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Tangent Elementary reports enrollment gains, keeps literacy central to strategy
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Tangent Elementary principal Gretchen Carter said the school has increased kindergarten enrollment and is focusing staff time on early literacy interventions, PBIS and math number sense. The school cited constrained staffing — notably a vacant instructional coach — as a challenge this year.
Tangent Elementary reported enrollment growth and a strong, schoolwide focus on early literacy, social‑emotional learning and number sense, principal Gretchen Carter told the board.
Carter said Tangent’s core priority is literacy and described a staffing approach that funnels staff into early grades each morning so every student receives targeted intervention in reading. “Our kindergarten is twice as big as it was last…
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