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Board hears literacy plan; teachers recommend Functional Phonics for K–5, district plans FastBridge screening for K–3
Summary
District staff told the Little Falls school board they plan to use FastBridge as a K–3 screener for 2024–25, will submit a local literacy plan to MDE by June 15, and reported a teacher committee recommendation (20–0) to move forward with Functional Phonics for K–5; LETRS professional development will phase in over two years.
Chris Dobis, who presented the literacy update, told the Little Falls school board the district plans to partner with FastBridge as the new screening tool for kindergarten through third grade beginning in 2024–25 while it waits for state guidance on screening tools for grades 4–12.
Dobis said the district will submit a local literacy plan to the Minnesota Department of Education by June 15, and that the plan will need to include more detailed reporting under recent legislative language. He described a two-phase professional-development rollout: LETRS training in a large Phase 1 that will touch roughly 88 staff members and a…
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