8/26/2024

Elevating Secondary Instruction With Aspire Literacy Professional Learning

Challenges:

• Hitting reading intervention goals for students in Tier 2.
• Helping teachers apply the science of reading at the secondary level to address literacy-related gaps.

Solution:

Lexia Aspire® Professional Learning and Lexia® PowerUp Literacy®

Renee Hesson, supervisor of instruction for Caroline County Public Schools, turned to Lexia® to help close literacy gaps and meet intervention reading goals. Her successful solution combined Lexia Aspire Professional Learning for educators and Lexia PowerUp Literacy for students. 

Better Together

Hesson says, “When teachers and students started transferring knowledge and skill, which you don’t often see in a professional learning or program, I knew Lexia was the right solution for our district.”

Hesson chose Lexia Aspire for its unique focus teaching adolescent literacy, backed by the science of reading. With a modular and flexible implementation, Aspire is a professional learning solution designed to enhance the skills of educators, particularly at the secondary level, in applying the science of reading to improve literacy outcomes. 

By training her English teachers in the science of reading with Aspire, Hesson ensured students would have their literacy learning reinforced daily in the classroom.

Hesson highlights the impact, “With Aspire and PowerUp, teachers have the knowledge and resources they need to teach kids not only to learn to read but read to learn, and then apply it.”

Learn what happens when you invest in your educators and check out the infographic to see how Lexia Aspire and PowerUp are transforming literacy instruction in Caroline County.