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Volusia launches three‑year Science of Reading rollout for K‑12 teachers, leaders and community partners
Summary
Volusia County Schools on July 29 outlined a three‑year Science of Reading implementation plan that will train leaders, coaches and teachers and mobilize community partners to support literacy K‑12.
Volusia County Schools on July 29 outlined a three‑year Science of Reading implementation plan that district leaders said will train leaders, coaches and teachers and enlist community partners to support literacy improvements from kindergarten through high school.
“I'm Anna Kennedy. I am currently a lecturer at UCF,” the district’s invited literacy expert told the board as she opened the session that the district described as the beginning of a three‑year professional learning rollout. The district said the initiative will combine research‑based instruction, coaching, classroom modeling and community engagement.
District staff described the Science of Reading as a research consensus spanning decades across multiple disciplines; they said the classroom model will pair explicit, systematic phonics instruction with text‑based…
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