Our Success
Clio Area Schools
Our Journey to Reading Success
By Stephen Keskes, Ed.S.
Assistant Superintendent, Clio Area Schools
2018/2019: 21 Teachers and Interventionists across all grade levels and teaching assignments volunteered to spend 3 days of their summer to receive Structured Literacy training through Children’s Choice Initiative. Newly-hired elementary teachers were mandated to attend.
We Collected Data using STAR Early Literacy, STAR Reading, DRA and M-STEP.
2019/2020: 14 more staff members were trained through CCI. These included: Summer School teachers, classroom teachers, all new elementary teachers, more Special Education staff, and paraprofessional staff. During this year, we also had 3 teachers be trained by CCI staff to be trainers of future staff.
We began collecting more STAR, DRA, and M-STEP Data.
What We Discovered
- After 3 years of declining scores in our economically disadvantaged subgroup, our ELA scores for all our students grades 3-8 rose from 47.6% to 49.7%.
- 5th Grade M-STEP Percent Proficiency Rates in Reading grew 5% for that year’s cohort, and an 8% programmatic gain over the previous year’s results.
- Every classroom implementing the program with fidelity grew over one year on the DRA and the STAR Reading Assessments.
- Educators report extremely high efficacy in the area of teaching reading after receiving and implementing the training.
- “Summer Slide” for affected students decreased dramatically.
- High school students with special education needs showed the highest growth in years.
- An increase of parents, who heard of our success, enrolled their children in our district through Schools of Choice to receive our reading instruction and support.
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Contact Info
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