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Brookings district lays out multi-year literacy overhaul, vows no student left behind
Summary
Superintendent Dr. Schultz and district literacy leaders described a district-wide push to align instruction with the science of reading, expand staff training and use assessment data to target classroom instruction. Board members pressed for regular updates as the program continues.
Brookings School District Superintendent Dr. Schultz told the school board on Wednesday that the district is undertaking a multi-year, research-based effort to improve reading instruction and outcomes for all students.
"Every child in our district deserves a teacher who is able to teach them how to read," Dr. Schultz said, and added that "every teacher deserves to know how to teach children to read." The superintendent said the district is aligning curriculum and professional learning to the South Dakota literacy framework and to “the science of reading.”
District literacy coordinator Corey Davis and Dakota Prairie Elementary Principal Sarah Wavercick presented details of the work that has been under way…
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