Ignite Reading

🛎️ Webinar Alert 🛎️ Join our free event, and learn how schools across the U.S. are giving multilingual learners the tools they need to succeed as fluent 📖 readers. Educators from schools in Virginia and Massachusetts will join Ignite Reading's Erin Johnson to share how they've added 1:1 intensive differentiated instruction right into the school day. https://lnkd.in/efeayg87 #MultilingualLearners #EnglishLanguageLearners #ELLs #MLLs #Education

🤔 What do students think of foundational reading skills tutoring? 🤔 Teacher Learning Coach Rashida Bellard-Frank says, "Kids are loving it!" at Ignite Reading partner Goose Creek CISD in Baytown, Texas. "Students enjoy working with a real person with purposeful lessons that hold their attention," Bellard-Frank told us. Thanks to Superintendent Randal O'Brien, Ed.D and the whole team at Goose Creek CISD for sharing their students' literacy journey with us. #TexasEducation #TexasSchools #HighImpactTutoring #HighDosageTutoring 

🤩 The readers in Milford Public Schools have blown us away. 🤩 These 1st and 2nd graders are averaging more than four weeks of reading progress for every week of instruction from their Ignite Reading tutors. They're quadrupling the expected rate in a traditional classroom! Thank you to Superintendent Kevin McIntyre and your team for this sneak peek of readers at work.

Did you set your ⏰ for our free Education Week webinar later today? There's still time to sign up to hear educators from around the U.S. share how they have used Ignite Reading's 1:1 intervention to close foundational reading skills gaps. #EdLeadership #Education #K12Education #Webinar

I attended the National School Boards Association's CUBE conference in Vegas this week to talk about my favorite thing in the world – teaching kids to read. I had the great pleasure of talking about my friend Kareem Weaver's incredible film, The Right to Read, with a fantastic literacy champion, Almudena G. Abeyta, Ed.D., superintendent of Chelsea Public Schools in MA. The Right to Read tells the story of how one amazing teacher I worked with, Sabrina Causey, used a structured literacy approach to skyrocket the reading proficiency of students at the lowest-performing school in Oakland, CA. We administered a baseline assessment to all the students, and it revealed that almost all the kids were either ½ year or 1 ½ school years behind where they should be. We grouped the kids according to the baseline data and then met with them in small groups for 15 minutes daily and taught them to read using Walpole & McKenna’s Differentiated Instruction (DI). Within two weeks, we started seeing initial results. When COVID hit, instead of stalling students’ progress, the same approach achieved outstanding results over video. We knew we were onto something big. This approach is being used today in Chelsea, and Almi shared the incredible gains her first graders, especially multilingual learners and students with individualized education plans, have made as a result of our just-in-time intervention. The Right to Read is now available to watch for free. I promise it will leave you galvanized! https://lnkd.in/geGVsjGV

Something incredible has been happening in Pittsfield Public Schools. Their number of fluent readers is growing, growing, growing! 🌱 Take a peek as educators from the district share what has been making all the difference for their 1st graders. Want to bring the same foundational reading skills success to your school district? Visit https://lnkd.in/eKqaznvs to learn more about this 1:1 reading intervention. #Educators #Education #EducationForAll #Massachusetts

Year after year, the Georgia Milestones Assessment System test scores show far too few Georgia 3rd graders are reading at proficient levels. The answer to helping Georgia kids is likely hiding in 1st grade classrooms. #Georgia #Education #GMAS #Reading

🌟 Exciting Opportunity Alert! 🌟 Are you an RFP pro with a background in early literacy education, high-dosage tutoring, or educational products and services? Ignite Reading is hiring! Learn more and apply in the link below. #Hiring #Careers #RemoteJobs

When we stopped in to Westfield Public Schools this week, we heard that "confidence is soaring" for readers. Our ❤️s are soaring too. Way to go, kids! Thank you to Superintendent Stefan Czaporowski and the entire team at Southampton Road Elementary for the work you do to support these learners! #Massachusetts #Education #Literacy #Tutoring

Are you headed to the National School Boards Association Council of Urban Boards of Education conference this week? Almudena G. Abeyta, Ed.D., of Chelsea Public Schools will join our own Jessica Reid Sliwerski on stage to explain how 1st grade reading growth has 🚀 since the district partnered with Ignite Reading and share tips to repeat Chelsea's success in your own schools. #NSBA #EdLeadership #Superintents