6. Data Driven Planning

Data-Driven Planning

     Identifying specific student needs to help determine how and what to do to help meet those needs, is crucial in changing the tide on literacy levels.  Teachers and administrators need to ensure every minute of instructional time is narrowly focused on growing our students into metacognitive literate productive members of society.  Randolph County already has a reading assessment plan and information gathering system in place.  All students that receive reading EC services are screened with a variety of reading screening measures from the Consortium on Reading Excellence.  This allows EC program specialists to assist teachers in planning for instruction and grouping based on student needs.  For example, I can assist teachers that have students in small group ELA resource classes that show weaknesses in decoding multisyllabic words that should be a part of a Word Identification strategy group.  Students that show weaknesses with predicting word meanings or struggling with grade-level vocabulary should be a part of a Word Mapping strategy group.  This plan will allow teachers and county office-level support staff to work as partners in creating instructional plans that include evidence-based literacy practices.