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Strong Planning, Coaching, and Implementing with Fidelity– A Blended Learning Success Story

Education Elements

As soon as you enter Vogel Elementary School, you are greeted with large smiles. In the 2021-2022 school year, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) identified Vogel Elementary as a campus that qualified for a school action. The reason? These results made them eligible for the School Action Fund (SAF) Cycle 6 grants.

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Georgia Principal Wins Curriculum Associates’ 2022 Inspire Award

eSchool News

February 17, 2022— Curriculum Associates has named Jamilah Hud-Kirk, principal of Fountain Elementary in Clayton County Public Schools in Forest Park, GA, as the recipient of its 2022 Inspire Award. This includes 13 years as principal at Fountain Elementary, where she currently serves more than 600 students in Grades pre-K–5.

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New Research from Curriculum Associates: Student Achievement Shows Concerns and Bright Spots in Recovery—More Students Are Behind in Phonics but Some Schools Are Exceeding Expectations

eSchool News

The first report, The State of Student Learning in 2022 , analyzes reading and mathematics data gathered from nearly two million Grades 1–8 students during the 2021–2022 school year via the edtech company’s i-Ready Assessment tool. KEY FINDINGS. Recovery is occurring, with student learning in some areas approaching pre-pandemic levels.

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PROOF POINTS: Controversies within the science of reading

The Hechinger Report

Twenty years after the reading panel’s report, a second meta-analysis came out in 2022 with even fresher studies but arrived at the same conclusion. A third meta-analysis was presented at a poster session of the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading.

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Louisiana Department of Education Rates Lexia Reading Core5 as Highest Tier of Efficacy

eSchool News

10, 2022) – The personalized literacy solution Lexia® Core5® Reading (Core5) from Lexia® Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, has received the highest rating of Tier 1 from the Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE). A committee of Louisiana educators reviews the materials. BOSTON (Feb.

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OPINION: It’s time. Let’s use different ways of teaching children to read

The Hechinger Report

Only 53 percent of teacher education programs “provide sufficient coverage of early reading components,” the National Council on Teacher Quality found in their 2020 review of elementary teacher training programs. Related: Retraining an entire states’ elementary teachers in the science of reading.

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PROOF POINTS: ‘Right-to-read’ settlement spurred higher reading scores in California’s lowest performing schools, study finds

The Hechinger Report

The state initially agreed to give an extra $50 million to 75 elementary schools with the worst reading scores in the state to improve how they were teaching reading. However, before the courts resolved that legal question, the litigants settled the case in 2020. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift The settlement itself was noteworthy.

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