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Instructional coach outlines schoolwide literacy push at Virgil Grissom Elementary
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Kelly Houston, the instructional coach at Virgil Grissom Elementary, told the North Scott Community School District board the school is building on LETTERS training and the Iowa State Comprehensive Literacy Plan with a word-of-the-week program, family reading challenges and a new caregiver resource hub.
Kelly Houston, instructional coach at Virgil Grissom Elementary, told the North Scott Community School District board the school is expanding its literacy work after strong assessment results.
"We had over 97% of our third through sixth graders proficient in English language arts on ISASP," Houston said, and added the school’s median student growth percentile was 73. She framed current efforts as sustaining high proficiency while closing gaps for students “on the bubble.”
Houston described multi-year professional development using LETTERS — Language Essentials for Teachers…
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