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Pleasant Run highlights Circle City Readers tutoring and dual-language student poems
Summary
Pleasant Run Elementary showcased Circle City Readers, a high-dosage tutoring program serving K–3 with small-group, four-days-per-week sessions; tutors and students described measurable gains and bilingual poems, and district staff noted partnerships and per-student intervention investment.
At the March board meeting, Pleasant Run Elementary staff brought Circle City Readers tutors and students to demonstrate literacy work underway at the school.
The school's presenter (speaker 10) outlined goals tied to district literacy targets and introduced lead tutors Lakeia Bartlett and Bridget Kennedy. Lakeia Bartlett described Circle City Readers as a high-dosage tutoring program for kindergarten through third grade that uses small groups (3–4 students) for 30-minute sessions, four days per week, with a focus on phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension.
Bartlett and Kennedy said the program launched as a pilot, expanded to 10 elementary schools and now includes Pleasant Run; they invited participating students to read class poems in English and Spanish to the board. One first-grade student said, "My name is Giselle, and I am in first grade. My favorite part of Circle City Readers is that I like when we read about gardens, and I like getting stickers."
Presenters described measurable growth: they said students who needed the highest level of intervention at the start of kindergarten decreased substantially by year's end and that every student in the program at Pleasant Run demonstrated measurable literacy growth across the year. District staff thanked the Circle City Readers team and noted funding and strong school partnership as drivers of success.
The board praised the student presentations and the partnership model; presenters said the program receives a mix of grant funding and city support and that the city and county have sustained expansion since a small pilot began in 2023.
What's next: Pleasant Run will continue to collect outcome data and the district will monitor how Circle City Readers integrates with tiered support systems and the dual-language instructional plans.
