Reversing the Reading Achievement Gap in Chichester, PA: Data-Driven Assessment

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Learn how the Chichester School District in Boothwyn, PA, closed the achievement gap in reading with a unified assessment system that motivates students to engage in daily independent reading in school and at home. After one year, higher-poverty first-graders outperformed higher-income students in other schools. Examine results and identify how to increase student achievement and proficiency levels on high-stakes tests with implementation of this saturation model of success-level reading. Learn about sustainable strategies highlighting internal and external support (school, home, community), ongoing, intensive, data-driven staff development and curricular integration to facilitate and increase students’ lifelong reading and learning.

Presenter:
Steven R. Marrone, Title I Assessments and Grants Coordinator, Chichester School District, Boothwyn, PA