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Hiawatha board to submit school improvement plan focusing on structured literacy
Summary
District staff asked the board to approve and submit a school improvement action plan prioritizing structured literacy (Science of Reading/LETRS), reporting 35 teachers enrolled in initial training and a January submission deadline for the action plan.
District staff on Monday asked the Hiawatha School District Board of Education to approve an action plan that centers on structured literacy as the district’s primary school-improvement focus.
Laurie (district staff, literacy lead) told the board structured literacy aligns classroom instruction with the research known as the Science of Reading and stressed that “if we are following and we're teaching with the practices of structured literacy, then that means everything that we're…
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