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Curriculum director outlines how student-investment and early-literacy grants were spent
Summary
Curriculum director reviewed integrated-programs reporting and said district funds were used mainly to hire counselors and support staff, buy evidence-based curricula for early literacy (Frog Street, Gardner's New Alphabet, Secret Stories) and fund tutors and materials for pre-K–3 students.
Tanya Cinco presented the district's integrated-programs expenditures, saying the district reports how state and federal streams were allocated and that a recurring trend is using funds to purchase staff time to directly support students. "We are purchasing people to support our children," she said, and noted that the high-school success student-investment account funded two academic counselors and a social-emotional counselor at Winter Lakes.
She described purchases under the early-literacy grant (Frog Street curriculum for pre-K, phonic interventions such as Gardner's New Alphabet and Secret Stories) and said the district purchased books and a targeted tutor at Lincoln School of Early Learning. Cinco said the University of Florida literacy resource (UFLI) is available at no cost to the district and has been helpful in classroom instruction.
