Vancouver School District is working with 2 teams in CR4YRs. There is interest in other departments in using the Spiral of Inquiry in examining other educational areas and issues. Our district is also supporting Collaborative Inquiry within schools which has been growing the past two years.
This September, we are have 58 schools in our district that have adopted the VSB Early Intervention Model. Presently, we have over 60 Reading Recovery Teachers trained or in training to meet the needs of our most at risk students and small group intervention (4X4) with many other students. From our data, we are observing growth in our struggling readers/learners as we follow cohorts of students up to grade three.
Keep Calm and Teach Kindergarten and Grade One workshop series of 4 sessions have been well received by many new and beginning teachers to these grades. Each teacher is given a professional resource: Literacy Beginnings: A Prekindergarten Handbook by Gay Su Pinnell and Irene C. Fountas, What Every Kindergarten Teacher Needs to Know: About Setting Up and Running a Classroom by Margaret Berry Wilson and Reading with Meaning: Teaching Comprehension in Primary Grades by Debbie Miller.
Peter H. Johnson, author of "Choice Words - How our language affect children's learning" and "Opening Minds - Using Language to Change Lives" will be presenting on Friday, April 24, 2015 in Vancouver.
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