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Brookings district outlines districtwide literacy overhaul guided by South Dakota framework
Summary
Brookings School District officials told the school board they are aligning curriculum and teacher training with the South Dakota literacy framework and the science of reading, using MTSS grant supports and districtwide progress monitoring to improve early literacy outcomes.
Superintendent Dr. Schultz and district literacy staff told the Brookings School board Wednesday that the district is implementing a systematic, research-based literacy strategy intended to raise reading outcomes from pre-K through 12.
The plan draws on the South Dakota literacy framework and prioritizes “intentional, systematic, and explicit reading instruction,” said Corey Davis, the district’s literacy coordinator and reading intervention lead. "We must implement evidence based methods that support strong reading instruction," Davis said.
The literacy work is anchored in a district plan created last May and supported by an MTSS grant that brought Compass learning specialists to coach teachers, officials said. Staff described aligning…
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