Reading Recovery is a highly effective short-term intervention of one-to-one instruction for the lowest-achieving first graders. Individual students receive a half-hour lesson each school day for 12 to 20 weeks with a specially trained Reading Recovery teacher. As soon as students can meet grade-level expectations and demonstrate that they can continue to work independently in the classroom, their lessons are discontinued, and new students begin individual instruction.
Reading Recovery’s one-to-one instruction delivers measurable results in weeks not years. After a full 12 to 20-week series of lessons, more than 66% of students meet grade-level expectations.
For information on this shared-cost initiative click here.
To enroll a teacher in the Reading Recovery training, contact Geri Jacobs at gjacobs@aea11.k12.ia.us by June 5, 2009.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Check List Item for Your District Handbooks
As part of the requirement for districts to meet compliance with Chapter 103-Corporal Punishment regulations, the following statement from the Iowa Department of Education should be in district handbooks annually. Click here for a Word doc of this notice.
This text was prepared and approved by the Department.
Notice: Corporal Punishment, Restraint, and Physical Confinement and Detention
State law forbids schools employees from using corporal punishment against any student. Certain actions by school employees are not considered corporal punishment. Additionally, school employees may use “reasonable and necessary force, not designed or intended to cause pain” to do certain things, such as prevent harm to persons or property.
State law also places limits school employees’ abilities to restrain or confine and detain any student. The law limits why, how, where, and for how long a school employee may restrain or confine and detain a child. If a child is restrained or confined and detained, the school must maintain documentation and must provide certain types of notice to the child’s parent.
[If school or AEA has additional policies or procedures, briefly describe them here].
If you have any questions about this state law, please contact your school. The complete text of the law and additional information is available on the Iowa Department of Education’s Web site: www.iowa.gov/educate.
Acceptable Use Policies Becoming A Relic?
As the use of the Internet is becoming more central to the educational curriculum, the nature of Acceptable Use Polices (AUPs) is becoming an outdated concept. Click here to read more on this issue.
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