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Web Elementary principal outlines literacy overhaul as iRead and OG scores rise
Summary
Carolyn Ray, principal of Web Elementary, told the Franklin Community School Corp board the school shifted to a unified intervention team and tighter tiered instruction; staff reported a 55.7% second-grade iRead pass rate, an 88% third-grade pass rate and a 68% reduction in behavior calls after schedule and grouping changes.
Carolyn Ray, principal of Web Elementary, told the Franklin Community School Corp school board that the school reorganized its intervention staffing to group students by instructional need rather than by special-education or Title label, and that the change is producing measurable gains.
"We were going to really just have an intervention team," Ray said, introducing Mrs. Sandre Hasslam (Title I instructor) and Mrs. Emily Flack (literacy coach). She described moving from larger groups of four to six students down to two- or one-on-one groupings for targeted instruction, using Orton-Gillingham phonics for word-recognition work.
Ray provided student-level examples and…
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