After seeing a decrease in reading scores from COVID-19, the Kansas Department of Education is funding new education for teachers, which Halstead schools are welcoming. Marcie Carr, the director of student learning at Halstead, said she’d seen the dip in scores herself among students. Carr said, during the pandemic, learning was interrupted as schools switched to remote learning, and this interruption created the dip in scores schools are seeing now. Carr said the district looked at scores to fill in gaps where students were struggling and is using the new education many staff members received to better educate students on reading. The staff have gone to “Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling” (LETRS) trainings, which the state education department funded. “The district made a huge commitment to commit our time to that professional development to ensure that instructors are aligned and implementing those best practices into their instruction,” Carr said.
Source: Harvey County Now
