Wiseburn trustees hear plan to spend one-time literacy funds on ‘structured literacy’ training and materials

Wiseburn School District officials presented a plan to spend one‑time Literacy Investment Fund and Learning Recovery Emergency Block Grant money on teacher training, targeted curriculum supplements and partial funding for an ELA instructional coach.

District staff said the combined one‑time allocation is estimated at about $162,000. Maggie (staff member) told the board the funds would pay for a Los Angeles County Office of Education training called “Getting Reading Right,” summer training for kindergarten through fifth‑grade teachers and follow‑up cohorts with nearby districts. “This summer, we are gonna be getting started with training in structured literacy,” Maggie said. She described the training as “20 hour training divided … 10 hours worth of 2 hour sessions” and said a private Wiseburn cohort is scheduled for Aug. 18–20.

Why it matters: The district intends to use the short‑term funds to address what staff described as gaps between classroom practice and reading research—often called the…