Much Ado About RtI

The Reading & Literacy Committee met this morning to celebrate successes and to discuss Tier 2 & 3 reading and writing interventions for struggling students.

We started the meeting celebrating the completed grant applications that Jennette completed including the Lit Works grant aimed at reluctant readers and Picturing America, a grant from the NEA.

Great news! The School Improvement Plan has been officially approved! Thanks to everyone that contributed to this document and thanks to everyone who will be involved with its implementation.

The ABE Book Celebration will take place after school in the library on Thursday, April 16th.

Michelle Felde, the chair of the Response to Intervention (RtI) Committee, presented four interventions to the R&L Committee.

Two Computer Based Interventions:
Kurzweil Educational Systems is a reading and writing intervention that will implemented by the Special Education Department next year in the Reading and Writing Labs.

Lexia is another program that was being investigated by the Special Education Department and has been used in other school districts with success.

Two Teacher Led Interventions:
Corrective Reading is an intervention targeted at students with low decoding and comprehension skills.

Wilson Language Training is a system that has potential for assisting ELLs.

The Reading & Literacy Committee recommended that the RtI Committee proceed with training a teacher with either the CR Intervention or the Wilson Language System this spring and pilot the two systems with students next fall.

The R&L Committee's next meeting will be on Wednesday, May 6 at 7AM in the Board Room.