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Virginia Beach schools detail literacy screening results, interventions and assessment plans
Summary
Dr. Danielle Colucci and Acting Director Abigail Daughtry told the school board the division uses multiple assessments (SOL, VALS, NWEA MAP) to guide instruction; 8,160 students currently have division reading plans and targeted interventions include 2.5 hours/week for high-risk second graders.
Dr. Danielle Colucci, the division's chief academic officer, and Abigail Daughtry, acting director of student services, briefed the Virginia Beach City Public Schools board on the district's literacy-assessment system and how the data guide instruction.
The presenters framed a balanced assessment model that combines criterion-referenced Standards of Learning (SOL) tests, the Virginia Language and Literacy Screening System (VALS) for early screening and the norm-referenced NWEA MAP for national comparisons. Colucci said the division aligns instruction to the Virginia Literacy Act and science-based reading research and uses multiple data sources ‘‘to make sure we are not missing anything with our children's reading skills and their…
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