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Renaissance Charter Academy highlights literacy push, no-phone policy and enrollment gains
Summary
Renaissance Charter Academy leaders told the River Falls School Board they met three annual goals — academic, behavioral and community — including a literacy initiative requiring student choice reading and a no-cell-phone policy that administrators say reduced classroom violations. They also reported modest enrollment growth and new community partnerships.
Jerry, the school counselor at the Renaissance Charter Academy, told the River Falls School Board the school set three overarching goals this year — an academic goal, a behavioral goal and a community goal — and described concrete steps and early results. On academics, he said the school set a modest reading objective: "by each quarter, 100% of students will complete one book of choice," and that ninth- and tenth-grade students used ReadTheory while eleventh- and twelfth-grade students focused on independent-choice reading. Jerry said the school lacks historic…
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