It's L.I.T. (Literacy Is Transforming)
Building literacy skills is crucial in helping ensure lifelong success for every student. Dallas ISD is taking a future-focused comprehensive approach to ensure students have the foundational skills they need.
Dallas ISD is using the following strategies as part of a comprehensive effort to get students reading and writing at grade level.Project R.E.A.D
Dallas ISD is in the initial stages of an exciting initiative that will invest quite heavily in our libraries over the coming months and years. As part of a partnership with Apple, this library redesign initiative, titled Project R.E.A.D., will see libraries evolved into exciting learning laboratories for students to engage in research, exploration, application, and design. While these evolved library spaces will serve as a hub for experiential learning, they will remain firmly grounded in the core mission to spark academic curiosity through cultivating a love of reading.Reading Academies
Dallas ISD is optimizing the implementation of the Texas Reading Academies, a state legislative requirement, to drive long-term growth and target closing the achievement gap for its Black and Latino students. The Reading Academies equip teachers and administrators with the evidence-based methods that best support the science of teaching reading. By developing skilled and effective educators, we ensure students have access to high-quality reading and writing instruction, thereby positively impacting student literacy achievement.Summer Breeze
The district’s summer school programming, Summer Breeze, has been redesigned with a strong focus on literacy instruction. Through Novel Engineering, students are reading a book where they will work with peers to create a solution for the problem the character is experiencing in the book. This interdisciplinary approach to instruction starts with an interesting and relevant book and centers reading as the base for all Science, Social Studies, and Math learning.Disciplinary literacy
Dallas ISD will build in foundational and critical reading and writing skills across all content areas, including math and science. This will teach students how to read, write, think and discuss in ways that are particularly to those different content areas.
Mitigating learning loss district wide
In addition to these targeted ways to boost student literacy skills, Dallas ISD is committed to investing up to $100 million over two years to mitigate learning loss in all subject areas.
This investment include:
Frequently Asked Questions
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