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George Elementary principal highlights literacy gains and student goal‑setting
Summary
George Elementary Principal Laura Villafado told the board the school adopted a structured literacy curriculum and used a diagnostic decoding survey (DDS) to identify students needing intervention; she highlighted improved decoding outcomes, goal‑setting work across grades and a student presentation by a second grader.
Laura Villafado, principal at George Elementary, presented the school's improvement work and told the board that a new HMH structured literacy curriculum for kindergarten and first grade and targeted interventions are producing measurable gains.
"I'm Laura Villafado, the principal here at George," she told the board as she described using a diagnostic decoding survey (DDS) to identify decoding gaps and guide interventions. Villafado said the school uses syllabication instruction and…
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