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I watched a teacher in action using Heggerty. The kids know the routine and it covers so much! We celebrated her at the staff meeting yesterday.

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We got back to 2018 levels on NWEA! Growth of almost 9%. We're starting to buy in on small group 2x week

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Recently lead a workshop of CTE teachers about how to use AI to quickly generate differentiated reading materials to bring content within students' reach.

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As hard and exhausting as it is to stay on this path to literacy for all, I feel totally supported by my admin team as my school's first literacy coach. We completed universal screening for K-6 with mCLASS DIBELS, and rolled out school wide assessment systems for the first time! Did teachers love it? NO. But they do see the value in the data.

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-designated ELA intervention support

-teachers implementing phonetics review

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A teacher is building a chain in a high school classroom - one link for each book a student has finished.

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DIBELS assessments and now reviewing data : )

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I'm at a county office...and I am now running 2 cohorts of LETRS, one Getting Reading Right: Filling in the Gaps at the Secondary Classroom, a Literacy Coaches Network, coordinating ERWC for my region, and offering TA to our school districts around the Science of Reading!

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More intentional use of academic vocabulary strategies in classrooms.

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Seeing small group instruction using data to target areas of need.

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We went up 6% in ELA on CAASPP in 2025!

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In kinder, a teacher was running a Heggrety video and the teacher sat on the rug with her class. She was modeling how to respond and do the hand motions. As time went on, she was able to have the student resond to her doing the lessons now.

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Benchmark results that show growth in classrooms where literacy is a big focus!

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Many teachers working together to identify essential standards and CFA's

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On a district-level, we hosted an explicit vocab instruction workshop and teachers from across the district reviewed strategies and ed tech tools to easily plan for and incorporate academic vocab into their lessons

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Our teachers in our 3rd grade is fully implemented every day SIPPS.

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Implementation of early literacy programs in TK-5th grade classrooms.

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Implementation of early literacy programs in TK-5th grade classrooms.

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strong implementation of UFLI K-2 and using progress monitoring to inform small group instruction

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Using SOR to target specific skills.

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Focus/word walls featuring high-frequency words, academic vocab or thematic terms

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Focus/word walls featuring high-frequency words, academic vocab or thematic terms

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We are celebrating our TK readers who come to read with us in our offices!

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We are celebrating our TK readers who come to read with us in our offices!

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SIPPS groups are going well along with small group targeted instruction.

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SIPPS groups are going well along with small group targeted instruction.

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We led teachers in PD, and now we observe small (2- 5 min) moments of writing across the middle school content areas throughout the day.

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Literacy Design Team, creating a TK-8 literacy framework

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Progress Monitoring (DIBELS) is happening every two weeks which has guided instruction - skills addressed in small group targeted instruction.

Heggerty/ UFLi lessons going on in all K-2 classrooms

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95% Group in Tier 2 intervention

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Our teachers are still very passionate about ensuring that DEAR time is used for active reading! We also just hosted an awesome presentation for teachers on building academic vocabulary.

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I watched students learning how to use context clues while reading.

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Starting to dig into our DIBELS data!

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One of our teachers who was "stuck" and afraid to try UFLI requested a demo lesson and started regular UFLI lessons.

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Students are excited to buy a pass to sit in the principal's chair and read aloud to the principal. Students are excited about reading and want to show off!!

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We are excited to use the Dibels data to show our growth from our focus on literacy

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School wide buy in to our focus of literacy with staff supporting each other and our students on a daily basis.  This has created more student engagement and effort by our students to read more.  We also introduced our new book vending machine. 

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School wide buy in to our focus of literacy with staff supporting each other and our students on a daily basis.  This has created more student engagement and effort by our students to read more.  We also introduced our new book vending machine. 

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Observe implementation of literacy adopted programs in the classrooms during walkthroughs

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Observe implementation of literacy adopted programs in the classrooms during walkthroughs

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Teachers are enhancing their small group instruction with engaging literacy lessons. Also intentional use of decodables.

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Staff meeting around Structured Literacy.

Started intervention in small groups with UFLI.

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We have a current first grader who started as an English Learner with Telugu as his first native language last year at the beginning of Kindergarten. He is now reading in English!

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It is becoming more and more evident that our efforts are becoming foundational. Upper grade teachers are willing to visit other teachers.

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Scholastic Literacy Coach on campus working with teachers on scope and sequence plans and creating 5-week plans. We started WIN time with one grade level. We are hoping to expand to other grade levels throughout the year. 

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Scholastic Literacy Coach on campus working with teachers on scope and sequence plans and creating 5-week plans. We started WIN time with one grade level. We are hoping to expand to other grade levels throughout the year. 

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Seeing an impact with teachers working on explicit academic vocabulary instruction, along with reading, during our advisory time. We've been noticing more explicit vocab instruction in regular lessons as well as digging in to active reading strategies.

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Shout out to our Kinder team b/c our 1st grade data looks good, and the 1st team says that they attribute it to the work the Kinder team did to prepare the students. The team appreciates UFLI and the growth they have seen in their students.

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We're meeting with our teachers who have earned the RLAA authorization to discuss developing "Literacy Coaches"

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At the high school level, we are having a discussion of how to implement literacy strategies and supports across all subjects. This is leading to discussions on how to help our students in all subject areas.

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Literacy Coach has provided monthly PD with each grade level around phonological awareness. 

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Literacy Coach has provided monthly PD with each grade level around phonological awareness. 

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Modeling Evidence-Based Discourse Structures at every staff meeting, including later today...

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Modeling Evidence-Based Discourse Structures at every staff meeting, including later today...

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Grade-Level Teams are monitoring student growth data and making instructional shifts to ensure that all students receive what they need during intervention. Grade-level teams are celebrating the growth students are making, as most students are showing growth on STAR Reading and CFAs.

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Had the difficult conversation with teachers who are not implementing with fidelity. Finding out the why and how I can support.

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Implementing interventions from DIBELS data

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Implementing interventions from DIBELS data

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Adding additional Scholastic reading coaching days to the school year. Jan, Feb, and March 

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Adding additional Scholastic reading coaching days to the school year. Jan, Feb, and March 

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We are starting to triangulate our data with our iReady scores and our Reading Difficulties Screener as a team.

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Two whole-group staff meetings- During the first one, a specific discourse structure was modeled and practiced. Second one- all staff remembered how it worked and could practice again. During walk-throughs, 1 class was observed using that structure in the 5-7 minute walk-throughs conducted at random times.

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Literacy Basic Skills Foundations Implementation

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Literacy Basic Skills Foundations Implementation

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Visiting classrooms, primary teachers, including our DI classrooms, have really taken hold and implementing better Heggerty and UFLI.

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Students are improving in reading, based on SIPPS and DIBELS.

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Showed the 44 Phonemes video at our staff meeting for our TK-8th grade teachers. Some of our teachers participated in the Diving Deeper webinars and we had a discussion related to the syllabication topic.

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Our teachers all received a copy of the Climbing The Ladder of Reading & Writing

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Our leadership team met to craft an updated literacy goal K-5 and the result was an explicit focus on foundational skills through fidelity across all classrooms 

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Our leadership team met to craft an updated literacy goal K-5 and the result was an explicit focus on foundational skills through fidelity across all classrooms 

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District Program Specialists taught key literacy strategies aligned to CTE technical and academic vocabulary to all district CTE teachers. Also, helped CTE teachers access initial literacy screening results for their CTE students to help identify proficiency needs.

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Data shows growth towards iReady goals and excitement on the high possibiity of going beyond.

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We met our schoolwide goal for our first trimester related to our Star assessments.

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Met with Literacy team to begin identifying school-day lieracy interventions. With little funding, we have to be very creative!

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-Conducted learning walks to highlight student learning.

-Learning UFLI with teachers.

-Utilizing DIBELS to creat interventios with UFLI in upper grade.

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Targeted explicitSOR strategies, with of use of assessment to drive tier 1 instruction.

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Preliminary schools are improving both reading intervention teacher and tutoring seems to be helping.

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During walkthroughs, we increased reading instruction during small-group centers, which led to an increase in I-Ready Reading Proficiency Scores from 13% to 24%.

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Watched a teacher in action reviewing vocabulary and I joined in with students. It helps with engagement.

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Watched a teacher in action reviewing vocabulary and I joined in with students. It helps with engagement.

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We finally landed on a curriculum resource for K-2. Working on 3-6 next! :)

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Moving towards the implementation of a district literacy team to drive the work.

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We've stuck to our commitment of modeling (mostly Kagan) productive peer-to-peer structured student discourse in all staff meetings and have weekly walkthroughs where all teachers get feedback as to whether it was seen or how they could have incorporated it during walkthroughs (ideas).

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We have our Scholastic Ready 4 Reading coach on site today. She was here yesterday and she will also be here tomorrow. She is doing push in coaching and will do planning with teachers tomorrow.

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We have our Scholastic Ready 4 Reading coach on site today. She was here yesterday and she will also be here tomorrow. She is doing push in coaching and will do planning with teachers tomorrow.

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Some teachers are running with GRR strategies in their classrooms and planning on doing instructional rounds so everyone can visit other classrooms to see how someone else is doing it.

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For the first time in our district, we're hiring literacy coaches! We're hoping to expand the coaching position to all of our junior high schools. And then, who knows? Maybe high schools!

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Regular DIBELS progress monitoring has been going well; using the data to guide instruction - what to address in small group, etc.  Work on academic discourse has been going strong - we are on cycle 3 and deepening our culture of collaborative learning.

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Regular DIBELS progress monitoring has been going well; using the data to guide instruction - what to address in small group, etc.  Work on academic discourse has been going strong - we are on cycle 3 and deepening our culture of collaborative learning.

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My team is extremely receptive to just in time coaching and seeing their work‘s effectiveness in students’ progress!

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We met as a leadership team, reviewed data, and concluded that we need to focus on vocabulary. Next step, PD on vocabulary routine.

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Our District Literacy Team is working on a shared definition of literacy for our district.

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Grade level data chats with our Scholastic Reading Coach and our Reading Intervention Teacher happened yesterday!

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Grade level data chats with our Scholastic Reading Coach and our Reading Intervention Teacher happened yesterday!

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We are completing the MOYs

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We've been actively modeling and using Kagan structured discourse strategies and emphasizing the importance of academic vocabulary discourse and discourse in general for ALL learners.

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We continue to assess and meet students at the level of need. In addition, we look to use SOR strategies build strong literacy skills.

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Development of the district literacy team to facilitate the work. This team will be instrumental in coordinating and supporting literacy initiatives across the district, ensuring a consistent and effective approach to literacy instruction for all students.

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Having teachers observe other teachers to see Reading/ phonics lessons

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We continue to assess at the level of need. We want to identify skill deficit and use this data to drive our instructions.

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First meeting was 1/28, full day meeting on 2/17, and will be meeting every two weeks through May starting today. We're focusing on aligning Grade level practices across the district and heading toward defining essential practices by May to drive our PLC work next fall.

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Our K-2 grade level teams are onboard in the implementation of UFLI.

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Observing Getting Reading Right implementation in classrooms has highlighted both progress and challenge. Teachers are thoughtfully reflecting on their instructional practices, identifying necessary adjustments, and stepping into areas that may feel unfamiliar or outside their comfort zones. At the same time, they are grappling with how to effectively support students with diverse processing needs, particularly when learning does not seem to “stick.” Measurable growth has been minimal to no-existent for those children

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Finally!!! Developed a system for consistent progress monitoring :)

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Our literacy coaches are starting to plan out their first year that begins in August! We've never had them in our middle schools, so this is historic!

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Continuing our work toward aligned essential standards district wide. About 60% there and will be meeting again tonight.

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Focused walkthroughs in ensuring teachers stating the sounds correctly.

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A couple of sound valleys have popped up in the classrooms.

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We just had our walkthrough with our LACOE coaches and they were happy with our progress. It validated our teachers hard work. Now we are starting to model literacy strategies for parents at multiple meetings.

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DIBELS Progress Monitoring is going well - guided data analysis (by Reading Specialist) and targeting sub-skills in daily small group instruction based on PM data.