School Goal One
How can we guide and support our students to develop the literacy skills they need to read and communicate effectively in order to reach their potential as learners?
- District Literacy Assessment (DLA) data (completed school-wide in May every year);
- Student self-reflections completed in Jan and June 2024 by students who participated in the reading intervention; and
- Follow-up interviews with a smaller number of students conducted by our literacy team members to gather more in-depth feedback.
First Peoples Principles of Learning
The Literacy Goal needs to ensure that:
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Learning is embedded in memory, history and story.
- School-wide use of explicitly taught reading/writing strategies by focusing on one strategy for each grade from the District Literacy Assessment resources with an accompanying graphic organizer to be used across subject areas.
- Specific focus on improving decoding skills for a select group of emerging readers through targeted small-group reading support for 30 minutes for 3 or 4 days/week.
District Literacy Assessment Result
District Literacy Assessment Result
District Literacy Assessment
Results to come in the fall of 2024.
Over the 2023-24 year, we will track progress on our initiatives identified in this year’s plan. More specifically:
- We will track progress on our school-wide use of strategies by looking at DLA scores across all grades and comparing yearly assessment results;
- We will implement a class-wide reading and spelling intervention with a select number of divisions in 2023/24 with the goal of expanding the program as we build capacity among the staff;
- We will monitor the class-wide reading intervention by gathering our literacy team for regular monthly meetings throughout the school year and continue to build teacher capacity by providing professional learning to staff on pro-d days and monthly staff meetings; and
- We will monitor the progress of emerging readers using district assessment tools.
Summary learning, based on evidence gathered over the year, will provide us with key learnings to guide next steps for the 2024-25 school year and beyond.
