Facing lower ACT Aspire reading scores, Bryant Public Schools of Bryant, Arkansas, adopted Lexia® PowerUp Literacy®, an Adaptive Blended Learning program that accelerates literacy gains for students in grades 6–12.
Bryant officials sought a solution that would help students in grades 6–9 improve their reading and grammar levels. The district was seeking a new way to manage timely literacy intervention across all of its secondary schools. This mission aligned with Arkansas’ Reading Initiative for Student Excellence (R.I.S.E.), a statewide reading campaign focused on community partners, parents, and teachers establishing the importance of reading in homes, schools, and communities.
They found what they were looking for in PowerUp. PowerUp provides systematic and timely intervention tools for teachers.
The lost instructional time due to the pandemic was a motivating factor for adopting PowerUp, which is helping the district close literacy gaps across all four grade levels (grades 6–9).
And the results? Currently, Bryant Middle School’s sixth grade team has the highest PowerUp usage across all groups in the district. Bethel Middle Schools’ seventh grade students had the highest number of students who met their Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) winter test growth goals. In fall 2021, just 43% of students met their growth requirements. By the winter test, 57% met their growth. Per the district, the sixth grade students showed a 16% increase on the state-standardized ACT Aspire Reading test from April 2021 to April 2022.
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