Hancock Place Elementary School is a part of the Hancock Place School District, one of the oldest school districts in St. Louis. It is one of the first districts to earn an “AAA” rating (the highest possible) from the Missouri State Department of Education. This elementary school is home to nearly 1,500 pre-K-5 students, all of whom are on free and reduced lunch.
Administrators noticed students were not receiving consistent literacy education. Rather, it depended on the training of their teachers. But successful consistency was strongly preferred. Hancock Place needed a solution.
Principal Dr. Jill Wright recommended Lexia® LETRS® (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) literacy professional learning because she was inspired by how effective her early career training was as part of the Missouri Reading First initiative.
Dr. Wright believed LETRS would work because it is comprehensive professional learning designed to provide early childhood and elementary educators and administrators with deep knowledge to be literacy and language experts in the science of reading.
The results were impressive. Second grade reading scores rose in just four months.
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