Suburban Public School
Grades 3-6 • NEW YORK
Student Demographics
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Demonstrated Effectiveness
In her second year with two elementary schools, the literacy specialist supported teachers in shifting away from using a not-research-based approach of level-based running records to using formative student data and grouping students based on need. She helped teachers to monitor progress within groups using various formative assessment data points and supported them with flexible grouping, always focused on goals. The data shows an improvement from beginning to end of the year last year, and the upward trend continued this year.
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Leah provided useful feedback and modeled when asked to, which was very helpful. Because of this support, I was able to provide my students with the support that was needed and challenge those who were ready.
— Teacher
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Our literacy specialist is very informative, and her approach to teaching reading and writing is explicit and simple. When she models, she is right to the point and makes it look so easy.
— Teacher
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Our literacy specialist is very supportive of our work and realistic in terms of goals that we set. She offered practical suggestions that we are implementing.
