Facing lower ACT Aspire reading scores, leaders at Bryant Public Schools of Bryant, Arkansas, adopted Lexia® PowerUp Literacy®, an Adaptive Blended Learning program proven to accelerate literacy gains for students in grades 6–12.
Bryant administrators wanted a solution that could help provide foundational literacy skills with age-appropriate intervention for students in grades 6–9. The district also needed a new way to manage timely literacy intervention across all of its secondary schools and align 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.
With Power Up, educators gained timely progress data and the insight needed for systematic and relevant intervention. Data could then be seen at student, class, and schoolwide levels.
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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