Our School Improvement Team examines the needs of our students and channels these resources where they will best help our students. Our main focus is to improve reading, especially in the primary grades where problems can be caught early. All of the first grade students are tested to see what reading strategies they are already using to help them understand the text. Students are chosen to be Reading Recovery students based on strict criteria. They work with the specially trained teacher for half an hour a day.
Students have follow-up work every day that is to be done at home with an adult.
Good attendance and support from home are important to the student's success. Adjunct Teachers are experienced teachers who support our students in a variety of ways. Our adjunct teachers work in primary classrooms. They help test students' abilities, meet with teachers to decide which students need help, and work directly with students. An adjunct teacher might work with an individual student, a small group, or co-teach the whole class with the classroom teacher.