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Erie schools report progress on Chapter 49 structured literacy training; secondary rollout planned
Summary
District officials told the board that structured literacy professional development required under Pennsylvania Chapter 49 is underway: 264 teachers trained in initial cohorts last year, roughly 73 this year, and a secondary-specific rollout planned for next year.
Karen Ryan, the district’s director of educational services, gave the board an update on structured literacy professional development required under Pennsylvania’s Chapter 49.
Ryan said the district has been implementing structured literacy training in multi-year cohorts and described the training as the mechanism to ensure staff hold necessary certifications. “Another way of thinking about it is a multiplication problem,” Ryan told the board, explaining that word recognition and language comprehension must both be taught for reading comprehension to develop.
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