Board Forums: Ideas on School Redesign

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The First R Reading
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Can You Read This?

• I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty
  uesdnatnrd waht I was rdgnieg.
• The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid.
• Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde
  Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer inwaht oredr the
  ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng
  is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit
  pclae.
• The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll
  raed it wouthit a porbelm.
• Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed
  ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
• Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas! thought slpeling
  was ipmorantt!

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Kansas Education Shines
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What one year increases did we see in reading?
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What one year increases did we see in reading?
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What one year increases did we see in reading?
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What one year increases did we see in reading?
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What one year increases did we see in reading?
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What five year increases did we see in reading?
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What five year increases did we see in reading?
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What five year increases did we see in reading?
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What five year increases did we see in reading?
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What five year increases did we see in reading?
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5 Year Reading GapNarrows For Most
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Standard of Excellence Reading
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Standard of Excellence Reading
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• Any system is designed to produce exactly what
  it produces.

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What Else Do We Know?

• By the end of 1st grade, children having
  difficulty learning to read begin to feel less
  positive about themselves than when they started
  school
• By middle school, children who read well read at
  least 10 million words during the school year
  while children with reading difficulties read
  fewer than 100,000 words during the same period

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What Else Do We Know?

• Three-year-olds watch about 30 hours of
  television a week by the time a child graduates
  from high school, s/he will have spent more time
  in front of the TV than in class
• A longitudinal study of 407 students found that
  74 of the children whose disability in reading
  was first identified at nine years of age or
  older continued to read in the lowest quintile
  throughout their middle and high school years

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• Failure to develop basic reading skills by age 9
  predicts a lifetime of illiteracy.
• Reid Lyon

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What Else Do We Know?

• By putting in place well-designed evidence based
  early identification, prevention and early
  intervention programs in our public schools,
  data show that the 20 million children with
  reading failure could be reduced by two-thirds.
  
• Reid Lyon

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Word Recognition
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Instead of using the word problem, try
substituting the word opportunity.
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Goal 2005
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is
impossible to fail. If youre going after Moby
Dick, take along the tarter sauce.
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When opportunity knocks, invite it to stay for
dinner.
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