Edina City Council — Transcript

Monday, February 26, 2024

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Edina Schools Reports Major Gains in New Literacy Program

K-12 Literacy Program Outcomes and Data

Comprehensive Literacy Development from Early Childhood to Middle School

Community Partnerships and Funding for Educational Initiatives

Notable Quotes (8)

we are here to just show you our partnership with the an col schools how we have worked with the United public schools to bring together um our work and our funding to help meet reality in our school so that we can bring our students the best possible education that they deserve and our teachers the professional development that they need

Introductory Speaker [0:16]
Update on Literacy Initiatives and Read Act Implementation

we came early understanding that balance litery whole language was a problem and really being able to look at Str literacy and trying to make sure that we gave teachers and students the tool they needed to succeed

State Legislator/Advocate [1:49]
Update on Literacy Initiatives and Read Act Implementation

the read app um has many different components but it's a 92 million Investments and we are the such for starts febrary 12 um I don't know anyy but I'm really excited about hopefully getting 30 million more it's going to be my ass for reap this year

State Legislator/Advocate [2:01]
Update on Literacy Initiatives and Read Act Implementation

currently has over 300 teachers who are already inol we have cor finished all eight which is 144 hours the of about 25 teachers and now we have K3 already in and we're seeing an impact on students already which is really exciting

Literacy Initiatives Director [8:20]
Update on Literacy Initiatives and Read Act Implementation

when you think about early childhood and the um development of early childhood teachers there is a very very strong focus on Child Development the cognitive development that's there's very um less focus on emergent learning skill literacy and numeracy

Early Childhood Director [12:35]
Update on Literacy Initiatives and Read Act Implementation

we used to think that there are many ways to teach reading and now we know recent brain scans that there's really one way that's sequence

Elementary Lead [26:45]
Update on Literacy Initiatives and Read Act Implementation

research tells us we have to give that intervention five times a week at 30 minutes dose we're talking medical

Middle School Student Support Admin [35:05]
Update on Literacy Initiatives and Read Act Implementation

what you're looking at right now over here on the left is kindergarten over here on the right and what this is this winter Trend data from okay so we have over in 2021 over see 2021 we had 59% in January 59% of our gardeners were in that's the 5% last year during this time it 76% and just this year in January we are now in% in three years this is significant this is why we the work right it's landing on kids

Literacy Initiatives Director [39:41]
Update on Literacy Initiatives and Read Act Implementation

Ordinances & Resolutions (2)

Read ActLegislation

State policy mandating changes in literacy instruction and investment.

Comprehensive Read ActLegislation

The detailed implementation framework for the state's literacy policy.

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