Reading Recovery students and staff at Mission West Elementary School planted a tree on their school grounds to help mark the program’s 15th anniversary. Pictured with students are (back): Nancy Krainz, Lucil Monte-Torres, Stephanie Cenegy and Fanny Agudelo
Fort Bend Independent School District’s Reading Recovery Program is celebrating 15 years – and Descubriendo la Lectura is celebrating 10 years – of enhancing literary skills among young people. Since its existence in FBISD, the Reading Recovery / Descubriendo la Lectura program has served more than 8,612 first-grade students who have had difficulty in learning to read and write. Bend Independent School District
“Reading Recovery has an impressive success rate, with 90 percent of former first-grade students meeting the standards for the third-grade reading component of the TAKS test in 2009,” said Cathy Duvall, FBISD Reading Recovery teacher leader. “That percentage represents eight percent of the district’s passing rate. The figures alone prove that the program works and is making a significant improvement in student reading skills.”
The program recently gained recognition for its outstanding service to students during the Texas Woman’s University Reading Recovery / Early Literacy Conference in Dallas. TWU officials cited FBISD’s success at providing intensive tutorials to struggling readers to accelerate their literacy learning so that they can read at the same level as their peers and work independently in their regular classrooms.
To celebrate this anniversary year, RR/DLL program staff will host numerous campus and district-wide events throughout the school year. In October, RR/DLL teachers began donating picture books, some in English and Spanish, to their elementary school libraries for all students to enjoy. Some of the book titles include: “Harry and the Lady Next Door” by Gene Zion, “Danny the Dinosaur” by Syd Hoff, “Biscuit Goes to School” by Alyssa Satin Capucilli, and “Go Away, Dog” by Joan L. Nodset.
On Jan. 7, RR/DLL program officials will host a Reunion Reception at the FBISD Annex, 3119 Sweetwater Blvd, from 4-6 p.m. to honor former and current RR/DLL students, teachers and other program participants. In May, graduation ceremonies will take place.
24. November 2009 at 9:00 pm
FS who can argue with your logic?
24. November 2009 at 8:43 pm
I find your posts on the inner workings of school politics fascinating factually.
24. November 2009 at 7:24 pm
Oh, I see. No actual, authentic feedback regarding my commentary. Oh, well, seems as if I am talking to myself on this particular topic. Well, now, this topic gets a pass without any authentic debate. No other pro, con, or otherwise with the exception of my au contrair, mon ami as it relates to the topic.
22. November 2009 at 1:12 pm
calvin did I strike an educrat nerve?
22. November 2009 at 9:30 am
Factually & Patriot, I often wonder if “conman” is saying all those that work in schools are “educrats” or if he is making a distinction between those that make decisions, like the one he is blaming the teachers for? If so then we are to assume he is criticizing the boss again, supt. Jenney, the most highly paid supt. in our districts history (he gets more than the gov), but is also the leader with the greatest debt load in our history (for feeding the district vendors), two consecutive record budget deficits, while pushing cuts to the academies so that he can build his $30 million dollar duplicate “global taj mahal” on the taxpayers backs (some call it Jenny’s “folly”). If this is the case and our non-friend is calling Mr. Jenney, who makes these decisions, an “educrat” then I would have to say he is right on that measure, but if he is using this as another attempt to attack classroom level instructors who do not take part in such decisions, then I would have to say we are hearing more of the same partisan rancor that he always spews in here in defense of the “special interest” crony-boyz.
22. November 2009 at 8:32 am
Descubriendo la Lectura is the bilingual program. My post is on topic as usual and addresses “special intrest” groups and the educrats waste of our tax $s.
Why do we even need a bi;ingual program? Its just more waste like other “special interest” program that keeps our focus off educating the majority of the students.
If you’re truly interested in “fund raising” as one poster claimed “special intrest” programs to attract federal $s is a full time job for school administrators instead of educating students.
22. November 2009 at 7:33 am
Oh so it’s Mr. Factually? Only relevent in an educrat way perhaps…
22. November 2009 at 1:43 am
The very great majority of students arrive on a bus, Mr. Con. Whatever point you are dimly insinuating, does not address Mr. Factually in any way, nor does it address the article.
22. November 2009 at 1:34 am
Whatever point that you are trying to make has no relevance to my commentary and does not answer the question that I posed.
21. November 2009 at 8:30 am
One should hope that admin doesn’t allow the “special interests” groups such as bi-lingual to receive funding to the detriment of the majority of students.
One recent report showed waste in the school breakfast programs because students were too lazy to get up on time to eat. The educrat’s solution? Cater the breakfast to their student’s desk. Is this what we want to pay teacher’s to do, or are we going to hire teacher’s aides to do this?…more awesome educrat thinking.
20. November 2009 at 8:31 pm
Impressive success with “all the children” or just the ones who exhibited progress and were thus kept in the program?
Does this 15 year celebratory event of a “very expensive” program include the statistics of those children who were weeded from the program because they did not exhibit progress within a predetermined time frame and were referred on to “Special Education”?
Can someone answer my question, please?
In my opinion, any program which controls which students stay in the program and which students leave the program due to being referred on to another one is bound to show successful statistics without a doubt.
If Reading Recovery no longer operates in this fashion, please correct me.