Bridging the Literacy Gaps Through Looping, Learning and Play*
Allowing teachers to stay with classes from one grade to the next to prevent learning loss in grade transition.
Allowing teachers to stay with classes from one grade to the next to prevent learning loss in grade transition.
Preschool, kindergarten, and first-grade students at Mylan Park Elementary School.
Mylan Park Elementary School will pilot a looping program for 60 preschool to kindergarten students. In the looped classrooms, the entire class of students will remain together and have the same teacher the following year. During the pilot, teachers/assistants will have additional time to meet as a professional learning community, and the preschool teachers will serve as “coaches.” It is expected that by Spring of 2022, 70% of targeted students will increase their skill scores on the Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening test.
Collaborative Partners: Monongalia County Schools, Mylan Park Elementary.
Funded by the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation.