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Spotlights

Click here for a list of all the sites holding training classes this year.

Please go this link to read about an Irving Reading Recovery Teacher of the Year!

Click here to read a letter from a former Reading Recovery student from Pampa ISD!

Click here to read about Reading Recovery in the Sherman ISD weekly news

DLL was featured in the “Real Programs for Real People” section of the Committee for Education Funding Hotsheet for May (see this link). The Hotsheet is distributed to all 535 House and Senate members’ offices on Capitol Hill, plus 100 CEF organizational members.

Five TWU trainers provide on-going professional support for 43 training sites, districts or consortia that train teachers in Reading Recovery. Support includes assistance with teaching, project implementation and annual evaluation of student outcome data.  The quality of this training is measured in the success rate of the students served.

• 7336 first grade students, who were initially in the lowest-achieving 20% of their classrooms, received a full series of Reading Recovery lessons. 
• 700 + DLL students received a full series of lessons

In 2007-2008, the TWU Reading Recovery project hosted their first international trainer from the Canadian Institute and the Ministry of Education in Nova Scotia.The 2007-2008 Reading Recovery teacher leader class hosted teacher leaders from Houston and Washington State. 
Eight teachers Chicago, Iowa, Illinois, California, and Texas completed 24 graduate credit hours in the Bridging class for Descubriendo la Lectura, the only research based early literacy intervention for Bilingual students.

TWU hosted more than 1,500 educators from Colorado, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington at the 17th annual Early Literacy/Administrators/Reading Recovery Institute This is one of the largest institutes in the southwest region of the United States.

Sixty-five educators attended Biliteracy Summer Institute at TWU, June 26-27, 2008.

The TWU Reading Recovery center is affiliated with the North American Trainers Group of the Reading Recovery Council of North America.  This year, Anne Simpson and Betsy Kaye, TWU trainers were elected to the national Board of Directors.
 
Congressional Record (June 5, 2008):  U.S. Congressmen Nick Lampson entered his favorable impressions of the RR/DLL work being accomplished based on his observations in the Fort Bend (Texas) I.S.D.

What Works Clearinghouse (WWC), a branch of the United States Department of Education (USDE) and the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), released a 3-year independent review of the experimental research on Reading Recovery in March 2007. This authoritative, independent assessment clearly establishes that Reading Recovery is an effective intervention based on scientific evidence.