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FWISD Students Achieve Significant Gains In Reading Levels
Fort Worth, Texas - At the Tuesday, February 13 meeting of the Fort Worth ISD Board of Education trustees learned that student reading levels far outpaced expectations for the first semester of the 2017-2018 school year. Overall, FWISD students using the Achieve3000® reading program at elementary, middle, and high school exceeded their expected growth in reading levels by one and a half times with the greatest gains at the elementary level.
Achieve 3000 is a differentiated literacy tool implemented by the District during the 2016-2017 school year. Achieve3000® empowers teachers to accelerate their students reading comprehension, fluency, and vocabulary learning through grade-appropriate lessons tailored to each individual student’s reading level.
During the fall 2017 semester,
- Students whose teachers were consistent in using the program and who completed at least 40 reading activities during the fall semester exceeded their expected reading growth by more than two and a half times.
- Students who scored 75% or greater on their reading activities also exceeded their expected reading growth by more than two and a half times.
- During the fall semester, 38% of FWISD students logged in to Achieve 3000 after school hours.
A number of schools were highlighted for strong implementation where every teacher teaches reading – reading in language arts, reading in science, and reading social studies.
The influential organization Center for Research and Reform in Education (CRRE) at Johns Hopkins University School of Education has recognized Achieve3000® for providing “strong evidence” of efficacy for secondary students and “promising evidence” of efficacy for elementary students with the largest effect size at the secondary level.
Achieve3000® complements Fort Worth ISD’s 100 X 25 FWTX initiative efforts, which has set a goal of ensuring that 100 percent of third-graders are reading on grade level or above by 2025. Dr. Scribner is partnering with Mayor Betsy Price and BNSF Executive Chairman Matt Rose to lead the community-wide Read Fort Worth initiative. This collective impact strategy engages parents, grandparents, and caregivers as well as volunteers from the city’s business sector, higher education, non-profit organizations, and the faith-based community.
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