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Literacy Focus: School Wide Assessment Insights, Trends, and Next Steps
What targeted actions did we take to address our school’s learning focus? To address our school’s learning focus in literacy, staff participated in collaboration days to analyse student learning data and identify students requiring targeted support. We implemented targeted literacy interventions for these students while also adjusting whole-class literacy instruction. A key focus was explicitly…
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Early Reading Intervention Progress Update
What targeted actions did we take to address our school’s learning focus? To address our school’s learning focus with an emphasis on early learners, our primary team, including classroom teachers and learning resource support staff, implemented a targeted assessment and intervention plan. In the fall of 2025, kindergarten and Grade 1 students were assessed…
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Literacy Focus: How Do We Know If Our Efforts Are Making a Difference?
As literacy development is one of our areas of focus for our School Story, it’s important to determine if the literacy interventions listed in our Action Post are making a difference for our learners. We have anecdotal data as well as formal assessments the clearly indicate that our students and staff’s efforts to grow in…
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Literacy Focus Using Data/Assessment to Drive Instruction
Each term of the 2023/2024 school year, our staff completed reading assessments using the Acadience Reading K-6 assessment. Acadience Reading is a universal screening and progress monitoring assessment that measures the acquisition of early literacy skills from Kindergarten through Grade 6. The Acadience Reading measures are brief, informative indicators of foundational early literacy skills. These…