Decoding Dyslexia WI Interviews Sturgeon Bay School District on Literacy Changes
Channel: Decoding Dyslexia Wisconsin
Date: 01/11/2021

Literacy leaders in Sturgeon Bay Schools are guiding the change into the Science of Reading and leaving Balanced Literacy behind in order to better serve the students of Sturgeon Bay Schools.  Misty from Decoding Dyslexia WI interviews Reading Specialists, Constance Vogel and Jeanne Schopf, Principal Katy DeVillers, and Ann Semjkal,  Director of Teaching, Learning, and Technology are a part of the team of literacy leaders along with Dr. Danielle Thompson, Transformative Reading Group that is embarking on this daunting challenge.  

The journey will take a minimum of three years as they support developing teacher knowledge through the implementation of Reading Teachers Top Ten Tools, reorganizing their systems and schedules, improving Universal Instruction, and using early reading screening assessments that will help them find the kids that they need to find so they can deliver  systematic, explicit, cumulative, and mulit-model interventions. Using the Simple View of Reading as the theoretical model, they hope to close the reading gap and become a high-performing school district.