why a student made, or failed to make progress - holding everyone from the tutor, teacher, and case-worker to the principal, district office, and the whole academic community responsible for ensuring student success.-"Every student succeeds, whatever it takes."
Contact shawncrosier@susd.org to get more information on the Beyond Move On When Reading Initiative